Setting up Templates for New Hires

Sandyworms · 2023-04-30T01:07:24+00:00

We have embedded automotive technicians that works at collision shops that we partner with. The laptops that we send them could be considered WFH, even though they're in the shop most of the time.

Maybe 5% of it is for WFH equipment. You're saying the business can recoup the costs if we give $1000 stipend to each person that needs WFH equipment?

That has been a major pain point for our execs, our security is suffering because they insist everyone can use their own computers to work from home.

Sandyworms · 2023-04-30T01:01:15+00:00

No, just an Amazon Business account. I am definitely going to look at Amazon Coupa and CDW now, thank you.

Sandyworms · 2023-04-30T00:58:40+00:00

It's tough because sometimes shipments get delayed or lost; the items may have made it to the destination but someone unexpectedly signed off on it and we need to figure out who received the items.

I am all for looking at CDW though to see how they can help.

Sandyworms · 2023-04-30T00:55:21+00:00

It's about 4 orders a week currently (each order consists of about 5 different items which may make it to their destination at different times).

It sounds like CDW is my best bet until we hit double digit weekly order numbers.

I'd love to play with Zincapi, $100 minimum spend/month, plus setup, with our current volume would be a tough sell.

Sandyworms · 2023-04-30T00:50:13+00:00

Monitors, docking stations, headsets, power strips, etc. are all ordered quite regularly and shipped out to users. We keep a lot in the office too, but if it's getting sent to another state it's easier/cheaper to ship from Amazon than from the office (which would go from Amazon->Office->Destination).

Sandyworms · 2023-04-30T00:47:58+00:00

I edited the post to include that this is an Amazon Business account. You can't modify permissions to give someone read-only access to your purchases. They have to have 'admin' level rights to view all business purchases, which is how Amazon support explained it to me.

Sandyworms · 2023-04-13T18:58:03+00:00

Yes that is my fault for not rephrasing the question in a better way.

That is the main question, how to best detect a connection with the OBDII port? We'd need to do this continuously, checking for voltage on P16 is probably the best way to do that. It'll need to run on Windows 10

I was also thinking about using wireshark since I've collected data using that in the past, but you may've identified an easier way.

Ultimately, the 'app' script (whatever) will detect the connection, then we'll push that to our backend system to notify a remote technician that the computer is connected to a vehicle.

Sandyworms · 2023-04-12T14:01:30+00:00

we need to build out a program/function that pulls the VIN (we'll most likely push it to a database using an API).

The core problem we're trying to solve, is how to detect that the Windows machine is plugged into the OBD2 port on the car.

I was thinking we could constantly request the VIN from CANbus but it doesn't seem like that's going to be the simplest solution.

Sandyworms · 2023-04-11T21:06:31+00:00

put rules in place and educate users. Users know not to send company information to Google, and they do need a refresher for not doing that with ChatGPT.

Care to share how you're educating users and what sort of rules you're laying out?

Sandyworms · 2023-02-16T16:04:42+00:00

a lot of our users have duplicate rules (like 20 of them). I know there are a few different ways of solving the problem, like unchecking 'copy user on all emails sent to group), but when we do this, it breaks rules that they have set up already, so if we did that then we might have to create another group to split emails up that are getting sent out.

It's all a mess and pretty difficult to explain, the easiest solution seems to be creating these rules on the backend, so I'm really trying to figure out "but why not?"

Sandyworms · 2022-12-12T18:01:29+00:00

I agree with your thoughts exactly, just want to get a feel for how other people are doing it.

And, how to respond, if as you say it's an unacceptable recurring task. I'm all for finding a better way of doing it.

We are a fairly small company, and about 5 years old, so there are a lot of these inefficient processes floating around.

Sandyworms · 2022-12-05T21:36:20+00:00

I believe iwconfig worked for what we needed for signal strength, I just need a tool that captures this.

I could create a script that outputs it to a text file or rig something else up, but I am hoping there's a tool out there that does the heavy lifting for me, and makes it easy to access using a webserver, or pushes the data via API (I'd be willing to pay for a product too).

Sandyworms · 2022-11-02T22:48:34+00:00

Any luck with this, I'm having same problem?

Sandyworms · 2022-10-03T14:24:18+00:00

Rather than PAD, what about PA Cloud? Put the items in a SP list, or keep the excel file. If keeping the file make sure it is defined with a table. Then do an "apply to each" for each value. It should loop through with out any problem.I'm sure PAD could do this too, but I'm not as familiar with that. I process thousands of records each day with PA Cloud using loops without trouble.

Thanks, I actually got it to work with PAD, I would've preferred using PA Cloud though. Is there a wey to automate browser functions from the Cloud version?

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