I would prefer keeping it simple. Make a expense entry form, identical to the time entry form. Instead of time entry, use the form to enter:

Project
Task (optional)
ExpenseAmount
ExpenseType (Mileage,PassThrough,Supplies,PerDiem, etc.)
ExpenseDescription
ExpenseCode

The record would need to be associated with a team member and the date of entry.

Also, I don’t track time at the task level, just at the project level. It would be best for us if we could track time at either the project or project/task level.

Thanks again Jason.

Haven’t really given expense tracking any thought – how do you feel that should work from the end user’s view?

I’ve used phpCollab, Netoffice, and recently switched to the Dwins Version. I like the Dwins version…it works..but the time tracking feature is buggy. I agree that it contains a lot of additional features that I don’t plan to use. Several forum members have made some good suggestions and contributed code. But the code is update infrequently, bug fixes sometimes take a while.

My thoughts:

Client Sites
I like the idea of client sites, but I’ve never used this feature and I’m not sure that I will in the future. Other projects handle client access through permissions.

Time and Expense Tracking
Dwins tracks time, but not expenses. A couple of extra user defined fields would be all that is needed to track expenses.
Dwins also tracks some other items, time spent in meetings, work hours and task hours as separate pages. I don’t see the need since this can be handled though specifying a code for the hours.
Additionally, Dwins make too much use of arrays specified in the language files. Some of this data should be put into tables to allow entry from Netoffice.

Permissions
I’m not sure I have ever figured out permissions. A least in Dwins they don’t work the way I expect.

CSS Based Design
I agree that this is a necessary feature.

By the way…I’ve followed some of your comments and modifications in the past. Great work and thanks for being willing to take on this project.

We are currently looking at netoffice and found a good product, there is of course room for improvement. After we realized netoffice development is stopped we are looking at alternatives just in order to get some support.
I’ll keep reading this as it sounds great.
We’ll let you know if we have any new features idea.
The idea of the RSS feed looks good,

regards,
Yannick

Changelog
http://netoffice.dwins.com/modules/news/

I agree with your modifications EXCEPT the client site and support request deletions. My clients like the ability to create tasks themselves and it saves us both alot of time. They also make use of viewing the real-time status of their project as I work on it and the ability to upload project-related documents directly to NetOffice instead of it getting lost in 100s of e-mails. Although the client site needs improvement it’s a great service to have around.

I do agree that NetOffice needs a better workflow and a cleaner, CSS based design. It would be nice if NetOffice could include invoicing functionality too… right now I have to use a seperate app to do all of my invoices and it’s annoying to keep the two in sync. I might wind up backporting the invoice code in PHPCollab 2.5 to NetOffice sometime if the NetOffice project remains stale.

Best of luck!

Kemie

Best of luck.