I'm an in house developer and things never seem to slow down for me enough to work on some of the things I'd like to have. One thing I'd like to have is a simple DB that my users can login to and submit a request to have something changed.

The built in issue tracking and task management solutions aren't quiet what I'm looking for.

I'm hoping can either point me to a free or really cheap solution that might work or if you might have one you've built yourself you could share.

TIA.

Hi. I ran across this same thought while I was putting together a database for a small business with a few employees. Originally, I just wanted a little notepad that the employees could leave notes for me if they ran across bugs or had problems with the database. Then I started elaborating a little more, and it ended up being a message system across the entire office.

Its pretty simple. The database is on a server of course. There is a table called "OfficeNotes" and I added a little button that launches a new window that accesses that table. It sort of looks like writing an email. They just write a note, and mark who they want the note to go to via a drop-down list with names of each employee. When someone logs into the database, they will then see a list (a portal) of notes for them. The portal is related to the homepage by a field with Get(Account Name) to the field that has that drop down list..so they see the notes sent to them.

It seems to be a functional little way to pass notes that are specific to that database,("Christine, can you follow up on the Johnson payment?") but more importantly its an easy quick way for all the workers to drop me a quick note when there are problems, or let me know something they would like to see.

I looked around first to find something similar, but what I came up with works well enough and was fairly simple to set up. Also, you can just bring in that table to any database.

Edited August 13, 200916 yr by Guest