Schedule Across Multiple Days

[.NET Coder]

Hello,

Is it possible to schedule entries over multiple days? For example, I have a piece of equipment that will be unavailable from 9/24/07 through 9/28/07.   I set my start date as 9/24 and end date as 9/28.  The scheduler is only showing this item on the 9/24 day.

Thanks,
Wayne

[T. Tsonev]

Hi Wayne,

This is a bug that concerns only the month view. It has been fixed already and the fix will be included in the next Service Pack.

Greetings,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
the Telerik team

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[don]

Wayne and Tsvetomir,

Thanks for addressing this issue. We just installed the trial and are excited about using it, but the multi-day spanning on the month view is critical for us. So, I have two questions:

1. When will the next service pack be available, so this bug will be fixed?

2. On the month view, when a task spans multiple days, is it possible to have a continuous box, across which the task name can also span? If I remember correctly from earlier demos on your site, if a task spanned 4 days, it would look like 4 separate tasks on 4 days in a row. While this is so-so, it is clearer to have a continuous box, which also prevents the task name from being truncated.

#1 is really important, but #2 would be very nice to have.

Thanks,
Don

[Dave Whiting]

I too would love to see this fix and also the ability to span all day task descriptions across the days (#2 in Don's post).

I intend to use All Day only schedulling for one of my apps and this would be a real plus point.

Thanks
Mark

[.NET Coder]

Can you tell me when this service pack will be released?

[T. Tsonev]

Hi Wayne,

The Service Pack is planned for mid-October. I am attaching a trial hotfix here, so you can continue your evaluation without this bug in your way. If anyone needs a dev version, please feel free to open a ticket and we will send it to you.

We will also try to implement multi-day spanning in month view, as it is implemented in the week view in time for the SP.

Regards,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
the Telerik team

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[Dave Whiting]

Thanks Wayne,

My main requirement would be to have multi-day spanning in Month View which is a shame but I'll wait for the next release.

Many Thanks
Mark

[.NET Coder]

Yes, the multi-day spanning in the month view is exactly what I need too.

I came across another issue.  The week view appears to be "short" by one day.  For example, a schedule of 9/17 - 9/21 is showing an end day of 9/20.  Is that being addressed in the next fix?

Thanks for the support.

[T. Tsonev]

Hi Wayne,

We will try to implement spanning in month view for the service pack, but we might not be ready on time for it.

This behavior of the all-day appointments is by design. In your example the appointment is interpreted as
starting at 9/17 00:00 and ending at 9/21 00:00. The inclusive range is 9/17, 9/18, 9/19 and 9/20.

The advanced form has some logic to compensate for the discrepancy in the range. When creating an all-day appointment it adds one day to it. It does not do that when editing an all-day appointment, as it will creep by one day on each update.

Best wishes,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
the Telerik team

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[don]

Dear Tsvetomir,

I wanted to see if you could tell us the status of being able to do the multi-day spanning on the month view in RadScheduler. It remains an important feature request for us.

Thanks!

Don

[Peter]

Hi Don,

Unfortunately, we won't be able to implement multi-day spanning in month view for the upcoming release. Most likely, we will do it for Q1 2008.


Kind regards,
Peter
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[don]

Peter,

Thanks for the update. I'm sorry it won't be out sooner, but I hope you do decide to do it for Q1 2008. Thanks again...

Don

[Michael]

Has anybody created a workaround for this? (re: Rad Scheduler one Day short).  I create an event from 7/14 to 7/18 and only 7/14 thru 7/17 is populated.  Thanks in advance.

[Yana]

Hello Michael,

This is the expected behavior of the all-day appointments. In your example the appointment is interpreted as starting at 7/14 00:00 and ending at 7/18 00:00, so 7/18 is not included in the range.

All the best,
Yana
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[Michael]

Thank you for your reply.  I know this is how it comes out of the box.  I am wondering if anybody has a work around.  Thanks in advance.

[don]

Michael,

We address it by doing this:

protected void RadScheduler1_AppointmentDataBound(object sender, Telerik.Web.UI.SchedulerEventArgs e)

{

e.Appointment.End = e.Appointment.End.AddDays(1);

}

That way we don't have to change our underlying data and the issue is "corrected" during binding. I hope that helps.

Thanks,

Donny

[Michael]

Donny,

Thanks for the reply - I will implement it tonight.  Do you know, when editing an all-day appointment, will the date creep by one day on each update?

Again, thanks!

Michael

[don]

Michael,

That's a good question. We don't run into that scenario in our app, so I can't offer any guidance there.

Good luck,

Donny

[T. Tsonev]

Hi Michael,

You can handle the AppointmentUpdate event to adjust the time of the appointment right before it is sent to the database.

Regards,
Tsvetomir Tsonev
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[.NET Coder]

Thanks.