--- On Wed, 9/17/08, David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Discussion: Recurring Events
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 5:14 PM
> On Sep 17, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
>
> > David E Jones wrote:
> >> On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
> >>> David E Jones wrote:
> >>>> On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Adrian Crum
> wrote:
> >>>>> David E Jones wrote:
> >>>>>> On Sep 17, 2008, at 2:15 PM,
> Adrian Crum wrote:
> >>>>>>> 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)."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Wouldn't that be confusing? When
> someone is working they are
> >>>>> available? It seems to me someone is
> available if they are *not*
> >>>>> working.
> >>>> That's correct, they're not
> working, they're available for work.
> >>>> In other words those are times when events
> (or tasks with
> >>>> scheduling) can be assigned, or when
> looking at all tasks
> >>>> assigned and their estimated times how
> many days it will take to
> >>>> complete them (and when each will start,
> etc).
> >>>
> >>> Understood.
> >>>
> >>> Okay, one more question (for future reference,
> not having to do
> >>> with recurring events):
> >>>
> >>> In the example I gave above, I need to show
> that the employee is
> >>> working during those hours - that they are
> *not* available. Is
> >>> there a WorkEffortType for that?
> >>>
> >>> I'm coming from the perspective of
> production employees punching a
> >>> time clock. They are supposed to be working
> 8am - 5pm, Monday
> >>> through Friday.
> >> What is it that they're not available for? Do
> you mean when they
> >> are working they are not available? In other
> words, they have a
> >> calendar event that makes them unavailable 8-5
> M-F?
> >
> > That's exactly what I mean. It could be I'm
> used to seeing things
> > from a different perspective than what you're
> describing.
> >
> > I understand the approach you're describing -
> someone is available
> > for work so their work schedule is flagged as
> available. The
> > perspective I'm accustomed to is an employee is
> available for work
> > when they are not already working. They are available
> for work when
> > they are "off."
> >
> > So, I have to look at it differently. An employee is
> "off" when they
> > are not available.
> >
> > No big deal. It will take some getting used to.
>
> If someone has nothing scheduled then all it means is we
> don't know
> anything about their schedule, and it may be that they are
> available
> for an appointment or something. If we look at their
> calendar and see
> "Available" type of events then we know they are
> available for work
> unless there is a specific calendar event scheduled on top
> of the
> availability which would make them unavailable.
>
> Does that help? We could change the description of this
> WorkEffortType
> to be "Available for Work" or something...
No, we don't need to change anything. Like I said, I understand why it's set up
that way. It's just different from how I'm used to picturing it.
-Adrian
