On 10/8/05, Tim Kamps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom, > > Thanks for the detailed info you updated on the documentation site. I see > how to overlay calendars and have also fixed the permissions issue now. So > now for my next issue....
Glad we're making progress (and getting some documentation on the site). > Timetables. It appears that my Timetable for our HS > got entered and somewhere I did see the times entered, but when I view the > calendar, it shows the periods of the day, but in the wrong order. When I > try to view the timetable to edit it, I don't seem to be able to. I may have > entered them as 12HR and not 24HR time, so that might be the issue. Can one > modify a timetable? I can see only a "Change timetable for one day" in the > Actions links. Yes, it seems like the 12/24 hour thing is what caused the problem. That's a usability bug on our part. Given a tight development schedule, we decided not to allow timetables to be modified or deleted once created, because accidentally deleting one in the middle of a term could be catastrophic, and the implications changing them are pretty messy, too (should events that were booked to start and end in sync with the old timetable also be changed, etc.). Nothing impossible, but likely a source of many unpredictable behaviors if done in a hurry. So, just make a fresh timetable, make it the default, and ignore the broken one. > Once I get that fixed my next question would be whether one can reserve a > resource by the hour or day so that it fits the timetable? Teachers should > be able to pick it by checking the days or hours/periods rather than having > to enter HH:MM in 24HR time. Right. When the teacher clicks on their calendar in the row next to the period time, the event add form will contain the start and end time of that period. If they need to, they can change those times manually. > Thinking further down the road, what is the relationship between the > timetables and resources? Can I have multiple timetables for different > buildings on SchoolTool so that resources in one building can be tied to > certain timetables? Our schools have different timetables (start/stop, > number of periods, etc). There is a bit of a gap between what is possible with the data model and what is supported in the web UI. Right now, you pick one site-wide timetable that determines what periods are used in the calendar views. For your use case, we'd need to allow users to select which timetable was used in their calendar view. That wouldn't be too hard, especially since we've improved our user preferences code. On the other hand, we're not likely to do that as part of the paid development in the short term. > PS: The session that I heard about SchoolTools at NECC was at a > panel/roundtable remote w/ skype discussion that Will Richardson was part > of. Oh yeah, I was on that panel. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
