Multiple Resources and TimeLine Grouping

[Dave]

I am trying to create a scheduler page that in TimeLineView will list the Resources Vertically and the Hours of the Day across the top to determine availablity for meetings.  I can get this to work until I try to implement multiple resources per appointment.  When I do that only the first resource shows the appointment that has multiple resources.  I would like each resource to display the same appointment in the time line view. 

Here are my table definitions:
Appointments

• AppointmentId(Key)
• Subject
• StartDateTime
• EndDateTime
• RecurrenceRule
• RecurrenceParentId

AppointmentContacts

•  AppointmentId(Key)
• ContactId(Key)

Contacts

• ContactId(Key)
• ContactName

Here is the scheduler definition

    <telerik:RadScheduler ID="dataScheduler" CustomAttributeNames="Description" OnAppointmentCreated="Scheduler_AppointmentCreated"
        DataSourceID="AppointmentsDataSource" runat="server" DataKeyField="AppointmentId"
        DataSubjectField="Subject" DataStartField="StartDateTime" DataEndField="EndDateTime"
        DataRecurrenceField="RecurrenceRule" DataRecurrenceParentKeyField="RecurrenceParentId"
        OnAppointmentDataBound="dataScheduler_AppointmentDataBound" OnAppointmentDelete="dataScheduler_AppointmentDelete"
        OnAppointmentInsert="dataScheduler_AppointmentInsert" OnAppointmentUpdate="dataScheduler_AppointmentUpdate"
        OnDataBinding="dataScheduler_DataBinding" OnDataBound="dataScheduler_DataBound"
        OnRecurrenceExceptionCreated="dataScheduler_RecurrenceExceptionCreated" StartEditingInAdvancedForm="true">
        <ResourceTypes>
            <telerik:ResourceType KeyField="AppointmentId" Name="ContactId" TextField="ContactId"
                ForeignKeyField="AppointmentId" DataSourceID="AppointmentContactsDataSource"
                AllowMultipleValues="true" />
        </ResourceTypes>
        <TimelineView UserSelectable="true" GroupBy="ContactId" GroupingDirection="Vertical"
            NumberOfSlots="5" />
    </telerik:RadScheduler>

[Peter]

Hello Dave,

This is unusual. I modified the Database Scheduler Provider trying to replicate the problem you reported but to no avail. Here is what I tested:

<telerik:RadScheduler runat="server" ID="RadScheduler1" SelectedView="TimelineView"
            Width="750px"  TimeZoneOffset="00:00:00"
            SelectedDate="2007-08-02" DayStartTime="08:00:00" DayEndTime="18:00:00"
            ProviderName="ReadOnlySchedulerData" ReadOnly="false" RowHeight="50px"
            OnAppointmentCreated="RadScheduler1_AppointmentCreated">
            <AppointmentTemplate>
                <asp:Label runat="server" ID="RecurrenceIcon" />
                <%# Eval("Subject") %>
                <br />
                <asp:Label runat="server" ID="Teacher" />
                <br />
                <asp:Label runat="server" ID="Students" />
            </AppointmentTemplate>
            <TimelineView GroupBy="Student" GroupingDirection="vertical" />
        </telerik:RadScheduler>

And the result is as in the attached screenshot.

Probably you are aware of this, but I just want to rule it out as a possible cause of the problem: Only custom providers can provide the support to allow multi-valued resources (resources that can have multiple values assigned to a single appointment). Are you using a custom provider? Here is the help topic for reference:Implementing A Provider That Supports Multi-valued Resources


Regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

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