Developing an Online Leave Application (OLA) / Mohd Ikhsan Md Raus

This project prepared for Administration Department under Faculty of
Information Technology and Quantitative Science (FITQS). The prototype of Online
Leave Application (OLA) enables staff from this faculty to interact with the system. The
target users are academic staffs, which are lecturers, non-academic staffs and
administrator. This system contains common online information of staffs, ease to apply
the leave, ease submitting the approval applied leave, ease to retrieve up to date of leave
information. The main concern is on how staff from anywhere can apply the leave at
anytime they want within the UiTM. The objective of this system is to automate the
processes of applying and approving the leave. Besides that, it also supported by other
functions such as view calendar leave information. Researcher has adopted the research
methodology model from book entitled Object-Oriented System Analysis and Design
using UML (Simon Bennett, Steve McRobb and Ray Farmer, 2002). Researcher has
discussed a lot about the result and findings of knowledge acquisition in the early part of
this chapter. This project was conducted using open source technology, which using the
OpenACS web application framework including the AOLserver web server, TCL
scripting language, and the PostgreSQL relational database management system
(RDBMS).