[OGo-Users] Re: [OGo-Developer] Changes to trunk, Testing

[Helge Hess]

On 08.02.2008, at 16:58, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> ah, there it is, thanks for your patience. but this still does not  
> help, for the situation described in the other mail:
> assume two projectors available, projector one is booked in the  
> morning, projector two is booked in the evening, then the third  
> person comes, and wants a projector, for a whole day meeting the  
> same day, then the proposal will not find a free time slot (Got no  
> free time interval).

Thats correct, though the fact is visualized in the resourcemanager.  
(he will see when each of the projectors is booked and can coordinate  
that with the guys).

Not sure how much that is a real world problem. Eg usually the  
resource will not be 100% equal but have an associated 'quality' (eg  
big room, small room), hence will require offline interaction who  
takes what.

> So it is not working as I wanted it to work, but when there would be  
> an "amount" field in the database for a given resource, then this  
> could be made to work.

I think it would be more useful to persist the fact that the user  
selected a 'group' (hence doesn't care which projector he gets).

(As mentioned I don't like the non-identity idea in any case)

> well, I also used the categories in an a bit different way, than you  
> might have intended. E.g. I have a category "Camping", whereas I  
> have a fishing rod, a tent, and other stuff in it. So completely  
> different usage of the resource Categories than you are expecting  
> that it is used.

OK, so you used it for grouping arbitary stuff (as a group, not as a  
category). Thats not what its intended for.
And obviously it doesn't match the scheduling algorithm (in fact its  
exactly the opposite, for fishing you would need all the stuff).

> Personally, I like my broad categorizing ;) but would like to have  
> groups of resources within these categories

Yes, groups of resources are also a nice idea. We might want to add  
that (including the implied semantics, which is 'schedule all  
contained objects').

> where the amount column in the database would help me.

Its very unlikely that I will add an amount.

Thanks,
   Helge
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Helge Hess
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