Hello all,
This is an interesting problem I have been working on. What I have is a
little multiuser project request tracking application. What happens is
that I log in and create projects and assign people to the projects.
Each project has steps associated with it, and the steps need to be done
in a certain order. Now, I have to request that the assigned person
perform each of the steps, and need to make sure that I cannot request
that the next step be done unless the previous one has been completed.
What I have thought is to have a projects table and another table named
project_steps with fields: id, name, ordernum, project_id. The ordernum
tells the order in which the steps must be performed. Then, create
another table, nextsteprequest, with fields: id, project_id,
project_step_id. I was thinking that when I request the next step be
done I would have the app check to see if the numbers matched up, thus
either allowing, or disallowing me from making the request.
The question is this: is this the best way to do it (theorizing that I
wouldn’t have a form showing me what had been completed and what hadn’t)
or is there a better way.
Thank you all for your ideas and input.
Sincerely,
Robert D.