Calendar and Recurring Appointments w/ Multiple Attendees

corradomatt

I am working on a scheduling application that will allow for recurring appointments and multiple StaffMember attendees.

I started with the CRM sample application and I am customizing it from there. Most everything is working as expected except for one problem...

Whenever I create a recurring appointment on the calendar and assign an employee to the appointment, the future recurring events no longer reference that employee BO. This prevents me from changing the future events date and time if necessary and doesn't allow for any editing of future events.

Everytime I attempt to edit the calendar event to add a Employee BO I get this error message -> "java.lang.ClassCastException"

I need the calendar to allow me to change individual events in a recurring cycle to allow for different dates and times of individual events as well as different staff assigned to individual events.

I would also like the ability to change an entire string of recurring events for future events "moving forward" and not effect the prior events (if possible - I am thinking I will need a workaround for this)

I would also like to be able to drag events from a calendar view and have the events automatically separate themselves from recurring events and become one time events.

I'm setup with Virtual Recurrences.

I'm not sure where to even start looking for the answer to the main question and that is how to get rid of the "java.lang.ClassCastException" error message and get the calendar to work well with recurring events.

I know something is off with my app...

aware_support

Please send your BSV with the description of steps required to reproduce the ClassCastException problem to support@awareim.com

corradomatt

No problem. Thanks guys!

aware_support

This should be fixed in version 5.1a

corradomatt

Thanks for the fix Support. I installed the latest version of awareim earlier this evening and did some testing and everything seems to be working well. I will continue testing tomorrow.

One thing I did notice is that when viewing a calendar in the "scheduler" view with multiple staffers listed in rows; I can't drag and drop a calendar event from one staff member to another.

Is this a bug or is it designed that way? I think I like this feature but I still haven't made up my mind. If I wanted to add this ability to the scheduler, is it something that I could program into the system within AwareIM or would I need to adjust the settings in the javascript?

aware_support

You should be able to. If not, it could be a bug

corradomatt

There seem to be a few bugs with the schedule functionality. I am testing everything on the application I am building which uses the CRM application as a starting point. For the appointment BO I have altered the following:

1. Added recurring appointment option (dynamic and not instances)
1. Allowed multiple StaffMembers to attend each appointment

Here are some things I'm noticing so far....

1. I have attempted to create an appointment from the home screen of the CRM application and then view that appointment on the "Team Tasks" tab which shows the scheduler. I have altered the display options of this scheduler to show "1 day", "1 week" and "6 weeks". The appointments that were created from the calendar box on the home tab appear under "1 week" and "6 weeks" but not under the "1 day" option. Looks like a bug.
1. Whenever I attempt to move an appointment by drag-and-drop from 1 staffmember to another on the "Team Tasks" tab it won't let me. This is true whether the appointment has 1 or multiple staffmembers assigned.
2. On the positive side - when an appointment has multiple staff members and I drag-and-drop the appointment on staffmember #1's row in the scheduler it works as expected and moves the time for the other staff member's appointment as well. Same is true for changing the length of the appointment time.

corradomatt

UPDATE

So since performing an AwareIM update the scheduler has been showing appointments fine under the "1 day" option. I'll continue monitoring this to be sure.

Drag-and-drop functionality seems to have stopped for some reason and I can't figure out why. I have it checked to allow drag and drop in the Scheduler Query object but the system will now not allow me to drag and drop any appointment objects. I can't drag-and-drop the appointment time, duration or from one staff member to another under any of the views (day week or 6 weeks). This means that what I said under point 3 from above no longer applies for me and my BS.

I really hope that much of this can be fixed or ironed out soon. I would like to purchase AwareIm and finish my application but I really need some sophisticated scheduling functionality that works every time. The whole basis for my app is to get us away from using Google Calendar for scheduling.

aware_support

We are not aware of any bugs that would stop drag and drop from working - please double check your app. If you are sure there is a bug, send your BSV with the description how to reproduce the problem to support@awareim.com