I would lean towards the sharepoint solution if I were you, since you already have the infrastructure and price seems to be an issue.
So the 2007 template is free as is WSS 3; why not crank open a VM and take a look on a test box, especially if you are a tinkerer and want to see what it can do. While a customized MOSS install might take a bit, a WSS generic install on a test box is automatic and you could have that up and running with the template in no time flat. -troy -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vacation / PTO Tracking So HR is asking about implementing a Vacation / OOTO / PTO Tracker, something more robust and useable than sending a spreadsheet around each week. Some of the things that were mentioned: * A system that works based on accruals of PTO (and sick days) by pay period. * And that can be modified or adjusted to reflect the changes in allowed PTO based on years of service. * A visual calendar that shows who is out and color coded by groups (RS, CS, IT, HR, etc...). * An auto-warning that is either displayed to the requester or manager when a certain number of people are already approved to have a certain day off (her example: if 2 CS employees already have the last day of the month off, then there should be a warning that a 3rd can't). * Don't inundate managers with too many emails - this would be hard to avoid especially for someone that potentially has 60 people under her... Maybe a nightly email that says, "you have 5 requests to approve". * Not expensive - there is talk of requesting budget for something like this. But how much? Past solutions have been shot down because they were $10K. We currently run SharePoint, and found links to some Windows SharePoint Applications: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=96dbe5f3-203a-40f8-a03a-64d0a9811368&DisplayLang=en (from 2005) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56406562-01f9-4a18-9924-2dc0684232c8&DisplayLang=en (from 2007) Or something similar to this: http://www.digiappz.com/digileave.asp (but not exactly this one, because the demo looks like you can only specify that each person gets the same number of PTO days). This one looks decent: http://teqnologix.com/uat/ (but it could be out of our price range at $2 per user per month. At 150 employees, that's $3600 / yr.) Or maybe ADP has something that integrates with payroll, but that is also probably expensive as well. There's got to be something out there that we can use that doesn't cost thousands of dollars. We looked at a few screenshots of the SharePoint 3.0 application listed above. It looks like a promising solution, but there wasn't enough detail in them to determine the effort / procedure involved in setting up the rules that we need to track? I would love to see this application (or any others that the group has worked with) in action. Does anyone have the SharePoint application installed, and is happy with it, and could we set up a WebEx to see how it looks / works, and would be open to possibly answering some of the questions we have about our requirements? What can I say, I'm a visual person... would love to see / hear about what is working for you all... Thanks, Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
