[dev] Adding conflict checking to kronolith

[Jeff Warnica]

I have no idea about the inner workings of kronolith, nor for that
matter have I used any of the COTS groupware. But I believe that that
"resources", rooms, projectors and the like, are treated as special case
people rather then something completely different. You can browse the
availability of thing X just like you can a person, invite thing X just
as a person (and assuming it is free, and potentially you have the right
permissions, accepts automatically), etc. Something to think about
anyway..

On Fri, 2004-01-10 at 16:25 -0700, Jason Rust wrote:
> We use kronolith as a calendar for keeping track of who is using what 
> conference room.  However, there are some users who don't bother to check if 
> a room is already reserved before making their reservation thus causing 
> double-bookings.  To resolve this issue we are thinking of adding conflict 
> checking to kronolith.  I am in the beginning stages of working out how it 
> would work, but the two major changes I see happening would be:
> 1. Location would become a select box (only in this mode) instead of a text 
> box so as to ensure that a room could be uniquely identified.  The list of 
> locations would be a pref.
> 2. Before the event is added it would check to make sure that an event with 
> the same location is not occuring during the requested time (only in this 
> mode).
> 
> I have a couple questions.  Would the kronolith team be interested in 
> implementing this into the app if I write it?  Would this be duplicating 
> someone else's effort (i.e. does a feature like this already exist either in 
> kronolith or one of the other apps)?
>