On Sep 17, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
I would like to start working on connecting the temporal expressions
code to recurring events. Before I begin, I want to make sure I
understand the requirements and where things should land.
The WorkEffort entity already has a RecurrenceInfoId field, so
adding a temporal expression ID field to that is obvious.
Yep, sounds good.
What about a personal calendar? Where are those recurring events
kept? They aren't related to a work effort or a work schedule.
Why would a personal calendar be any different from any other calendar
event? Calendar events go in the WorkEffort entity.
What about an employee work schedule? I want to assign an employee
to work in the roof department from 8am to 5pm, Monday through
Friday, with a lunch break from 12:00 to 12:30pm. Where would those
recurring events go?
Here's what I wrote in Jira OFBIZ-1956: "To push this further, and to
answer Jacques' question: the WorkEffort entity is already designed to
handle work schedules using the WorkEffortType "Available" (ID:
AVAILABLE)."
In addition Jacopo added some demo data that I put together for
another project that shows how this would look (pretty much exactly,
actually) with the old recurrence records (also in that same issue):
<!-- Standard Work Schedule Schedules: work availability of 8 hours
per day, from Monday to Friday -->
<RecurrenceRule recurrenceRuleId="SCHED_STD_40HR_WK" frequency="DAILY"
intervalNumber="1" countNumber="-1"
byHourList="09,10,11,13,14,15,16,17" byDayList="MO,TU,WE,TH,FR"/>
<RecurrenceInfo recurrenceInfoId="SCHED_STD_40HR_WK"
startDateTime="2008-01-01 00:00:00.000"
recurrenceRuleId="SCHED_STD_40HR_WK" recurrenceCount="0"/>
<WorkEffort workEffortId="SCHED_STD_40HR_WK"
workEffortTypeId="AVAILABLE" scopeEnumId="WES_PRIVATE"
workEffortName="Work Schedule Full Time (40 hrs/wk)"
recurrenceInfoId="SCHED_STD_40HR_WK"/>
For the future let's do the same thing except instead of a
recurrenceInfoId on the WorkEffort have a temporalExpressionId.
Does that make sense, or were you looking for something else?
-David
