Figure 176: Selection of subtotals for several employees.
Example 2: Timekeeping
This example is often used by consultants and in several variations in user support.
The task is to provide a means for one or more users to keep track of working hours.
Note
In the real world timekeeping requires tracking working time on
individual projects. Specialized database software is often used but for
simple applications in a small company a Calc spreadsheet and the Data
Pilot might be all that is needed to track work done.
A typical way of doing this is to create a spreadsheet per month and a sum sheet with
all the results of one year. For each employee, there is one file (see Figures 177 and
178 for examples of two pages from the file for one employee).
Practical problems and questions
• It is very difficult and time-consuming to create the timekeeping table: 12
sheets that have to be copied from a raw template and adjusted for each
month, and a sheet with all the yearly sums with references to all the other
sheets. Users often search for a macro to make the creation easier.
• The file shown contains only the data of one employee. How can you get all the
data for all the employees, so that you can have a summary of all the work
hours from all employees of a department or the whole company?
• How can you compare employees and/or departments?
• The file shown contains data for one year. How can you compare it with the
data of the previous years?
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