[ihris-developers] iHRIS customization

[Luke Duncan]

Hi Ismail,

Which type of normal user were you using that couldn't view the 
employment history?  I just tried as HR Staff (and HR Manager should be 
the same) and everything looked correct.  It should show up below the 
link you clicked to add the employment data.  And the edit link should 
be right beside that.  This all showed up when I tested using our latest 
demo at:  http://hris.capacityproject.org/iHRIS/Manage

If it still isn't showing up, maybe you could send a screenshot of the 
lower part of the view person page?

As for the reports, we're going to be adding some new documentation next 
week regarding the reporting system.  They will be found here:  
http://open.intrahealth.org/wiki/Technical_Documentation

The message about the user form can be ignored.  It's not something that 
needs to be cached.  It's really just a notification so the report 
should have been generated.  Does it display a time next to the report 
name after you generate them with the last generated time?  If you go to 
the Report Views section can you view the reports under the staff reports?

You can also try accessing the database directly to make sure the cached 
tables have data.  I believe there should be an option to use 
PHPMyAdmin.  You should just be able to change the URL to be /phpmyadmin 
on your server if you don't see a menu item for it.  When you select the 
iHRIS Manage database it will display a list of all the tables.  One of 
them should be zebra_staff (or something similar).  When you browse this 
table does it show that data exists?

Also we'll have a new release for Windows finished soon that should help 
with some of these issues.

Luke

ismail yusuf wrote:
> Dear Luke, 
>
> thank you very much for your help, it worked well. i am continuing to 
> explore the system and in case of any problem i will get back to you.
>
> During my exploration on using the system, i observed the following 
> problems/challenges and i couldnt find a way to get through them as a 
> normal user, (not as a developer). During adding person's information 
> for example i am adding employment history of a person, i managed to 
> add but i couldnt find a way to view the employment data as well as i 
> couldnt find a way to edit the employment data i added (say if i made 
> an error during adding), i was wondering if there was a way of doing 
> that, please assist me on that. 
>
> Also on report, i tried to generate some reports, like staff report, 
> position report but the system ended up displaying either of the 
> following errors, 
>
> "Unable to setup cached form user",
> "Could not cache user" OR
>
> you you help me with this,
>
> cheers,
> Ismail
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Luke Duncan <lduncan at intrahealth.org 
> <mailto:lduncan at intrahealth.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Ismail,
>
>     Those tutorials were designed on a later version of the software
>     that hasn't been released in Windows.  They should work just fine
>     if you change the atLeast version to 3.1.3 instead of 3.1.4.  If
>     there are any other references to 3.1.4 in the tutorial you should
>     also use 3.1.3.  Since the module would have been disabled by the
>     version mismatch, you may also need to go to the Configure Modules
>     section of the site to manually enable the DemoPerson module if it
>     isn't enabled after making this change.
>
>     Let us know if you have any further issues.  We will be releasing
>     a 4.0 version of our software on Windows fairly soon so we can let
>     you know when that is ready as well.
>
>     Thanks for your interest,
>     Luke
>
>     ismail yusuf wrote:
>
>         hi all,
>         i am interested in customizing iHRIS manage, currently im
>         using Microsoft Windows SP 2, so i downloaded Windows iHRIS
>         3.1.3 installed it and started reading the technical
>         documentation and tutorials on
>         http://open.intrahealth.org/mediawiki/Technical_Documentation
>         so that i get familiar with the system. i was following the
>         tutorials on Adding Fields to the Person Form
>         <http://open.intrahealth.org/mediawiki/Tutorial:_Adding_Fields_to_the_Person_Form>
>         and Adding Forms and Fields
>         <http://open.intrahealth.org/mediawiki/Tutorial:_Adding_Forms_and_Fields>
>         step by step just the way they where instructed in the
>         tutorials, but no changes happened,  
>
>         i tried to troubleshoot what might be the problem without any
>         success.
>         i noted one thing, on adding module DemoPerson, the
>         requirements tag in the configuration file of the module
>         specified version atleast 3.1.4 and less than 3.2 as displayed
>         below
>
>           <requirement name='Person'>
>             <atLeast version='3.1.4'/>
>             <lessThan version='3.2'/>
>           </requirement>
>          so i began to wonder the changes i made didnt appear because
>         i was working on windows version 3.1.3 though i am not sure
>         yet if that might be the problem. i tried to find the higher
>         versions but all of the versions appered to be for linux. is
>         there anywhere i can find higher versions for windows, or i
>         will have to switch to linux in order to customize the
>         system?! i am really stucked, full of puzzels, dont know where
>         to start. can anyone help me on this please, as i am really
>         running out of time, i need to get familiar with customizing
>         the system as soon as possible.
>
>         thnx much....
>         Ismail, Dar es salaam, Tanzania.
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