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ettiene

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Hi guys / girls.

We run a driver training business and require a scheduling program.

I did get a guy from Cape Town via freelancer.com to do it, but it's been almost 3months now and we don't even have a beta yet to test.

I am sure there is someone on here that can do this or point me in the right direction.

Thanks

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What are the requirements?

Pickup and delivery, set schedules, daily changing?

Please elaborate, I might have a solution for you.

Pm me

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Hi guys / girls.

We run a driver training business and require a scheduling program.

I did get a guy from Cape Town via freelancer.com to do it, but it's been almost 3months now and we don't even have a beta yet to test.

I am sure there is someone on here that can do this or point me in the right direction.

Thanks

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It doesn't take 5 minutes to get projects like this done. Costs plenty manhours to get something done correctly.

Perhaps its better to buy something in this case

Google:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=schedule+program

Results:
https://www.capterra.com/employee-scheduling-software/
 
I have tried more than 8 different scheduling apps/platforms, none of them meets the requirements.

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Hi guys / girls.

We run a driver training business and require a scheduling program.

I did get a guy from Cape Town via freelancer.com to do it, but it's been almost 3months now and we don't even have a beta yet to test.

I am sure there is someone on here that can do this or point me in the right direction.

Thanks

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I could make something with Delphi 7 or you can just use pre-existing popular software, you know where they have teams to resolve stuff quickly because they licence to many people.
 
Basically :
- Set available resources (trucks), say amount of hours it's available per day
- Set course duration for each student, say 10hours per student/course
- Set how many hours per day each student must receive.

Then the program must create a daily schedule accordingly.

Extra requirement will be to assign fixed time slots for certain students. The variable students must then be scheduled around this time slot.

Lastly keep track how many hours has the student finished already.

That's a rough framework, we don't need any other integrations like sending SMS /email reminders or anything.





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This shouldn't be too difficult if you get someone who knows how to use a logic based language like Prolog.
These languages are specifically well adapted to figuring out scheduling problems.
 
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This shouldn't be too difficult if you get someone who knows how to use a logic based language like Prolog.
These languages are specifically well adapted to figuring out scheduling problems.
Who would know this language?

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That's hard to say. I only know a little of it from a book I read a while back. I think these kinds of "specialty" languages are usually know by more seasoned developers who take time to learn stuff they don't necessarily have to learn to do their jobs (I could be wrong).

Is there any specific platform you want this to run on?
 
Is there any specific platform you want this to run on?

We're not picky about the platform, considering the fact that it currently takes our office lady about 6 hours a day to do this manually.



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Something simple could be created in ASP.Net, then it'll be web based as well. But even a windows app would work for this. If I didn't work full-time I might have had a crack at it, it's a bit difficult to take on a project with a full-time job. How immediately is this required?
 
There are soo many ways of doing this. I would also like to have a smack at it and see what I could do with something like that.
But full time job and two okes seemingly to have just left over night is going to weigh on me soon.
 
Something simple could be created in ASP.Net, then it'll be web based as well. How immediately is this required?

Web based would be a bonus, then the manager can view the schedule off-site.

Time frame 2-3months.


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Web based would be a bonus, then the manager can view the schedule off-site.

Time frame 2-3months.


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Oh okay, 2-3 months is very reasonable for something like this. Tempting, tempting.

Shieeet I'm game, I'll have a crack at it if you'd like

Edit: PM me more details and I guess I need to ask, what's your budget?
 
Intermediate developer here. I'd be willing take this on for the right price. If you dont come right, let me know.
 
Hey guys

Time to revisit this, I had some offers from guys but it turned up as empty promises.

There a few more features needed aswell.

Budget we looking at R15k + depending on features.

Anyone up for this?




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Pm me, i can develop this for you :) Plenty of good references too on recent custom dev jobs.
 
Id like to throw my hat in the ring as well.
I could possible do an android app as well.
 
Thanks for the replies guys.

I'll send the specs through asap.
 
Hi Etienne,

Hope you are well. Responding to your need for a scheduling program. I believe I can help you with your requirements. I have experience of this type of problem in the context of academic scheduling. It is a simple linear optimisation problem. Unfortunately something like Prolog only deals with satisfiability and not optimal fit. There are many free solvers available that will easily crunch the problem, it is just a question of formulating it mathematically and the rest like user interface is just icing on the cake. Please message me if you are interested in discussing.
 
Based on your requirements, I would Google around for timetable or time management software not scheduling software. There seems to be a schedule element, but it doesn't seem to be too large.

Something like PagerDuty might work. Before you laugh, it fills the logic requirements so you could just interact with the API into a front-end that "rebrands" their endpoints into something you can use.
 
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Hi Ettiene,

Did you manage to get your development done?

I recently did a custom web based payroll scheduling solution for a big labour broker in the eastrand that
runs daily and schedules weekly/fortnightly/monthly payrolls for processing with deadlines.
This took the company off printed excel sheets and saved them a huge amount of time.
It's also in the cloud and I'm currently doing a mobile extension app for them to manage payroll delivery by their drivers.

so I have something recent to show on the very problem you have

I do quite a lot of work around scheduling I do mobile/web/cloud/desktop full stack development.

I also have experience in GIS and Mapping if you need to do geo-fencing for the vehicles
or just want to log routes taken by your students.

If you come up short and need help PM me.
 
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