I need some alternatives to a specific process.  The process in question
is timesheets.  Our timesheets are Excel spreadsheets, which are
processed as follows:
 
1)  All timesheets are located in the user's home folder.  At the end of
the month, the user goes in, updates for the current month, copies a
.jpg of their signature onto the current month's sheet, and forwards the
timesheet to their manager via e-mail attachment.
2)  The manager opens the timesheets for their employees, verifies it,
and copies a .jpg of their signature onto the current month's sheet, and
forwards the timesheets to a specific admin employee, via e-mail
attachments.
3)  The admin employee takes the attachments, and copies them into a
folder on a server, from which the timesheets are then "processed" and
sent to another agency, to be further processed for paycheck issuance.
 
 
My question to my boss, is why can't we just have the managers move the
timesheets for their employees into the folder on the server, instead of
e-mailing them a second time.  In fact, we could have all processing
done within that folder to begin with, without having to e-mail the
files anywhere.  
 
The issue that comes up, is how to prevent someone from another
department from opening someone else's timesheet.  The big concern there
is that the timesheets not only contain .jpgs of people's signatures,
but also contain SSNs.  
 
My thought is to set permissions on the folder so that people can place
files there, but not be able to open them once they are there.  Is that
possible with NTFS rights?  I will do research on it, but I'm hoping
that someone has already run into this type of issue and has an answer
already.
 
Thanks,
 
Joe Heaton
AISA
Employment Training Panel
1100 J Street, 4th Floor
Sacramento, CA  95814
(916) 327-5276
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