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Hello Telerik,
I have to implement an application which basically works in the same way of your ScheduleView demo called "ScheduleView and TimeBar" (TimeBar minimap for ScheduleView). So: I want a grouped timeline view with appointments, a larger range of this data previewed in the TimeBar above, and I also need the ability to add, edit, delete and drag-and-drop appointments as well.
The only thing is that I want my timeview to work scaled to seconds. This means I need to be able to create and manage appointments with a duration of some second (e.g. 5 or 10 seconds) and to keep the view "zoomed" to see these small details (e.g. I must be able to have the view set to see 1 minute in the planner, split into 60 seconds). Unfortunately I am not succeeding in this because I'm experiencing some difficulty working with TimelineViewDefinition's VisibleDays, MinTimeRulerExtent, MinorTickLength and MajorTickLength.
Can you please suggest a valid approach to achieve my implementation? And if ScheduleView is not the best option, can you suggest me a valid one (I tried RadTimeline and it seems effective, but there are no add, edit, delete and drag-and-drop behaviors at all)?
Thank you
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The RadScheduleView control was designed to extend the functionality provided by Microsoft Outlook and provide scheduling of appointments which normally have a longer duration. With this said, it cannot work with such small intervals of time such as few seconds.
If you could specify your exact requirements, I may be able to suggest another control which could work for your specific scenario. Please suggest what type of data you will work with as well as the problem the control should solve.
I'm looking forward to your reply.
Regards,
Dilyan Traykov
Telerik by Progress
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Dilyan,
Thanks for your answer.
My requirement is to implement a "timeline" scheduler, oriented horizontally, detailed to seconds. I need this because I must work with simple time frames (called "slots") whose duration will vary from some seconds (e.g. 5 secs) to several hours (e.g. 10 hours).
The user must be able to create these "slots", move them back and forward, delete them and perform some custom external action (by means of a context menu that shall appear when a slot is right-clicked).
I also need to have multiple lines (called "groups"), because the user shall be able to define new groups and, for each one of them, define a related "slots" planning.
Finally this timeline shall allow to be zoomed and also to be binded into a RadTimebar to have a global view of the "slots" planning.
Please, find attached a screenshot of a simplified version of the scheduler I need to implement (the values in the ruler refer to minute 8:00, 8:10, 8:20 and so on).
Thank you
The RadScheduleView control is designed to work with the DateTimeInterval struct which only allows using minutes, hours, days, months, and weeks.
Hence, I am afraid there's no combination of controls I can offer you that will suit your requirements.
If I can be of any further assistance, however, please let me know.
Regards,
Dilyan Traykov
Telerik by Progress
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Hello Dilyan,
I finally found a solution, so I'd like to share it with the community (it's not so clean, indeed, but it seems it's working!). To achieve my target, I kept using RadScheduleView and I configured it in order to work considering days as they were seconds.
Hence I've set:
- "01/01/0001" as start period. My need is to have a 1 week timeline, which means DateTime.MinValue.AddDays(60*60*24*7) as max end date.
- "needed minutes * 60" as VisibleDays. My need is to show max 30 minutes at once, so a total of 1.800 visible days.
- and I edited the template in order to display, by means of appropriate converters, the timeline ruler and tooltip values as time values (e.g. 00:08:00, 00:08:10...) instead of typical calendar dates.
Have a nice day!
I'm glad to hear that you found a solution that suits your needs. Thank you for sharing it with the community.
Regards,
Dilyan Traykov
Progress Telerik