DevonThink 3 versus Tinderbox versus VooDooPad

Posted by J J Weimer
Nov 23, 2019 at 09:43 PM

I am a bit confused about which parts YOU do versus which parts the software app is to do.

* Do YOU manually assign the faculty to the classes, or should the software do this (through some optimization routines)?

* Do YOU manually set up the payment rules for the classes in advance, or is the software supposed to do this somehow?

* What is meant by “runs a routine merging faculty with classes” ...?

I have to think that what you want is this ...

(Database of Faculty)
(Database of Classes)
(Database of Payment Rules for Classes)
(Database of Faculty Assignments for Semester)
—> payments required per faculty

I have to imagine that a spreadsheet app could do the job using internal cell functions and reference calls.

Alternatively, I have to think that the datatool package in LaTeX might do what you need (and give you a nicely-formatted PDF report to submit with no greater effort).

The FileMaker Pro app should be able to tear this up with no problem.

Little that I know about it, someone is bound to say that you should use an SQL variant database tool.

Is this where you are going with what you need?