[kronolith] attendees.php legend
Jan Schneider
jan at horde.org
Mon Nov 30 13:36:48 UTC 2009
Zitat von Serge Chernyavsky <serg.remote at gmail.com>:
> Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Zitat von Serge Chernyavsky <serg.remote at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> when I add an attendee user1 it shows busy cells correctly in
>>> user1's row but cells that should show green (time when user1 is
>>> free) are shown in white which is 'No Information' according to
>>> legend.
>>
>> No, hatched means no information. White is indefinite.
>>
> Maybe worth to add it to legend then...
>
>>> In 'Overview' section it's the opposite: green cells are where
>>> they should be but white cells shown instead the red ones (i.e.
>>> time when user1 (required attendee) is busy).
>>>
>>> Is it correct behavior?
>>
>> Yes. Free/busy information retrieved for the individual attendees
>> can contain free times or busy times. Kronolith for example only
>> provides busy times like most free/busy providers. So what we
>> display in the attendee's row is really the information that has
>> been provided by the attendee.
>>
> Logically I absolutely agree but in terms of usability I'll change
> that for my users from white to green as white confuses them.
>
>> In the summary we show the calculated, merged free/busy time, i.e.
>> we consider any non-busy-by-all-attendees time as a possible event
>> time, and display it green.
>>
> But if a required attendee is busy at hour N shouldn't N's cell be
> displayed in red in Overview section? Currently I see white there
> for both All and Required attendees.
Yeah, maybe. But the important information there is the free time,
i.e. when all attendees are available. I guess that's the rationale
behind that.
It's different in the current development version (for Kronolith 3) though.
Jan.
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