phpScheduleIt2 alpha 1 feedback wanted!

[Nick]

is there any install docs

I'm finishing up the reservation approval code now then I plan on moving onto the installer/install docs.  Hopefully within a week or so.

[Nick]

1. Do you have a date/estimate for the release of version 2 (beta)?
2. How will the quota page work (since I also get the error)? We now have a quota system where users use up quota per item categorie, so that eventually they'll run out and won't be able to reserve these kinds of items anymore. Is you quota-system anything similar?

1. Something appears to be broken with my nightly refresh.  I'll fix this.

2. Sounds similar.  You can set quotas for groups, resources and schedules by time or number of reservations.  Quotas are aggregated, so if you set up a quota for 3 reservations per week and a quota of 2 hours per week, whichever get's hit first will win.

[Nick]

Can you add the ADD USER feature? It doesn't seem to be there..

That's one I started working on then stopped.  If you're interested I'd love to get some help building this piece.

[stevenpostma]

Thanks for the reply Nick!

Can't wait to start testing this with our own users and resources. Looking forward to the installer.

Is it possible to edit the Style Sheets, so I can make it look like the rest of our website?

[bpdiomus]

Hi Nick! Great app!

I've tried phpScheduleIt and i have one question about approvals.

Could it be possible to have an additional option such as "Proposal" which would consist of proposing to the client, that already placed a reservation, a better solution that fits his needs?

And thanks for sharing to community!  

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Added : Oops, i messed the manage_schedule.php. I tried to put the whole day as one reservation block. I thought of 3600 s in an hour... i dunno why i put 3600 minutes in there but i did and i just understood why it fucked. I guess, if the bigger block we can make is one day, i guess it needs a check for no more than 1440 minutes.

[arena]

Allow me to join the chorus requesting the installer for this wonderful scheduler. It's exactly what I need and I love the polish of 2.0! In addition

Main missing ones (for me) are adding billing rates to Resources (rooms), a discount rate for a user together with billing address etc and the ability to create invoices etc. Can you contact me if this is of interest? Steve

Billing rates and invoice for resources would make this the complete solution that I need. I've only started php a week ago, but if you have any low-hanging fruit I'm willing to help.

EDIT: I tried creating a new schedule and found a bug. Since I want a schedule with no blackouts, I went to 'Change Layout' and starting adding Reservable Time Slots all the way to 23:30 - 24:00. However I found that if you include 23:30 - 24:00, your changes are NOT saved. Also, hitting the 'Update' button when doing 'Change Layout' should save changes and refresh the 'Manage Schedules' so that the user can see the changes applied

PS: Sorry I broke your demo. I was trying to get this unlimited schedule to work and now going to 'Manage Schedule' gives the following errors:

Code:

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /home/nkorbel/public_html/demo2/Domain/ScheduleLayout.php on line 96

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/nkorbel/public_html/demo2/Domain/ScheduleLayout.php on line 96

Fatal error: Call to a member function Timezone() on a non-object in /home/nkorbel/public_html/demo2/Domain/ScheduleLayout.php on line 96

Also, I installed the development version on my PC, how do I set up an administrator account so I can start messing it up?

[phpNoob]

Tried to do an event "booking".

I set the title as "Session Title"
Description "Session Description"
did not put anything in users or anything else.  Did not change the times/repeating/etc..

here is the error "Fatal error: Cannot use object of type DateDiff as array in /home/nkorbel/public_html/demo2/lib/Common/Resources.php on line 93"

Hope it helps

[Nick]

Could it be possible to have an additional option such as "Proposal" which would consist of proposing to the client, that already placed a reservation, a better solution that fits his needs?

Do reservation invitations work, or do you need something more elegant?

i guess it needs a check for no more than 1440 minutes.

Agreed.  There is no validation around that.

[Nick]

Should be very simple to add more style sheets.  How about a setting to include additional style sheets?  That way you can simply override what you don't like without having to change any of the code.

[Nick]

Billing rates and invoice for resources would make this the complete solution that I need. I've only started php a week ago, but if you have any low-hanging fruit I'm willing to help.

I'd love any help at all.  I have some ideas around billing/invoice that should make it easy easy to plug in.

how do I set up an administrator account so I can start messing it up?

There is a "Click here to register" link on the login page.  Just register a user with your configured admin email address and you're off.

[Nick]

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type DateDiff as array in /home/nkorbel/public_html/demo2/lib/Common/Resources.php on line 93

Thanks!  I'll try and reproduce this.

[Nick]

So today's release brings some invisible enhancements as well as group roles.

Group Roles: Role assignments are now at the group level instead of the user level.  This means you can add users to the Application Admin group to give them full admin rights.  You can add them to a specific Group Admin group to give them those rights.  Eventually Schedule and Resource Admins will be handled the same way.

Under the covers:  Authorization, Authentication and Permissions are now pluggable.  This means you can write your own services for each of these components without changing one line of phpScheduleIt code.

[marklewis3]

Very nice.  Let me know how I can help.  I would be willing to beta test this as well.

Water Heaters

[Nick]

Ok, the moment of truth arrives.  The first alpha package is available for download!

There is a bundled readme.html which should explain how to get up and running.  I would love feedback on anything and everything good and bad, including the documentation (which is very light at this point), the installation process, the application UI, workflow, missing features, awesome features, bugs, etc.

I hope to keep the hosted demo and the alpha packages somewhat in sync as we work towards an official 2.0 release.

Thanks again to everyone who has been submitting feedback so far.  This continues to be extremely valuable.

[Art]

Nick,

I was just now trying out your demo.  It worked fine for awhile, then I started getting the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type DateDiff as array in /home/nkorbel/public_html/demo2/lib/Common/Resources.php on line 93

I was trying to create a reservation that went past midnight and got the error.  Now I get an the above error for any reservation length that I try to create.

I found the source of the error.  As admin I had changed the minimum reservation time to one hour and the max to two hours.  As a user, I keep missing the correct length of time.
You should trap the error, informing the user what the problem is and let him correct it instead of throwing an exception that freezes the app.

Art