PHP module, probably apt-get or yum.

[s]Thank you for your prompt reply, would you be able to tell me where to get the LDAP modules? Are the modules you are talking about are for Apache web server?[/s]

It was very smart of you to select the fall back option. I believe you need to install the PHP LDAP modules.

Hello, I am new to this software and recently took over the role. The version installed is v1.5.2 I have been asked to configure LDAP authentication for Timesheet Next Gen. The software and webserver is installed on the centOS and database (mysql) is installed and configured on the different server also running centOS. After configuring ldap settings via the webpage, during the login attempt I am getting the following error: Could not access LDAP module - is it installed? or Incorrect username or password I am not quite sure where is the module and how to enable it I can still log in using the local password as I ticked "Fallback to local Authentication on fail" option

Yes, I am very much interested.

Well, of course any code can be modified. However in the next release the entry of time will move to a pop-up window, like the stopwatch. Are you interested in doing mods for TSNG? Peter

Hi Peter, Thanks for the prompt reply. You said that in the daily timesheet it is possible to enter time against one task at a time. But can it be modified to listbox and enable multiple time entries? Thanks once again

Sort of. The daily timesheet allows you to enter time against one task at a time. As you log your time against task1 and then task2 and say task3, these times and tasks will appear lower down in the form, one row per unique task. An advantage of entering against the daily form is that you can specify the exact start and stop times of each task. If you have to log your time split across a number of tasks each day, have a look at the simple week timesheet form. This form enables you to enter the hours for a day across multiple tasks on one form. A disadvantage of this simple week form is that only the hours per task are recorded. There is no way you can specify start and stop times because this form assumes all hours start at midnight. Peter

Is it possible to make time entry for multiple tasks in daily time-sheet page?

Okay found a dev list: https://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=215962

Is there an easy way to add all users to all projects?

Tommo4242, Thank you for the reply. Is there a definitive list of developers to be found, or should I extract it from the chatter in the forum? Also, I'm always on freenode. I wonder if a channel would be a useful addition the the project? Andy

There is a half-finished feature, that comes close to what you want in the concept of "glide-time". It works with the absences to calculate an expected working time and cummulates the actual working tme against this. As I said, may be along the lines of what you want. Or you can use/define an absence type for this "PTO" category. But these are entered in units of "half-days" not hours. If you want someone to develop this for you, it's like this, this is an open-source project (GPLv2 license). Anyone can be paid to take this source-code and add the features you want, be it the original developers or not (actually none of the original developers are active here). The only restriction is that you can't sell/distribute the modified code as your own. Unlike some other open-source projects there is no organisation behind this project that is ready to take your money, but maybe if you contact some of the current developers directly (off-list), maybe someone has time/capacity to help you. Cheers

Greetings, My company allocates a certain amount of what we call "Paid Time Off" every year. As the year passes, we can use these hours in any way we want, by the end of the year we lose anything we haven't used. Can the "Absence" section handle this type of activity? An 'admin' can allocate the PTO, and the when the PTO gets used, that amount is subtracted from the alloted amount? If not possible currently with the software, is there a way we can pay to help develop this feature? If so what would the expected amount be? Thank you, Andy

Hello, I installed this to demo and ran into the same issue. It looks like my installed version of MySQL did not have all the timezone settings loaded into the database. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/time-zone-support.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/time-zone-upgrades.html The above two pages were helpful in understanding the MySQL timezone configuration. Here is what ended up working for me: [code] mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mysql.time_zone_name; +----------+ | COUNT(*) | +----------+ | 0 | +----------+ [/code] [code] $ mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root mysql [/code] [code] mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mysql.time_zone_name; +----------+ | COUNT(*) | +----------+ | 1723 | +----------+ [/code] Before inserting local timezone data into mysql the following TZ conversion was coming back NULL: [code] mysql> SELECT CONVERT_TZ('2007-03-11 2:00:00','US/Eastern','US/Central'); +------------------------------------------------------------+ | CONVERT_TZ('2007-03-11 2:00:00','US/Eastern','US/Central') | +------------------------------------------------------------+ | 2007-03-11 01:00:00 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ [/code] After loading the zone data into mysql the timezones DST offsets started working correctly.

Greetings, I'm wondering does TimesheetNG automatically try to pull the 'mail' attribute out of the LDAP server like it does the sirname and givenname? Thanks Andy

i read the files and still have not been able to successfully complete the operation. what am i missing?

I tried it yesterday evening (EST) and it said the same thing as Owen was getting: "None clearance is required for the page you have tried to access." I said, hell, it's easy enough to install... so installed it. I hope this is helpful.

Peter, Rock on! Thank you for helping me understand. Andy

Andy, you could use the timesheet to track these times. The client, project and task labels might be confusing however, but mostly to the person setting it up. Users would still see "client, project and task" as web form headings, but when they enter their times, they can enter them against meaningful restaurant type entries. For example I defined the client as "Joes Restaurant". I defined the projects as "Kitchen", "Stores", "Restaurant". I then defined some of the tasks as prepare food, cook food, head chef, wash dishes, waiter, floor manager. Then users can enter their times against client "Joes", project "Kitchen", task "head chef". Users would be restricted to a weekly timesheet say. So I think it is possible. Peter