ludwa6
commented
3 years ago Right on, @jgaehring ! Had not seen this issue before i posted this one, but i describe a couple of UseCases there, what are most important to me now (and more, when those are solved).
As to implementation: the Audacity model is interesting, but for one that is both simpler AND more relevant to Crop Planning use cases, how about this "Open Source Javascript Gantt" library? That links to a live demo page, where you can play w/ the few simple/ powerful interactions it enables -just what my users have been begging for!
NB: Farming events are often triggered not only by the date/time that was planned, but just as often by another dependency -e.g. the start or finish date of another crop. That visualisation libe also supports such dependent triggers, b/t/w.
jgaehring
mstenta
We discussed the idea today of including a map above (or next to) the timeline, with a slider that draws a vertical line through the timeline to indicate what point in time the map is displaying. This way the user could control exactly what stage of their crop plan they were viewing, and which plantings and logs align with that timing.
In my mind it would look sort of how the slider works in Audacity; note the red line to the far right with an inverted triangle along the top:
They also enable time ranges to be selected and dragged, like this:
In addition to updating the map, we could also have snapshot info of the farm at that point in time, such as how many acres are currently planted, how many total plantings you have, maybe even how many trays you have planted at that point (helpful for keeping greenhouse inventory).