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Need for Pinball Management software?
drventure:
Something simple might be some forum or WIKI software (very much like SMF used right here on BYOAC).
Create a topic for each machine, and the running commentary can be issues and fixes with that machine.
Wiki would work similarly.
Other options (barring custom coding) would be any of the open source web based bug tracking software packages out there (there's tons of them).
Assuming you can add your own fields, it should be pretty straightforward to customize one of those to track this sort of thing.
But for just 70 pins, I tend to think PBJ might be right on this one. It might be more work to setup that system, host it, maintain it and do the data entry required than what you'd save with the organization of things.
Note cards or logs sheets stuck to the back of each machine might work just as well, if not better.
lilshawn:
actually, we have 100's of machines on a route and would love to see some kind of dedicated software for this.
back in the day when i worked for a company where we had to service photocopiers and whatnot, we had some software called "service view" it was DOS based. i'm not sure you can find it anymore. basically every machine was in the system serials, place where the machine was located etc... if they called up and it broke down, the receptionist would punch up the customer account and it would list all the machines there... then type into the field what the issue was on that machine. it basically spit out a work order where we would go fix it, write in the parts/time/etc used and hand them in at the end of the day, where the info regarding the repair was input. if it broke down again later, we could pull it up on the computer and say "yeah, we replaced the drum, maybe this other thing is the issue"
now i'm off to see if i can find it...
smartbomb2084:
C'mon people, get real here... A simple fix like a hand written repair log is not good enough.
This is the 21st century. Everyone has and needs some kind of technology hard wired to their ass just to get through the day.
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: smartbomb2084 on July 11, 2011, 08:14:16 pm ---C'mon people, get real here... A simple fix like a hand written repair log is not good enough.
This is the 21st century. Everyone has and needs some kind of technology hard wired to their ass just to get through the day.
--- End quote ---
i suppose if you have a hand full of machines a repair log on the machine is the way to go...but, I don't particularly like the feeling i get driving 4 hours because of a report of a "dead machine" to read the log sheet.
the binder we have of our machines is big enough, and all it contains is itemname/serial/purchasedate/purchaseprice in and excel sheet format. i couldn't imagine how many 3" binders it would take for service sheets.
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on July 11, 2011, 10:29:08 pm ---voting on pinball officer positions.
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okay.
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can i be the "ball search co-ordinater"?
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