Hi, I want to implement a job tracking and database publishing system and hoping for some assistance.
My company does short run 4 color digital printing. Because it is short urn we handle multiple jobs every day. I developed an online bidding system; it use Apache, mod_perl, and mysql. Now I would like to move to tracking jobs online; first, for internal purposes -- it would make the workflow much easier to follow -- and later for customers to view the status of their jobs on the web. Each bid has about 38 data fields associated with it and each job will have a few more fields along with an image file in the form of a pdf. Each job needs to be tracked through production with operators at each stage having being able to update its status or add notes. After the job is finished an invoice would be printed to go out with the job. Web based applications are good for this because we use Mac's and PC's, and both must be able to have access to that job. I was looking at Bricolage, however it appears to be more suited to text content publishing. I currently use Template::Toolkit to print out the bids and I imagine I could do all the programming myself--naturally, it would be helpful to find some package that suited at least some of my requirements.. I would really appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. Thanks, Thomas Whitney
