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Written by George
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Tuesday, 01 September 2009 00:00 |
In a Nutshell? What is TeamCal Pro  TeamCal Pro is a web-based application utilizing PHP and a MySQL database. It's generic purpose is the absence management of project teams, more precisely of their members. The goal was to create an optically attractive but also effective representation of a calendar display, showing the presence and absence of each team member. TeamCal Pro supports the customization of holiday types and absence types, thus its purpose can be altered to any graphical representation of timeline based processes or activities, e.g. a simple project plan or an event management.
TeamCal Pro is a free open source application. You can use it at no cost in any non-profit environment. If you want to utilize TeamCal Pro in a commercial context (like managing your employees' absences) you are asked to donate a payment of 40.00 USD. Please go to the Home page and use the Donation Form on the right. Thank You very much! Features TeamCal Pro offers a wide variety of options that you can use to adjust its features to your needs. Those features include: |  Year Calendar View
Besides of the month based view you can switch to a year view for each user In one glance you will see all absences of that user throughout the year. This is very helpful to sew how certain blocks of absences are spread over the year. ? | |  Daynotes
You can define notes for each day of the calendar like holidays, events, anniversaries and such. A daynote is indicated by a little red marker in the according cell. Moving the mouse over that cell will reveal the note in form of a pop-up window. ? | |  Group Membership
Each user can be assigned to a group. The groups can be defined by the administrator. A can be a simple member of a group or can be the manager of that group granting him certain additional rights. ? | |  Manage Absence Types
The administrator can create and configure individual abesnce types. Besides a one-letter code and colors he can define thresholds and allowances per absence type. ? | |  Absence Type Icons
Each absence type can be assigned an icon. This icon is then displayed in the calendar views instead of it literal representation. TeamCal Pro comes with a variety of icon. Own icons can be uploaded as well. ? | |  Declination Management
Based on thresholds of a maximum absence percentage per group the Declination Management will provide approval capabilities to group managers. ? | |  Comfortable Menu
TeamCal Pro makes use of the comfortable jsCookMenu. It does not only look nice but it also offers a very convenient way to navigate through the many features of the application. ? | |  Statistics
TeamCal Pro offers detailed statistics about abesences and presences. That way managers can get an effective graphical overview. ? | |  System Log
TeamCal Pro offers a configurable loggin of system events. Everything that users do, add or change cen ba viewed in the system hostory log display. | Requirements In order to install and run TeamCal Pro you need:
- a Web Server (e.g. Apache or IIS)
- PHP 4 or higher
- MySQL 4 or higher
- write access to your web server
| The download package contains an installation script. Just...:
- unpack the archive to your web server
- direct your browser to that location
| Demo See TeamCal Pro in action. Click here to start the demo. Login as 'mmouse' using 'password' as the password to see TeamCal Pro from a users' point of view. Be the administrator and login as 'admin' using 'root' as the password.
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TeamCal Pro
