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Schedule.NET Viewmodes
The schedule can be displayed in 15 modes. This allows great flexibility in the
displaying of your information. You may choose display the time on either the X
or Y axis and the dates on the opposing axis. Moreover, you may wish to include
a Room collection (or any object collection) for each day and oppose time. There
is also a month view and a vertical list view. With so many view modes you will
be able to display your scheduling information in any fashion desired.
The premise behind Gravitybox Schedule.NET is to load once and display many ways.
Appointment information may be very complex. A basic appointment has a date, time,
and length. The length may be so big as to cause the appointment to span multiple
days. In addition, each appointment may have an associated room. This is common
in a doctor office where patients are scheduled for dates, times, and a room. Also
appointments may have one or more assigned categories, for example: surgery, cleaning,
etc. Adding more complexity, you may assign one or more provider (people) to an
appointment. When you take all of these factors into consideration, there are many
ways you may wish to display your appointment information.
To address these issues, GbSchedule.NET implements Viewmodes. A Viewmode setting
is a defined way to view information. For example, the mot common is dates on top
and time on the left. This is a traditional appointment book. However this is really
only the information that a patient needs to know. Internally, you may need to know
to what room is a patient assigned. You may need to categorize appointments.
Another big issue in many appointment applications is assigning people (providers)
to appointments.
With a properly setup schedule, all of these displays may be seen on the schedule
simply by changing the Viewmode property. For instance, you may view all appointments
by date and time. You can display a colored bar next to the appointments to view
their categorization. Each morning, you need to print out a customized schedule
for each provider in your office with just his/her list of appointments. Each day
you can print out a master schedule that shows appointments by date, time, and room.
Each with its own category (or provider) colored bar. The different modes considerably
extend the benefits of the schedule.
DayTop/TimeLeft
This viewmode display appointments with dates on top and time on the left. You can
also see other information like category and provider information as colored bar
in the appointment's left margin if desired.
You can also show a few days and stretch the date columns to fit the available area
y using the ColumnHeader property AutoFit. This gives the impression of a Week view
if you use 7 days.
DayRoomTop/TimeLeft
This viewmode display appointments with dates and rooms on the top axis and time
on the left. The rooms are repeated for each date. This gives a view of the appointments
in rooms on dates at a particular time.
ProviderTop/TimeLeft
RoomTop/TimeLeft
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