FEATURES:
Building scheduling capabilities into your application requires that you deliver features end-users have come to expect from today’s leading PIMs. An advanced scheduling system is not just about appearances but how information can be presented and processed by end-users in an efficient manner. Building upon the interface options introduced in Microsoft Outlook, the XtraScheduler Suite gives you the ability to create a superior UI with unrivaled flexibility and design options. Once you being using the XtraScheduler Suite, you will find it the most capable product of its kind in the market and loaded with dozens of features that are a simple property setting away from implementation.
Days View and Time Rulers
The Day View offers the most detailed picture of events over a single day or a few days. It displays events within vertical timelines where an event’s top-most edge corresponds to its start time and its bottom-most edge is the finish time. The primary features of this layout option are:
- Work time display - You can specify work hours within the timeline to make scheduling by end-users more efficient.
- Multi-Day View - You can easily change the number of days that are displayed side-by-side. Thus you can view events for a single day or for several days to get a better perspective of free time.
- The current date/time are indicated by a highlighted date header and the current time mark on the time ruler.
- All-day and multi-day events are displayed above the timeline.
- An advanced time ruler with a customizable scale and the ability to display additional time rulers for different time zones.
- Scroll buttons displayed at the top or bottom of time rulers that indicate whether additional events exist in any non-visible region of the Day view. These buttons can be clicked to scroll to the next/previous event.
Week View
The Week View displays events for any given weekly period. Its primary features include:
- The ability to display an event’s start and end times using either digits or clocks.
- Optional suppression of the end time of individual events.
- Buttons which indicate that additional events exist but which did not fit into the screen region. Clicking this button switches the view to the corresponding date.
- Current date indication by highlighting the corresponding date header.
Multi-Week View
The Multi-Week View is the least detailed view and is designed to allow your end users to browse and analyze long-term plans. This view positions days one after another horizontally so that they construct weeks while individual weeks are placed one under another. Its primary features include:
- The automatic coloring of dates which belong to different months.
- Optional weekend compression.
- Optional suppression of event end times.
- Showing event start time as digits or clocks.
- Buttons indicating that additional events exist that don't fit onto the screen region. Clicking this button switches the view to the corresponding date.
- Current date indication by highlighting the corresponding date header.
Multiple Resources Display
The multiple resources display enables your end users to browse several plans (for any entity such as an individual or office location, etc) simultaneously. To enable this feature, you simply need to provide several resources in the bound storage. Each resource is just an ID for a particular plan - it has a unique label and a caption to display within the calendar. As such, it doesn't matter which resource types you need to display - human resources, department resources, etc. Once resources have been created, the scheduler will display several parallel timelines. Below is a brief overview of the features available within the multiple resource view:
- If resources are present, you can specify whether plans should be grouped first by dates or by resources.
- Timelines for different resources are automatically colored. (You can also manually provide colors for resources.)
