Cater for more than 2 away talks

[fstouma]

At the moment Meeting Schedule Assistant can only cater for a maximum of 2 away talks on the Weekend Meeting Editor window:

In the Public Talks application is does not have this limitation:

It would be great if Meeting Schedule Assistant could do the same.

[ajtruckle]

@fstouma Let me think about the best way to address this feature request. 🤔 I'll update you in due course.

[ajtruckle]

@fstouma The good news is that the structure of XML data used by the Meeting Editor can already cope with any number of away talks. 😊

XML

<AwayTalk>
    <Speaker>Name</Speaker>
    <Congregation>Congregation</Congregation>
    <ThemeNumber>158</ThemeNumber>
    <MeetingDate Day="12" DayShort="Sun" DayFull="Sunday" Month="11" MonthShort="Nov" MonthFull="November" Year="2023">12/11/2023</MeetingDate>
    <MeetingTime Time12="10:00" Time24="10:00"/>
</AwayTalk>

XSL

<xsl:apply-templates select="AwayTalk"/>

So the schedule would still display all away talks by design without needing any changes to the XML data or XSL templates.

Required Changes

Several areas need to be changed though:

• Assignment History Database
• User Interface (Weekend Meeting Editor)
• User Interface (Weekend Meeting Editor - Import from Public Talks)
• Calendar Synchronization

[ajtruckle]

@fstouma Part of the problem is the design of the GUI. In Public Talks it is designed like this:

But, in Meeting Schedule Assistant we have less real-estate (it is not as wide:

I am open to suggestions💡from yourself or anyone else about changing the GUI to make this work.

[fstouma]

Just wondering, can it be a form that enables the user to add one talk at a time and you can view them by a report?

[ajtruckle]

@fstouma @mardodan

This is my proposal:

We move the Video Operator control over to the right to give us more real-estate. Now we have more room for the new controls. They are similar to the Public Talks GUI (without the Tentative column). This would work.

[ajtruckle]

@fstouma @mardodan

Like this:

Work in progress!

[ajtruckle]

@fstouma @mardodan

I have made some progress:

But there is quite a bit of work to do before I can issue a beta.

[ajtruckle]

@fstouma @MardoDan

I didn't really how much that this change to the Away Talks feature would impact the application. I am now knee deep in implementation! But there are some other areas that I still need to revise for this to work properly.

[ajtruckle]

https://stackoverflow.com/q/77242954/2287576

[ajtruckle]

@MardoDan @stecchio66

The Import (from Public Talks) window has been updated to support more than two away talks:

[MardoDan]

Excelente Trabajo!!!

[ajtruckle]

@MardoDan Thank you! 😊

I have now completed all required changes to the software for this feature request.

Note I still need to revise 👀 all the help documentation. But I would like beta feedback 💬 in the first instance. I sent you a download link (privately) to beta number 5 earlier today.

[MardoDan]

Excelente trabajo, hasta ahora no le encontré errores. Se pueden agregar mas de dos salidas de discursantes

[ajtruckle]

Documentation has now been updated and version 24.1.1 will be released shortly.

[ajtruckle]

[!NOTE]
The online newsletter for version 24.1.1 is now available.