Ehour Timesheet Management
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"eHour is the open source webbased time tracking tool for companies and organizations who need accurate information on how much time is spend on projects by their people. eHour makes the amount of time your people spend on projects visible and available as simple and user friendly as possible. eHour requires Java."
Forum discussion
This how-to can be discussed on the forums here
Quick install
1. Download the latest version (v1.4.1 tested in this how-to) here
SME 8 & 9
2. Install Java:
yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk dejavu*
3. Make the downloaded file executable:
chmod 755 [downloaded_file]
4. Execute the downloaded file: './[downloaded_file], and follow script/questions (in this example we use /opt as the installation directory)
5. Point your browser to 'http://yourserver:8000' and login with user/pass: admin:admin
MySQL backend
By default eHour uses an internal database (Derby). However you can use MySQL as the backend database too. Please note that if you want to use/change to MySQL, all existing data will not be used/transferred. It will still be available in the Derby database.
A. Create a new MySQL database (e.g. ehour) (see here how to)
B. Download the MySQL schema for ehour 1.4.1 here
C. Import the downloaded MySQL schema into the ehour database
mysql ehour < fresh.mysql.sql
D. Allow MySQL Local Network Access ( <--- Needs to be verified, does not seem to be required at all)
config setprop mysqld LocalNetworkingOnly no expand-template /etc/my.cnf sv t /service/mysqld
E. Create ehour SME Server db entries (Only required if you want to access ehour from the outside world)
config set ehour service config setprop ehour TCPPort 8000 config setprop ehour access public config setprop ehour status enabled signal-event remoteaccess-update
F. Edit the ehour config file to use the MySQL database
/opt/ehour/home/conf/ehour.properties
Set the database to MySQL and remove the # signs in front of the MySQL lines and change the MySQL user and password
ehour.standalone.port=8000 # derby, mysql and postgresql are supported. When derby is selected you can ignore the ehour.database lines ehour.database=mysql # # for mysql uncomment the following lines (and make sure postgresql lines below are commented out) ehour.database.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver ehour.database.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/ehour?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull&useOldAliasMetadataBehavior=true ehour.database.username=[mysql user] ehour.database.password=[mysql password] # # for postgresql uncomment the following lines (and make sure mysql lines above are commented out) #ehour.database.driver=org.postgresql.Driver #ehour.database.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5433/ehour #ehour.database.username=sa #ehour.database.password=sa # ehour.db.version=0.8.4 # ehour.configurationType=DEPLOYMENT # ehour.translations=%ehour.home%/resources/i18n
Start at boot
Add '/opt/ehour/ehour start' to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (This can be improved by adding ehour to runlevel 7)
Upgrade
For any upgrade, please see the eHour documentation/wiki. Especially if there is an database schema update. So always make a backup of your mysql database before starting any upgrade.
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