MAUI project used by laboratory assistants.
A cross-platform MAUI application that unifies buffer inventory, daily workload tracking, and weekly planning in a single, highly visual workspace. Color-coded lanes and progress overlays give laboratory assistants instant context, making complex workflows self-explanatory. The current data store is JSON, but the pluggable persistence layer is ready for MS Access or SQL Server. Every record can be copied, moved, edited, deleted, or restored, and assistants can step through each processing stage—ensuring complete control, full traceability, and effortless auditing.
Adhering to a strict coding paradigm makes solutions easier to maintain and oversee.
The weekly view offers a concise, at-a-glance schedule; hovering over any entry reveals full details on demand. In the example shown, the user duplicates a buffer task onto the same day using a simple pop-up with a date-picker.
Binding issues and race conditions were the project’s most frequent challenges.
The Daily view is the workflow hub. Here an assistant advances a buffer’s status by signing off— the signature is validated against their identity via any configured back-end (LDAP(S), OAuth, etc.). Change requests trigger in-place edits, while a one-click “Revert” restores the previous state when needed. Once a buffer is fully completed and countersigned, its card auto-archives and disappears from the active board.
The Archive view uses clear visual cues to distinguish archived from deleted orders and offers a one-click restore so any card removed by mistake can be brought back instantly.
Winforms project used by laboratory workers.
A lightweight, version-controlled Windows Forms application featuring one-click deployment and a splash-screen startup that aggregates server-side Excel data into in-memory arrays, enabling laboratory staff to instantly query approved buffers, standards, and their full ingredient compositions.
Depending on their needs staff can:
- Launch pre-filled email templates for bug reporting or for contacting the laboratory-assistants group
- Open dedicated forms to review recent orders
- View the laboratory assistants’ planning sheet
- Manually trigger a background data refresh
The form runs on direct SQL: at launch it instantly pulls the current storage-location and department lists, and any edits are committed immediately to an MS Access back-end. A companion planning tool (see MAUI project) used by the laboratory assistants polls this database every 15 minutes, keeping their daily workflow continuously in sync.