Resources - Add, Delete & Modify to an Activity

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mikez posted over 16 years ago

I can easily add a resource to a NEW Activity through code.

Is there a way to add a resource when using AppointmentAdd.aspx?

How do I ADD a resource to an existing Activity?

How do I MODIFY a resource from an existing Activity?

How do I DELETE a resource from an existing Activity?

thanks,
mikez

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Derek Harmon posted over 16 years ago

There is a one-to-one relationship between an Activity and the Resource which owns it. Therefore when you think you can easily add a resource to a new Activity, it really is that you can easily create an Activity having a resource (through the Activity's ResourceKey property, no doubt).

There is no way when using the Add/Edit Appointment dialog UI to attach additional Resources to the Activity. A newly added Activity will be owned by the WebScheduleInfo's ActiveResource by default.

You can modify the resource that owns an Activity by changing its ResourceKey to refer to a different resource and updating your underlying data source; the include data provider controls feature an administrative API ( UpdateActivity(Activity) ) that you can call to update an Activity outside normal WebSchedule operations. If you do update several activities, you should batch them together early in page processing and re-call DataBind( ) on the WebScheduleInfo so that the Activities rendered to the views are the latest and most up-to-date ones.

An Activity must always have a Resource that owns it. You can effectively detach the Resource from the Activity by changing it's ResourceKey to that of the Unassigned Resource.
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Offline mikez posted over 16 years ago in reply to Derek Harmon

Derek,

Thanks for the reply.

The AppointmentAdd.aspx/ascx could easily add a dropdownlist of Resources so the user could create or modify an appointment along with the "Resource". It would seem logical that this would be what a user would want to do without having to get a developer to make code changes.

Sometimes everyone thinks only in the terms of writing code. Since the AppointmentAdd.ascx lets a user do everything else, Add Appointment, Delete Appointment, Recurrence, why not allow them to change the "Resource" also?

thanks again,
mikez
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Cody Campbell posted over 12 years ago in reply to mikez

I'm working with the latest 2012 ASP.NET Advantage release, and I am also facing problems when trying to add multiple resources to a single appoitment. Looking in the on-line documentaiton, it appears the data model is asking for an ID to tie the two values together; however I do not see any way to add multiple with the currwent API. I saw the link above, but before I dig into that method, I am wondering if Infragistics has made any progress in addressing this request, given the age of this thread.
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Offline mikez posted over 16 years ago in reply to Derek Harmon

Derek,

I will be suggesting several new features. Thanks for the link....
One topic I would like to mention is that it seems like the "WebSchedule Dev Team" does have a plan. The problem is that their "looking forward" plan is not clear to the rest of us (at least me anyway).

My interpretation of using the WebSchedule
1. Intended as a "multi-user" action/event/appointment solution requiring nearly no code for the developer.
2. "Unassigned" resource is intended for public events (currently works with no code required).
3. Named resources are intended for conference rooms, private events and "individual users" (custom code required).
4. Displaying by each resource is accomplished by setting the WebScheduleInfo1.ActiveResourceName
5. Future features may include similar features of MS OutLook.
6. Currently no non-coding way to add, delete or modify Resources attached to an action.
7. Custom "stored-procedures" can be used to manipulate all current tables (I am guessing here).

Is there a WebSchedule document from the "WebSchedule Dev Team" highlighting future plans but most importantly what the current version can and cannot do, what should be customised and what should not?

There are pieces of the above information scattered throughout the help docs but nothing that puts everything together in one place. I am looking for a nearly complete WebSchedule control(s) that allows the user to do most common functions with me simply presenting the WebSchedule controls on one or more pages.

I will direct my feature requests to the link you provided. My comments above are intended to better communication how I think things work.

thanks,
mikez
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Derek Harmon posted over 16 years ago in reply to mikez

It could certainly be a good improvement, Mike.

Presently, the WebSchedule does not support having Multiple Resources per appointment as a feature, so the only resource an appointment knows is its owner. Some have observed that the data model can support associating multiple resources with an activity, the ActivityResources table was designed with this kind of extensibility in mind by the WebSchedule Dev Team. But as you probably know in software development, a line has to be drawn somewhere as far as how many features can get included while still shipping on time.

You can suggest this as a feature:
http://devcenter.infragistics.com/Protected/RequestFeature.aspx

If you want a look at an example of handling multiple resources outside of the schedule views in the WebSchedule, then there is a Resource Administration sample.
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