Open Event: Planning the Scheduler UI

{ Repost from my personal bloghttps://blog.codezero.xyz/planning-the-scheduler-ui/ }

In the first phase of the GSoC coding period, Saptak Sengupta and myself have been working on the Scheduler UI.

The Scheduler UI would allow the organizers to graphically schedule/manage the sessions in their conference/event.

Event-Organizer by Josh Greco has been a major inspiration for the timeline design. The css styles have been borrowed from that project.

After some research, we have decided to use the interact.js javascript library for implementing drag-drop and resizing functionality to the project and lodash for array/collection manipulations and for some useful utility functions.

The following tasks have been formulated:

  • Drag-and-drop interface to add session blocks into a timeline
  • Resize sessions to change time
  • load live data from the server using the API
  • Handle session clashes within a track properly
  • Add Track button that opens up a modal to add a track.
  • Search option for unscheduled sessions
  • Save each session change/update using the API
  • Option to Export timeline as pdf
  • Option to export timeline/calendar as iCal

An umbrella issue (#349) has been created in the open-event-orga-serverrespository to track the progress. There will be a separate issue created for each task when that task is being worked upon and the same would be referred to in the umbrella issue.

We are targeting GSOC 2016: Milestone 4 (Due by June 12, 2016) to finish the Scheduler UI and we are confident that we’ll be able to reach our target. *fingers-crossed* :sweat_smile:

To know more about the Scheduler UI, read Enhancing the Open Event Server: Scheduler UI.

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