[Openinteract-help] Job Tracking System

[Thomas W. <trw...@ce...>]

Hi,

I want to implement a job tracking system and it is going to be a fairly
large project.  Therefore getting started on the right path is important.

To that end I am looking at OpenInteract for this and would appreciate any
feedback from users as to how well they think it would fit my needs.

My company does short run 4 color digital printing.  Because it is short urn
we handle multiple jobs every day.  I developed an online bidding system; it
use Apache, mod_perl, and  mysql.  Now I would like to move to tracking jobs
online; first, for internal purposes -- it would make the workflow much
easier to follow -- and later for customers to view the status of their jobs
on the web.  Each bid has about 38 data fields associated with it and each
job will have a few more fields along with an image file in the form of a
pdf.

I would like to create the job once approved from the bid.  Then each job
needs to be tracked through production with operators at each stage being
able to update its status or add notes.  After the job is finished an
invoice would be printed to go out with the job.  Web based applications are
good for this because we use Mac's and PC's, and both must be able to have
access to that job.

I currently use Template::Toolkit along with a few other Apache modules to
deal with the bidding. I could do all the programming myself-no single task
seems that hard, naturally though, it would be helpful to have an existing
framework within which to develop.  It would help me to know what users of
OpenInteract think about its applicability to this project.

I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.

Thanks,
Thomas Whitney