Currently, there are people scheduling events for locations at the university where I work using an excel document. They have all of the locations listed down the side and all of the times listed across the top. They then just drag to highlight blocks of time, label them and color them.
I need to recreate this in Flex. It would appear that essentially I'm needing to make a gannt chart of sorts, although the resource in this case is a location, not a person. Locations have the potential to be empty or in use. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this best? When I've tried working with an ADG, I'm not able to represent empty rooms well and am not able to drag to highlight an area. One thing they want to be able to do, also, is select a specific time for multiple locations (highlighting vertically) as well as multiple times for one location (like you would in excel). Any ideas on anything else I should be looking into would be appreciated. The ILOG Elixir Gantt charts look a lot like what I need to do, but we can't afford to pay the $800 for the license.
