[Asterisk-Dev] Open source time card application for Asterisk & then hotel software

[Dave Weis]

I would also be interested in working on this if you are collecting 
addresses to discuss it.

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Christopher Mylonas wrote:

> When developing this, consider that what you mention here can also be used in
> a hotel situation.  Janitors/Cleaning staff indicating that a room is cleaned
> and then the extension is locked so no calls can be made or the room is ready
> for a guest.
>
> Interface this to an existing open source booking system and you start giving
> commercial products like fidelio or caracas the shakes.
>
> Good luck with this.
>
>
> I'm at the moment making my CSTA stack ready for asterisk.  It's written in
> java, and will connect using asterisk-java.  Currently the implementation
> works with Siemens Hipath3000 & Hipath4000 systems, so it should be a good
> piece of software once the initial integration part gets done.
>
> Also a port to C would make sense wouldn't it.
>
>
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Open source time card application for
>> Asterisk
>>
>>
>>
>> Joseph wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:34 -0600, Chuck Bunn wrote:
>>
>>
>> 	Hi,
>>
>>
>> 	I am in the process of developing a time card application that
>>
>> 	integrates with Asterisk and I would like to know if anyone has
>> done
>>
>> 	this and if so can you recommend an open source time card
>> application
>> 	that might reduce the amount of work required to connect it to
>> Asterisk.
>> 	I do not want to reinvent the wheel and write a WEB based time
>> card app,
>>
>> 	I would rather spend my time getting Asterisk to connect to it.
>> I will
>> 	be using LAMP so it will be written in PHP instead of C...
>>
>> 	Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> Do you mean employee time-card? With mysql database this would be very
>>
>> interesting project.
>> Do you have a short description of what it would do?
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for responding. The basic system would work as follows. An
>> employee would call in and would transfer to a menu (either via an
>> operator or via the phone system if no operator is available). Something
>> like press 1 for sales and service press 2 for accounting and press 3 if
>> you are an employee. Upon pressing three the user would be asked to
>> enter their employee ID and password. The system would capture the
>> employee ID , time of day and if available the caller ID from the
>> location they are calling from. When they are finished they would repeat
>> the process thus capturing the finish data for filling out a time card.
>> The usage is a group of field nurses that need an easy way to enter data
>> into there time cards since the Internet is not always available from
>> the locations they call from. Although the caller ID can easily be
>> spoofed this is not as important as capture of the time and employee
>> data for filling out a time card. A second application uses the same
>> theory but for janitors. The caller ID helps confirm they are where they
>> are supposed to be. There are several PHP time cards out there but I am
>> trying to find the best for interfacing with Asterisk. Phase one would
>> be to capture the data to a flat file phase 2 would be to get it into a
>> database, phase three would interface it to an existing LAMP based time
>> card apt and phase 4 would allow for phone access to information stored
>> in the time card such as how many hours worked, hours by day etc. A
>> final phase would interface these to both Peachtree and Quickbooks.
>>
>> I am working on a more definitive outline right now but I wanted some
>> feedback from the development community before doing so, so that I did
>> not reinvent the wheel.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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