Job Board
This is a Job Board system that is used for assigning employees to jobsites. This application takes advantage of the Exzigo API to provide employees and jobsites. This application in turn caches that data and allows assignments based on it.
Features
Job Board in its current vision will provide 3 main views:
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Assignment View
A assignment oriented view that offers little in the 'at a glance' category of things.
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Overall View
This view exposes the schedule for the company and any notices or restrictions for a jobsite.
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Slide View
This view rotates through the jobsites that currently scheduled for and displays them in a 'at-a-glance' manner.
Assignment View
The assignment view will only be accessible by management officers that are privy to the PIN necessary for modifying the assignments. At the start, there will only be a single PIN and no other users/usernames/emails necessary for accessing the site. In the future, this may change.
The assigner will provide a page with all active employees listed along with their assigned jobsites. Next to their names will be a checkbox that will allow them to be bulk assigned to a jobsite via a dropdown and submit button. Simple.
There will eventually be an option to group by currently assigned jobsites, though for now, it will simply be ordered by employee last name (just kidding, its by id).
Overview (not implemented yet)
This view, similar to the assignment view, will only allow the viewing of all jobsites and their assignees. This will be a simple grid setup where all jobsites will be a grid element with jobsite information and assignees listed. This grid will be responsive and will flow to fit large screens.
Slide View
This view will provide a "rolling marquee" of the day's assigned jobsites and the assignees.
Essentially this will be a larger display targeted page with a highlight of the following details of assignment:
- Jobsite Name
- Jobsite Notices (don't have specs for this yet)
- Assigned Employees
This view will eventually include jobsite oriented information such as weather and any notices from management regarding the particular jobsite.
Starting and Configuring
Configuration options
These are set at exec time with -D<name>=<val>
auth.pin - Authentication pin used for login
db.database - The database to use, must be prepared manually.
db.username - user to connect with
db.password - password to use
The hostname and port isn't settable right now, it should be using a
local instance of postgresql.
slide.refresh - Number of times around before the database is checked
for new entries.
slide.time - Seconds in which to keep the slide on screen for
exzigo.username - User to fetch from Exzigo API (email)
exzigo.password - password ..
exzigo.poll.interval - Time between fetches (default 60 minutes)
^^ those are the system properties but you can just use env variables:
export AUTH_PIN="9999"
export WEBSERVER_PORT=80
export DB_DATABASE="jobboard"
export DB_USERNAME="jobboard"
export DB_PASSWORD="jobboard"
export SLIDE_REFRESH=1
export SLIDE_TIME=10
export EXZIGO_USERNAME="email@address.com"
export EXZIGO_PASSWORD="pass1234"
Running
Bam: java -jar job-board.jar -D... or java -jar job-board.jar # with exported variables.