We’ve trialled a calendar application and I think feed back from actual users might be useful to the SC5 developers. Some of the issues my users raised I have already highlighted elsewhere.
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A major failing is that users can all too easily “nudge” an event into another timeslot without realizing they have done so. This is very dangerous when the application is time critical, as in a service booking diary application. On the programming side, there are no events or triggers I can see that allow an alert to be raised when an event is dragged and dropped. It’s something that needs to be resolved quickly if the calendar is to be used in any meaningful way. I’m currently working around this by maintaining a reference date and time field in the data table. Very tedious.
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On the day calendar it would be useful to limit the display to the hours of activity, for example by defining a time range like 8:00am to 5:00pm, instead of displaying the full 24 hours.
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The caption field could be longer, say 128 instead of 64 chars.
4)( As mentioned elsewhere, it would also be useful to be able to calculate the caption field in the application rather than the in the database table
- Colour coding of events would be an excellent innovation
Cheers