Calendar (Needs Management)

[road2nowhere]

Hi @metakermit and @klappradla this is a quick sketch of how we could improve calendar usability without any pop-ups. Basically with the right Wording (working on it, haha) and some extra lines of text (which might be hidden again). Just to show you the idea.

[klappradla]

What should Agenda stand for?

Plus: why should we integrate the additional + Neues Gesuch erstellen button? For user's who don't want to go with the drag-drop interface? I could actually see potential for this, the iCal has it too for instance.

[road2nowhere]

Regarding AGENDA: It's the same as in Google Calendar (screenshot below): Puts everything in a list which is quiet a convenient view if you have a busy day. I consider it a NICE TO HAVE though, doesn't need to be in the MVP if too much effort.

Regarding the NEUES-GESUCH button, I'd really recommend to have it for 2 reasons:

1. It actually helps to communicate what you can do on this page
2. It makes data entry much easier if you have several overlapping events in a day.

Regarding DETAIL VIEW: You mentioned that you are working on the detail view for multiple categories. Could you maybe post a screenshot of the work in progress? Looking at the current detail view, I suggest to separate the date entry from the time entry, because it's not so easy to understand how you can edit the time. (I think it's a bit uncommon that you also have an editable field inside a drop down). I'd suggest to keep it safe and use 2 separate fields for date and time. Maybe you changed that already in the new version?

[road2nowhere]

Here are the updated screens.

Calendar view

• general layout as is
• reordering of information in the entry fields
• progress indicator to give at first glance an idea of how many people are still needed (nice to have)

Agenda/List view

• Alternative view of calendar for better readability and tracking of needs (how many people have signed up)

Calendar entry detail

• separate fields for specifying a time
• Current request status tracking (nice to have)
• Preview function (nice to have)
• Copy function (nice to have)

[metakermit]

Looks good and I agree. With the help tooltips, I didn't necessarily mean they have to be hovering - they could be written as a text paragraph like you put it. I'd just enable removing them, so that it doesn't take up screen reel estate every time a user opens this page (cause you generally only need to figure out how to use it once).

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM loncie notifications@github.com wrote:

Here are the updated screens.

Calendar view

• general layout as is
• reordering of information in the entry fields
• progress indicator to give at first glance an idea of how many people are still needed (nice to have)

[image: w2h_calendar_week_101115] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/15609804/11057702/8a6b33b2-878d-11e5-8ec8-cf7c851fda9d.png

Agenda/List view

• Alternative view of calendar for better readability and tracking of needs (how many people have signed up)

[image: w2h_calendar_list_101115] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/15609804/11057705/9179e3c4-878d-11e5-9065-a725e461b00c.png

Calendar entry detail

• separate fields for specifying a time
• Current request status tracking (nice to have)
• Preview function (nice to have)
• Copy function (nice to have)

[image: w2h_calendar_detail_101115] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/15609804/11057714/a1c39dc4-878d-11e5-9291-0dcbcab6a01f.png

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[metakermit]

Added something that I found resembles the Agenda view the most from the available fullcalendar views.

[metakermit]

Fixed header to look more or less how you described it, @loncie. We added a link to manually create a need without using the drag & drop functionality. I didn't put the arrows on either sides of the date, because the date text varies which makes the buttons jump around (I followed the way they are placed in OS X calendar).