In his latest post, Scott Mattocks talks about an application he's created combining PHP-GTK2 and the OnForce web service API to manage work orders and their properties.
I like the idea of taking something that is normally web based and putting it on the user's desktop. This way things can be made a little more intuitive and comfortable for the user because the application isn't constrained by the web browser any more.
Some of the features included already are:
- putting together a batch of work orders while offline and sending them when connected again
- pull down work order data
- close work orders
- get and add notes
