Move / Swap Public Talk Assignment

[ajtruckle]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. In Public Talks it has a wizard to let you rearrange a public talk assignment (albeit a local / away talk).

Describe the solution you'd like At the moment it is not possible to swap (or move) a public talk assignment in Meeting Schedule Assistant. And I think it would be a useful feature. But, we don't need the complexity of a wizard.

The Meeting Editor already has the ability to swap some assignments for both meetings:

• https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/help-msa/mwb-editor-swapassign-references.html
• https://www.publictalksoftware.co.uk/help-msa/mwb-editor-weekend-meeting-swap.html

And, the above includes swapping between schedules by referencing them.

I think we should introduce a similar feature to swap the local (or away) speaker. You would use CTRL + Left mouse button to invoke a similar context menu.

The Local talk menu would offer:

Swap
    Date Speaker (Talk#), Congregation
    Date Speaker (Talk#), Congregation
    Date Speaker (Talk#), Congregation
    Date Speaker (Talk#), Congregation

The Away talk menu would offer:

Move
    Date
    Date
    Date
    Date
    Date
Swap
    Date Speaker (Talk#), Congregation
    Date Speaker (Talk#), Congregation
    Date Speaker (Talk#), Congregation
    Date Speaker (Talk#), Congregation

I don't think the local talk needs to support move.

[cengizu]

@ajtruckle Good idea. Need to see it in action though😉

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu Yes, I think it would be useful for the talk coordinators. But I would like us to agree on the wording for the context menu items. Eg:

Date Speaker (Talk#), Congregation 10/03/2024 Happy Brother (n.1) Arrakis

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu I made a start on the display of the context menu. I decided to omit the current meeting from the menu. Made no sense to include it. But their are a couple of issues to address / consider.

• Special Events: Some weeks there is no weekend meeting due to a special event. These weeks should not display on the menu.
• Away Talks: Technically, an away talk assignment might need to be moved to a different day on the selected weekend. The Move sub-menu only includes the local congregation meeting dates.
  • So you can move an away talk from one Sunday to another Sunday (or swap).
  • But you can't move an away talk from was Sunday to a Saturday (or vice versa). Unless that date is already in the menu (and thus a swap).

Make sense?

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu Please give some thought to the way the GUI should look when we are asking the user to confirm a swap between two talk assignments. This will either be:

• A standard message box
• A task dialog

The existing swap feature uses a simple message box:

But, in this context we will have more information for (source / target):

• Date
• Name
• Congregation
• Talk number

We'll also have to cater for moving assignments. But I am concentrating on swapping at the moment.

[cengizu]

@ajtruckle

A task dialog might be better than a simple message box due to complex details this window will display. If the user is well informed, they will adopt such features more quickly and use them more.

[cengizu]

@ajtruckle

An example:

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu Thanks for the proposal. This will require a custom dialog. I'll look at in in due course. Please provide the BMP for the arrow symbol.

I think I will use the following wording:

Please confirm that you would like to swap the following home talk assignments: Please confirm that you would like to swap the following away talk assignments: Buttons: Yes and No.

My original concern still stands for moving a talk assignment, since the target day might not be the normal meeting day, and that date might not be in the menu. So I think moving needs to be give some thought to come up with a simple solution.

[ajtruckle]

Linked Q & A:

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[ajtruckle]

@cengizu This is based on your suggestion:

The edit controls are read-only so the user can't change the text. And I can set the image background as transparent. I just wanted to put something together for you to see.

But, I am wondering if we should have consistency between the icon used on this window and the smaller icon used on the context menu? I admit that I like the brighter colour on the swap menu, but for this window it is logical that the arrows are left / right.

See what you think. 🤔

Away Talks

I have decided that you need to select the away talk you want to swap (so that it is highlighted) before pressing the hotkey:

Otherwise, the logic fails because the grid has no focus row for us to extract the talk information from.

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu

• Context menu has a new icon:

• Swap window now has a larger icon (complementing the small menu one). And, some of the text has been revised:

Some other minor improvements have been made to the feature. I'll send a beta in due course.

[cengizu]

@ajtruckle

Works nicely 👍

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu Thanks for doing the beta testing for Home Talks. I look forward to your feedback for swapping Away Talks when you have time.

I am sending beta 8 to you via Google Drive. It has been updated so that the Cancel button turns into a Close button whenever any swapping of assignments has occurred .

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu Morning! I have now completed implementation for both Move and Swap and the beta is ready for testing.

• The context menu has a new icon for Move Assignment:

• The dates listed for Move Assignment sub-menu will either be:

  • Home Talk: Local Congregation meeting day.
  • Away Talk: Away Congregation meeting day.

• This is the new Move Assignment window:

• It is possible to override the time for the moved talk assignment.

• The Swap Assignments window has been updated:

• The Cancel button will change to a Close button whenever you perform a move or swap for any assignment on the Weekend Meeting window. This is because the operation is modifying two different weeks in the meeting editor.

• Fixed an issue with deleting an away talk. The row was staying visible in the away talks list.

Beta 9 is on its way to you! 😊

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu I have made some minor changes to the help topic. And added Help buttons to the new windows.

Moving and Swapping Assignments.pdf

[cengizu]

@ajtruckle

All looks good to me. it works. Great job!

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu I am sending you beta 11 which has some other refinements to the GUI. Both the Meeting Editor and Weekend Meeting Editor now use a hamburger icon in several locations. Example:

This makes it clearer to the user that they have the facility to move (or swap) assignments. Just click the hamburger icon to display the context menu. Using CTRL + Left-click is now obsolete.