I have a situation that is causing my users some confusion in regards to the difference in layout between the UltraDayView and UltraTimelineView controls. Shown below are five images which demonstrate my problem.
As can be seen the Owners 'ANA' and 'CSG' both have two appointments each on Feb 27, 2020. CSG's appointments are from 9-10am and 10-11am, and ANA's appointments are from 9-10am and 9.55-10.55am (thus overlapping by an interval of 5 minutes). When viewed in the UltraDayView control CSG's appointments are stacked vertically because there is no overlapping of appointments, however ANA's appointments clearly indicate an overlap by virtue of the horizontal displacement of those two appointments. Regardless of the Primary Interval used for the UltraDayView this is always the case.
When these appointments are viewed in the UltraTimelineView control however those same expectations are not met. The overlap, which is shown as a vertical displacement within this control, is lost once the column width gets below a certain value. Interestingly this seems not to be a problem when the ViewStyle of the associated UltraCalendarLook component is set to Office2003.
Can anyone please provide me with some ideas on how I can always ensure that an overlap is maintained in the UltraTimelineView control?
Hello Tony,
Thanks for provided details and screenshots, but mentioned behavior is by design and at that moment we have not such functionality that could keep the displacement in the UltraTimelineView.
Maybe one possible approach to prevent users confusion could be if you are using CreationFilter to add appropriate text or image at that appoitment like a sign that there are overlpas appointments.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Regards
OK, thanks. I've already started on the CreationFilter and was going to change the background colour of any timeslots that contain overlapping appointments. Not sure how it will go performance wise though.