Billing-Application

James Dagres

DESCRIPTION:

This software is an application that manages and stores billings for employees. It runs with a command line interface defined in the instructions below.

FEATURES:

• Can store any number of employee’s hours
• Can list total hours for all employees
• Can list hours for any job number
• Can list hours for any day or time

NOTES:

A testing file has also been uploaded

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS NEEDED:

QT

• The program can be made and executed from the terminal as well as from QT. For references on how to install Qt on various OS, please go to http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/installation.html

• To install QT on a Linux OS the following terminal instruction will download everything needed. Be warned it is a massive download (174 MB):

    $ sudo apt-get install qt-sdk
  

INSTRUCTIONS:

• From the terminal once in the project directory run the following commands to make and build the project:

    $ qmake -project
    $ qmake
    $ make
  

• There are some test files to try the project in the TestFiles directory.

• You can open any of those file with the open button pinned to the quick access toolbar

• Once the file has been loaded the GUI's interface should be pretty straight forward.

• To add a billing the command line argument format is:

    $ ./mybillings –add  –n namespec  –d datespec –s  timespec  –e  timespec
  

• To delete a billing entry the command line argument format is:

    $ ./mybillings –del confnumspec
  

• To display a list all of the billings on a certain day the command line argument format is:

    $ ./mybillings –list -d datespec
  

• To display a list all of the billings for a particular name the command line argument format is:

    $ ./mybillings –list -n namespec
  

• To display a list the total time accumulated by each employee in the database the command line argument format is:

    $ ./mybillings –total
  

• To display the help menu the command line argument format is:

    $ ./mybillings –h -e -l -p       
  

Where

• “myBillings” is the name of the program.
• “namespec” is a string containing the name of the employee
• “datespec” is the date of which the employee worked in following format: "mm/dd/yy"
• “timespec” is the time in the format “hh:mm”. “-s” comes before the time clocked in and “-e” comes before the time clocked out
• “confnumspec” is the confirmation number of the entry which is in “quotes”.
• “total” prints out the total time accumulated by each employee in the database
• Every entry should be written inside "quotation marks"