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Posted on 11/11/16 at 7:43 am
Posted by redneck
Los Suenos, Costa Rica
Member since Dec 2003
53608 posts
Posted on 11/11/16 at 7:43 am
Basically we have 4 delivery trucks. Is there a program out there that I can upload a word or PDF document each morning and everyone in the company with the login info can log in at any point and see the trucks schedule for the day?

I know there are more complicated systems out there but the old timers need it as simple as possible

thanks

if I can't find anything I will just send a group email out each morning
Posted by Layabout
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2011
11082 posts
Posted on 11/11/16 at 8:24 am to
E-mail sounds simpler and easier for both you and the employees. Why complicate things?
Posted by HeadyMurphey
Los Santos
Member since Jan 2008
17185 posts
Posted on 11/11/16 at 8:29 am to
Google docs/Drive would achieve this. It could be updated throughout the day and they would always have access to the latest info
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
61498 posts
Posted on 11/11/16 at 9:17 am to
You should be able to do that with Word. You'd create and share the document and they could access it in the Word app on their phone.
Posted by LSshoe
Burrowing through a pile o MikePoop
Member since Jan 2008
4009 posts
Posted on 11/11/16 at 11:30 am to
Other than the amount of space daily pdfs might take in users mailboxes, email seems the easiest route. Don't know what y'all use for email but if Google then I'd support the Google docs suggestion. If 365 you could utilize that as well. Another possibility is setting up a Drupal or WordPress type simple cms web server and post to it every day. Employees could fetch from there. Would take a little work to set up initially, but shouldn't be hard to use for users or uploaders. Just another thought.
Posted by Hu_Flung_Pu
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2013
22164 posts
Posted on 11/11/16 at 11:57 am to
I'd do Google docs and use excel or word.
Posted by bbap
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2006
96013 posts
Posted on 11/11/16 at 12:10 pm to
google drive
Posted by Layabout
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2011
11082 posts
Posted on 11/11/16 at 1:00 pm to
quote:

Google docs/Drive would achieve this. It could be updated throughout the day and they would always have access to the latest info



But they would have no way of knowing that the information had changed unless they logged in and checked. Of course you could send them an e-mail to tell them that the info had been updated, but then why not just put the information in the e-mail itself?
Posted by MrSmith
Member since Sep 2009
8311 posts
Posted on 11/11/16 at 1:41 pm to
You can set it to notify all participants
Posted by bbap
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2006
96013 posts
Posted on 11/11/16 at 2:15 pm to
quote:

You can set it to notify all participants



This
Posted by LSUtigerME
Walker, LA
Member since Oct 2012
3796 posts
Posted on 11/12/16 at 8:31 am to
Sharepoint would also accomplish this if you had a sharepoint server setup.

But Google Drive is probably the simplest answer if starting from nothing.
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
Member since Mar 2008
40599 posts
Posted on 11/12/16 at 9:26 am to
I'd just send a group email. It's dead simple and you don't have enough people to be worth spending lots of time and money on something fancier.

I wouldn't even bother with a shared site, like Google Docs, Dropbox, or 365. Emails also give you a history of what each truck's schedule was on a given day, that could be useful.
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