A sort of people-finder

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captnkurt

Hey all you Freewarians! (Freewareites?)

I am wondering if software exists that will meet my needs, perhaps someone
can suggest something? Here's the deal...

I work in IT doing desktop support for my fellow local gov't employees. You
know, "my Word document froze and I need help retrieving it", etc.

One of the buildings I service has 12 floors, hundreds of employees and I
often can't remember where exactly this or that person's desk exactly is.
Our help desk ticketing system has the person's phone # but for some reason
no one has entered the suite or room numbers. Even if that info was there,
a lot of the time the suite number wouldn't be terribly useful because it
would still consist of several dozen cubicles in your typical cube farm
layout.

What I am envisioning is software that would allow me to create a basic
outline of the floor layout, where I could note where people's offices or
cubicles are. It wouldn't need blueprint exactness or anything, just
something that would allow me to make a rough approximation of where the
desk was located. I guess it would need to be tied to a database so that,
once I keyed in everyone's information, I could search for "SMITH, BECKY"
and it would show me the spot on the map where the person's desk is at.

I thought about Googling for something that might be able to do at least
some of this, but I realized I don't have the first clue what terms to use.
Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions on where to go next (or why this is a
stupid idea) would be appreciated.
 
you can use any program that can draw tables, the cells will represent the
cubicles...inside you will write your
data. then you do a search the program will show you where it fond the
person

you can even make in nice looking if you add a user icon as background in
each cell, and if its html
you can upload it somewhere so you can use a browser to access it

I would use an wysiwyg html editor, perhaps NVU can do it since we are in
the freeware newsgroup.
 
What I am envisioning is software that would allow me to create a basic
outline of the floor layout, where I could note where people's offices or
cubicles are. It wouldn't need blueprint exactness or anything, just
something that would allow me to make a rough approximation of where the
desk was located. I guess it would need to be tied to a database so that,
once I keyed in everyone's information, I could search for "SMITH, BECKY"
and it would show me the spot on the map where the person's desk is at.
Click to expand...

Look at the "Floorplan" thread. Use any database program you're
comfortable with to keep a list of people vs. <locations as indicated
on the floorplan>.
 
captnkurt said:
Hey all you Freewarians! (Freewareites?)

I am wondering if software exists that will meet my needs, perhaps someone
can suggest something? Here's the deal...

I work in IT doing desktop support for my fellow local gov't employees. You
know, "my Word document froze and I need help retrieving it", etc.

One of the buildings I service has 12 floors, hundreds of employees and I
often can't remember where exactly this or that person's desk exactly is.
Our help desk ticketing system has the person's phone # but for some reason
no one has entered the suite or room numbers. Even if that info was there,
a lot of the time the suite number wouldn't be terribly useful because it
would still consist of several dozen cubicles in your typical cube farm
layout.

What I am envisioning is software that would allow me to create a basic
outline of the floor layout, where I could note where people's offices or
cubicles are. It wouldn't need blueprint exactness or anything, just
something that would allow me to make a rough approximation of where the
desk was located. I guess it would need to be tied to a database so that,
once I keyed in everyone's information, I could search for "SMITH, BECKY"
and it would show me the spot on the map where the person's desk is at.

I thought about Googling for something that might be able to do at least
some of this, but I realized I don't have the first clue what terms to use.
Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions on where to go next (or why this is a
stupid idea) would be appreciated.
Click to expand...

Before you set out, could you not just ring the person you wish to see
for location details and/or agree a place to meet?

Ed.
 
captnkurt said:
I work in IT doing desktop support for my fellow local gov't employees. You
know, "my Word document froze and I need help retrieving it", etc.

One of the buildings I service has 12 floors, hundreds of employees and I
often can't remember where exactly this or that person's desk exactly is.
Our help desk ticketing system has the person's phone # but for some reason
no one has entered the suite or room numbers. Even if that info was there,
a lot of the time the suite number wouldn't be terribly useful because it
would still consist of several dozen cubicles in your typical cube farm
layout.

What I am envisioning is software that would allow me to create a basic
outline of the floor layout, where I could note where people's offices or
cubicles are. It wouldn't need blueprint exactness or anything, just
something that would allow me to make a rough approximation of where the
desk was located. I guess it would need to be tied to a database so that,
once I keyed in everyone's information, I could search for "SMITH, BECKY"
and it would show me the spot on the map where the person's desk is at.

I thought about Googling for something that might be able to do at least
some of this, but I realized I don't have the first clue what terms to use.
Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions on where to go next (or why this is a
stupid idea) would be appreciated.
Click to expand...

Dunno how much detail you need/want for the floor plan itself. Something
like Zoner Draw 3 might work fairly well for your needs. . .

Program: Zoner Draw 3
Author: Zoner
Ware: (Registerware: product key) (free) earlier version of $ware
http://www.zoner.com/

more possibilities here:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_GRAPHICS.php#1.30Editor:Vector-Draw

I suggest you create a grid similar to those used on road maps - numbers
A-Z (more or less) across the top and 1-100 (more or less) along the
side of your floor plan. Then each person's location can be noted this
way in your database: "Floor 10, G31", "Floor 3, B2" etc. etc.

Susan
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