Hi Adrian,
Thanks for your reply. Now I have the calender schedule setup to certain
extent. May be you can tell me If I am wrong again.
I tested it with two schedules basically.
1. A customer is available on Morning, Afternoon and Evening on Saturday and
Sunday. The schedule in all view (day, week, month) of the calender is
showing up correctly. I set up this as following.
Union:
Intersection:
HourRange(08,00)
MinuteRange(00,00)
Union:
DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Saturday)
DayOfWeekRange(Sunday, Sunday)
Intersection:
HourRange(12,00)
MinuteRange(00,00)
Union:
DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Saturday)
DayOfWeekRange(Sunday, Sunday)
Intersection:
HourRange(16,00)
MinuteRange(00,00)
Union:
DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Saturday)
DayOfWeekRange(Sunday, Sunday)
2. I extended this schedule to include Monday and Tuesday morning slot so
added these days in the union expression for morning.
Union:
Intersection:
HourRange(08,00)
MinuteRange(00,00)
Union:
DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Saturday)
DayOfWeekRange(Sunday, Sunday)
DayOfWeekRange(Monday, Monday)
DayOfWeekRange(Tuesday, Tuesday)
Intersection:
HourRange(12,00)
MinuteRange(00,00)
Union:
DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Saturday)
DayOfWeekRange(Sunday, Sunday)
Intersection:
HourRange(16,00)
MinuteRange(00,00)
Union:
DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Saturday)
DayOfWeekRange(Sunday, Sunday)
Results:
1. Month view is coming fine i.e. event is showing up on Saturday, Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday.
2. Week view - Event is not showing up for Sunday but is coming fine for
rest of the three days.
3. Day view - Monday 8 AM is only showing up.
Expected:
#2 - Event should show up on Sunday as well in week view.
#3 - Event should show up on Tuesday 8 AM and on all the three slots for
Saturday and Sunday in day view.
Either again I am not setting up it correctly or this could be a problem
with the events not rendered correctly on the calendar.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Regards
Vikas
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Adrian Crum <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are a few things wrong here.
>
> I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of difference. A difference is
> a logical AND NOT. So, the exclude expression should be temporally included
> in the include expression. Example: Include Monday through Friday, but
> exclude Wednesday under certain conditions.
>
> You can't use a difference expression to indicate when a user is not
> available. That isn't its purpose.
>
> User availability is called transparency in Work Effort. So, you need to
> set up two work efforts - one for when the user is available, and one for
> when the user isn't available. Set each work effort's transparency
> accordingly. Then create two temporal expressions - one for available and
> one for not available. Then assign those expressions to the appropriate work
> efforts.
>
> The calendar should show the two schedules. You can then write code around
> the transparency.
>
> -Adrian
>
>
> Vikas Mayur wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First of all sorry for the long post.
>>
>> I was working on a problem where I have to schedule a week per user. The
>> schedule of all the upcoming weeks remains the same until user do any
>> changes. A day of the week is divided into 3 slots namely Morning,
>> Afternoon
>> and Evening.
>>
>> User may or may not be available on a particular slot on a particular day
>> of
>> the week. I need to capture this data for every customer in the system.
>>
>> The data will be used by the administrator to send invitation to those
>> user
>> that are available on the same slot on a particular day.
>>
>> For this I have divided 12 hrs schedule of a day into three slots of 4
>> hrs
>> namely a Morning slot from 0800hr 1200hr, afternoon slot from 1200hr to
>> 1600hr and evening slot from 1600hr to 2000hr.
>>
>> Then I created the schedule for a user as below.
>>
>> Union:
>> Difference: // RESULT: User is available in morning slot on Saturday
>> and
>> Sunday only.
>> Include:
>> Intersection: // User is available in morning slot for entire
>> week.
>> MinuteRange(0, 0)
>> HourRange(08, 08) // Starts at 0800hr
>> DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Sunday)
>> Exclude:
>> Intersection: // User is not available in morning slot from
>> Monday thru Friday
>> DayOfWeekRange(Monday, Friday)
>> Difference: // User is available in afternoon slots on Saturday and
>> Sunday only.
>> Include:
>> Intersection:
>> MinuteRange(0, 0)
>> HourRange(12, 12) // Starts at 1200hr
>> DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Sunday)
>> Exclude:
>> Intersection:
>> DayOfWeekRange(Monday, Friday)
>> Difference: // User is available in evening slot for entire week except
>> on Saturday and Sunday.
>> Include:
>> Intersection:
>> MinuteRange(0, 0)
>> HourRange(16, 16) // Starts at 1600hr
>> DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Sunday)
>> Exclude:
>> Intersection:
>> DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Saturday)
>> DayOfWeekRange(Sunday, Sunday)
>>
>>
>> When I see the schedule in the Work Effort > Calendar, the calendar is
>> only
>> showing up event for Saturday and Sunday (user is available in morning and
>> afternoon slots on these two days and which is correct) and not for rest
>> of
>> the week days. The calendar should have also shown that user is available
>> from Monday to Friday in evening slot.
>>
>> I also tried with the simple way as below but the results being different
>> and not as expected as mentioned.
>>
>> Union:
>> Intersection:
>> MinuteRange(0, 0)
>> HourRange(08, 08) // Starts at 0800hr
>> DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Sunday) // Saturday and Sunday
>> user
>> is available in morning slot.
