I offered to help someone the other day with a rostering system with a web interface and admin.

Let's assume they have 20 employees in a 24-hour restaurant.

These 20 people can work any one of three shifts a day. We don't need to worry about when they finish. If they start at nine, they always finish at five.

So the problem is, roughly:

And I want to be able to create

Assuming some database back end, how would monks approach this? What would be the objects, and so on? It's not that I don't know how to do it, it's that I can't figure out the most sensible way.

I need to tie a list of people to a list of times indefinitely into the future. Would you for instance have a "person-works" oriented structure and have the manager input "person A works (list of shifts)" or have a "shift-is-worked-by" structure and have them pick a list of employees to roster against "monday 9 AM"?

Thanks in advance. 


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In reply to Rostering Staff: Architecture? Not strictly Perl by Cody Pendant

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