I intend to remove the flag when the hours are paid.
As a bonus, I get a notification from ntfy on my phone, and the user gets an email with a listing of all unpaid hours.
Possible addon :
Instead of a text-field, there could be a dropdown with some categories
Button in Node-Red to “pay the user”, and remove flags from logs.
I mark the logs as done, since the work is done. But could rather use status to track if the work is paid or not.
If I were doing this, I think I’d use inventory tracking to keep track of the paid/unpaid hours/money state.
In the simplest case there would be two logs to complete the cycle then - one that credits the hours against a balance, and a second that “settles” the balance when the hours have been paid.
The nice thing about this is that it captures the potential many-to-one relationship between work events and payment events, but provides a convenient place to upload the receipt/invoice photo on the payment log.
I use this “Money” asset type GitHub - symbioquine/farmOS_money_asset: A 'money asset' module for farmOS (along with a “USD” - US dollars - unit) for that account balance tracking purpose in my own use-case, but the same idea would work if you created a “Timesheet” asset type for hours inventory tracking.
I just needed a simple way to track workers hours for starters. I might go further on this.
Would be a nice to semi-automatic track my own hours too. Clock in/out with a hard button by the barn door or something.
I should dig in and try to make a quickform for this. But for my workers to use it, I would need to give them full access to my data. I don’t like that.
Node-Red is great that way.
Tempted to learn about the inventory features, I came up with a dashboard for tracking diesel usage.
A button to fill up the diesel storage. And a form to fill up a tractor with the given quantity.
The storage is decremented, and the tractor is incremented.
That gives a way to track diesel usage pr tractor too.