>> Intersection:
>> MinuteRange(0, 0)
>> HourRange(12, 12) // Starts at 1200hr
>> DayOfWeekRange(Saturday, Sunday) // Saturday and Sunday
>> user is available in afternoon slot.
>> Intersection:
>> MinuteRange(0, 0)
>> HourRange(16, 16) // Starts at 1600hr
>> DayOfWeekRange(Monday, Friday) // Monday thru Friday
>> user is available in evening slot.
>>
>>
>> In XML the data is below (using the first approach)
>>
>> <!-- Entire week morning available -->
>> <TemporalExpression tempExprId="MORNING_AVAIL"
>> tempExprTypeId="INTERSECTION"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="MORNING_AVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="HOUR_08"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="MORNING_AVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="MINUTE_00"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="MORNING_AVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="SAT_TO_SUN"/>
>>
>> <!-- Days when not available in morning -->
>> <TemporalExpression tempExprId="MORNING_UNAVAIL"
>> tempExprTypeId="INTERSECTION"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="MORNING_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_02"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="MORNING_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_03"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="MORNING_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_04"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="MORNING_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_05"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="MORNING_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_06"/>
>>
>> <!-- Entire week morning conflicts will determine the days when a user
>> is
>> available or not -->
>> <TemporalExpression tempExprId="MORNING_CONFLICTS"
>> tempExprTypeId="DIFFERENCE"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="MORNING_CONFLICTS"
>> toTempExprId="MORNING_AVAIL" exprAssocType="INCLUDE"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="MORNING_CONFLICTS"
>> toTempExprId="MORNING_UNAVAIL" exprAssocType="EXCLUDE"/>
>>
>> <!-- Afternoon -->
>> <TemporalExpression tempExprId="AFTERNOON_AVAIL"
>> tempExprTypeId="INTERSECTION"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="AFTERNOON_AVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="HOUR_12"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="AFTERNOON_AVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="MINUTE_00"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="AFTERNOON_AVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="SAT_TO_SUN"/>
>>
>> <TemporalExpression tempExprId="AFTERNOON_UNAVAIL"
>> tempExprTypeId="INTERSECTION"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="AFTERNOON_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_02"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="AFTERNOON_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_03"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="AFTERNOON_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_04"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="AFTERNOON_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_05"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="AFTERNOON_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_06"/>
>>
>> <TemporalExpression tempExprId="AFTERNOON_CONFLICTS"
>> tempExprTypeId="DIFFERENCE"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="AFTERNOON_CONFLICTS"
>> toTempExprId="AFTERNOON_AVAIL" exprAssocType="INCLUDE"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="AFTERNOON_CONFLICTS"
>> toTempExprId="AFTERNOON_UNAVAIL" exprAssocType="EXCLUDE"/>
>>
>> <!-- Evening -->
>> <TemporalExpression tempExprId="EVENING_AVAIL"
>> tempExprTypeId="INTERSECTION"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="EVENING_AVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="HOUR_16"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="EVENING_AVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="MINUTE_00"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="EVENING_AVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="SAT_TO_SUN"/>
>>
>> <TemporalExpression tempExprId="EVENING_UNAVAIL"
>> tempExprTypeId="INTERSECTION"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="EVENING_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_01"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="EVENING_UNAVAIL"
>> toTempExprId="DAYOFWEEK_07"/>
>>
>> <TemporalExpression tempExprId="EVENING_CONFLICTS"
>> tempExprTypeId="DIFFERENCE"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="EVENING_CONFLICTS"
>> toTempExprId="EVENING_AVAIL" exprAssocType="INCLUDE"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="EVENING_CONFLICTS"
>> toTempExprId="EVENING_UNAVAIL" exprAssocType="EXCLUDE"/>
>>
>> <!-- Week Conflicts -->
>> <TemporalExpression tempExprId="WEEK_CONFLICTS"
>> tempExprTypeId="UNION"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="WEEK_CONFLICTS"
>> toTempExprId="MORNING_CONFLICTS"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="WEEK_CONFLICTS"
>> toTempExprId="AFTERNOON_CONFLICTS"/>
>> <TemporalExpressionAssoc fromTempExprId="WEEK_CONFLICTS"
>> toTempExprId="EVENING_CONFLICTS"/>
>>
>> <WorkEffort workEffortId="DEMO_CUSTOMER_CONF" workEffortTypeId="EVENT"
>> currentStatusId="CAL_CONFIRMED" lastStatusUpdate="2010-04-16 16:21:58.619"
>> scopeEnumId="WES_PUBLIC" workEffortName="Week Conflicts"
>> sendNotificationEmail="Y" estimatedStartDate="2010-01-01 08:00:10.274"
>> tempExprId="WEEK_CONFLICTS" revisionNumber="1" createdDate="2010-04-16
>> 16:21:58.619" createdByUserLogin="admin"/>
>> <WorkEffortPartyAssignment workEffortId="DEMO_CUSTOMER_CONF"
>> partyId="DemoCustomer" roleTypeId="CAL_OWNER" fromDate="2010-04-16
>> 16:21:58.812" statusId="PRTYASGN_ASSIGNED"/>
>>
>> I have no idea where I am doing it wrong since second approach is a very
>> simple (at least I was expecting correct result with it).
>>
>> Does anyone have ever setup similar rules based on temporal expressions?
>> OR
>> I am just struggling with any sort of bugs?
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>> Vikas
>>
>>
