Nice start, What are you using? I hope an object oriented way of doing it? Do you use JPA?
Manfred Riem [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.manorrock.org/ Founding Java Champion https://java-champions.dev.java.net/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean M. Cox Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:22 PM To: LDS Open Source Software Subject: [Ldsoss] Re: HT and VT Tool Benjamin, I've actually, for the past couple of months, been working on something similar to this. My project is currently called "Quorum Secretary". My plan was to open source it once I got it to a state where the fundamental features of the program were working properly. However, I'm very interested in collaborating on something like this, so I'd be quite willing to make the source code available more immediately. I don't even care if somebody wanted to outright steal it to make a similar sort of free program. This kind of program just needs to be written. (I've been amazed that I can't find the likes of it already available.) I'm currently in a ward that includes family housing for a nearby university. Consequently the comings and goings are frequent, which makes juggling home teaching assignments and things a little tricky. Our EQ president is currently using an Excel spreadsheet to manage things, which is unnecessarily taxing. He had made some noise about designing something with Access, so I determined that if something like that was to be done, it should be done right. (ie. not with Access) The program I'm working on will currently do an initial import of the CSV file put out by the ward directory on the ward website. (However, updating is still on my todo list.) The program, as it now stands, will allow one to manually edit details for individuals and households which are not provided by the CSV file. There is also an "action log" which is a blog-like field for making note of things that occur during presidency visits or noteworthy events. Old versions of records are also retained for the sake of good record-keeping. (My todo list also includes making the UI capable of browsing these records.) The UI for editing companionships is still in a prototype phase. (ie. not functional) You can download the prototype, temporarily, at http://www.theshtick.org/personal/QuorumSecretary.jar The database is a custom design, but I have tried to design the program such that the data storage might be more transparent. I probably haven't succeeded in that completely, but it is something I have in mind as needing to be accomplished. Sean Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone! > > There has been a thread about HT/VT tools on here a while ago. Since nothing new has come up since then (as far as I know) and my ambitions are quite different, I'd like to bring up this topic once again. > > Well, I'll start out with my situation: My ward is some 100 square miles in size and lacks in active home teachers. Each companionship has up to 7 active families and another 10 - 20 less active (up to "hostile") ones. Due to this and some more aspects, the MLS HT module (and more) doesn't really fit our needs. > > (Ideally, open sourcing MLS would solve all our problems, but that doesn't seem to happen anywhere near in the future) > > Right now, I'm working on a little extension allowing extended, individualized reports and a more complex HT assignment and reporting module, allowing goal tracking and warnings for families not having been visited for a certain amount of time etc. > > My first approach would be to hack something down using the exported csv's and JPA (Hibernate) on JSE. > > Since this project might be of use for someone else, I wanted to mention it here. If some more people are interested and willing to help, I would rather start on a JEE basis on JBoss or something like that. > > > Best wishes from Germany, > Benjamin > _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
