Well, its been a while since I have posted on here. Been a little busy with school, and caught up in coding. Well, here are some of the features that I have been able to get to work.

The multi-tier notes system works fine now. There are a few access options I would like to add to it, such as linking to pictures, and different ways of actually pulling it up, but for now, it allows you to view customer, vehicle, and repair order notes.

The ability to add RO’s. I dont like the layout yet, but you can create RO’s if the customer exists in the database, I have not implemented the ability to create new customers on the fly just yet. I am working on the new layout and the customer creation dialogue.

Color coded datagridview. This feature allows you to easily assess the production just by looking at your ro list. If a car is late, it shows up in red, if its on schedule, it shows up in cornflower blue or whatever that weird windows color is. Its going to have the ability to forsee if the car is going to be late depending on the status its in, which shoulld allows shop managers to redirect resources to make sure the car leaves on time.

Dates management dialogue. This screen allows you to change the status of the RO and will the main focus of production management. There will be an equation that determines which day it should be in what process depending on the percent set by the admin.

And finally, the Scheduler. This tools is no where near done, but still has some nice functionality. The reason that this tool is so important is it allows you to schedule in work, and not overload your employees. By taking the average number of hours your techs turn in a week, it allows you to schedule work, and not exceed the amount of hours your techs can turn. Of course, you can over schedule, but it will warn you that you are over the limit.  So far, it allows you only to view what is scheduled, but by the end it will query the database, and see how many hours the techs are turning in your department, and then it will set your maximum hours.

There are more functions to come, but this is what I have so far.

Ok, project ‘Shop Man’ is in progress. Ive done a bit of research and this is what ive come up with.

Shop Man is going to be a program written in VB.NET and uses MySQL for the database. Shop Mans purpose is going to be managing auto shops, from bodyshops to dealerships. Its going to have multiple mini applications built into it to manage work flow and inventory. Its also planned to have it manage certain accounting details (what I dont know yet, still need to find an accountant with experience it auto to point out what it needs).

This is the progress thus far.

• Got the main interface laid out that the user with navigate and established a database connection
• Got three of the 10 known needed databases designed. Probably going to need to be edited later, but for testing they are alright
• Got the ’scheduler’ app section of the program made, which lays out how many ‘hours’ you got coming in per day

Thats it so far. Most of the time I got into this is in research. The game plan is there, just needs design and implementation. I do not have school for the next few weeks (except for monday which is math finals) so I plan on getting a few more forms made so that I can add new ro’s, vehicles, customers and writers without having to use the query browser. Thats it for now, check back soon for updates.

Hello and welcome to ‘BV’. There isnt much to this site yet, but as time comes I plan on hosting many of things here for general to professional use. What you may ask? Well, I am, and have been for a while, a hobbyist programmer. Languages ranging from old school Quick Basic, to newer languages such as VB.Net, and C#. In the middle I have meddled with languages such as Torque, Dark Basic (and its SDK’s) and a few others.

The Goal:
      To bring together a team of developers to take over the world… not really. But I would like to get together a group of developers like myself that would be interested in working together on multiple projects ranging from large to small. From development planning all the way to full scale launch. I have a few idea’s in mind for applicaitons, but you will have to stay tuned in to see what is to come.