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Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: krove on Tuesday, January 21 2003 @ 02:18 pm EST

I work for a small european bike parts wholesaler of about 30 employees.

I setup Geeklog for use as our Intranet, providing a spot for employees to post procedural issues, discuss ideas, announce I.T. stuff, and track on-going support issues with our primary software, Microsoft Great Plains.

Since I put Geeklog in place, I have developed three small pseudo-plugins that tie into our workflows and better help keep track of information that otherwise was not tracked or even kept as record. For example, we have credit applications and account applications that come and go and must be approved or rejected. I have a small block on our Intranet homepage that shows the status of those apps (at least ones that have recently changed). Once an application has been approved or rejected, it is automatically moved to a history table. By having a single repository of this information, the salesmen who receive inquiries no longer have to call bookkeeping to check on the status of an application.

We ship via UPS, so I developed a UPS integration that collects data from the individual shipping workstations at the end of each day. The table in the database tracks customer id, shipping method, tracking number (complete with a direct link to UPS's tracking page), COD amount (if any), etc. All this is searchable, browsable, complete with the GL header, blocks and footer. I even developed a stats page to graph shipments by day, month, shipping method, etc.

My next major projects involves the creation of a product picture database that ties into our MS SQL Great Plains product database.

There are countless solutions that can be developed specific to a company, and GL is by far the best solution around which to develop such solutions. Thank you GL developers for such a great product!

Geeklog in Enterprises?

Authored by: muskrat on Friday, January 31 2003 @ 10:45 am EST

I'm interested in learning more about the pieces you've added to GL. Why do you say "pseudo plugin"? What mechanisms did you use?

I'm working on using GL to display "dashboard" of meausures from various other systems in a company. Sounds like what you've done is in some ways similar.

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