As a programmer, I'd love to come up with a complex program with all kinds of bells and whistles to do something like this, but she might find success just using OpenOffice. There are all kinds of ways of tying in logic to OpenOffice spreadsheets, even the capability of tying fields in to a particular database.
Jesse > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of bibhor dhungel > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:46 AM > To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List > Subject: math problem or scheduler > > hi, > i am trying to help a friend figure out an easier way to make > a schedule for her employees. she has to create schedule with > work hours for 5 employees and there are various constraints. > i figure this is a linear programming problem in some ways > and i was wondering if there are some programs that do that. > thanks > bibhor > .============ > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `============ > .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='