Control found in a window, page or report

• on a daily, weekly or montly basis,
• on 6 months or on 1 year.

Remark: Scheduler control fields are also available in Planning reports.. For more details on how schedulers work in reports, see Scheduler report.

1. On the "Creation" tab, in the "Graphic controls" group, expand "Time" and select "Scheduler".
2. Click where the control will be created in the window or page.
3. The Scheduler control creation wizard starts. Answer the questions and validate.
4. The control appears in the editor.

The control options (window editor and page editor)

• With buttons to change the time range Dequeue: This option displays buttons so that the user can dequeue the different periods of the schedule. These buttons are displayed at the top left of schedule.
  
• Display: By default, display is by month, with displacement and duration granularity of one day.. When clicking the display options, a window is opened, allowing you to define the different display options:
  
  It is possible to define the following elements:
  • Total schedule range: day, week (5 or 7 days), according to the number of appointments, according to the number of days, 6 months, one year.
  • Granularity of appointments: Corresponds the display precision of schedule. Appointments can start on a multiple of XX minutes, hours, ... and have a duration multiple of XX minutes, hours, etc.. The arrow button is used to enter preset values. The lock is used to link (or not) the values.
  • Range viewed: The range viewed is calculated from the control size in the editor. By entering the range to view, you get the minimum dimension of the element according to the selected unit.
  • When validating this window, the selected characteristics are summarized in the control description window.
• Resource display mode: By default, resources are displayed online.
  They can also be displayed by columns.
• Time display: Allows you to define:
  • the format of the date displayed for the "day" columns (or rows) of the scheduler.
  • whether the time must be displayed or not in the control.
  • the format of the time displayed for the "day" columns (or rows) of scheduler.
  • whether the week number must be displayed or not, as well as its format. In the format, the '%1' string corresponds to the week number. Example format: "Sem. %1".
• Time range: Allows you to define:
  • Visible time range Time range to be displayed in the.
  • the working time range: Time range for which an appointment can be defined.
  To define specific time slots, use SchedulerWorkingHour and SchedulerWorkingHourResource.
• Appointment: Allows you to specify appointment characteristics:
  • Overlapping: Managing overlapping appointments. The appointments can be displayed side by side or slightly shifted.
  • Continuous display if several days: Displays a multi-day appointment as a single appointment. If this option is unchecked, the appointments on several days will correspond to as many appointments as the number of days.
• Other parameters:
  • Allow time range selection: Allows the user to select a period with the mouse.
  • Allow direct input of an appointment: Allows the user to directly add an appointment.
    To do so, click the Scheduler control to create the appointment and enter its caption via the keyboard.
    
  • Display and allow the appointments for the entire day: Indicates that an appointment can correspond to an entire day.. In this case, a specific area is displayed in the Scheduler control. This area is used to enter the daily appointments.
    You can specify the height of the area.
    Examples:
    • if the schedule is displayed with the resources in rows:
      • In WINDEV:
        
    • if the schedule is displayed with the resources in columns:
      • In WINDEV:
        

• Change duration. You can allow or prevent users from changing the duration of appointments.
• Move. You can allow or prevent users from moving appointments.
• Allow users to change resources. If this option is checked, users will be able to move appointments and associate them with different resources.
• Allow users to overlap elements. If this option is checked, when moving appointments, the user will be able to make them overlap. In this case, the options defined for overlapping appointments (offset or side by side) will be taken into account.

• if the resources are displayed by rows:
  • Minimum height of a resource.
  • Width of the resource header.
• if the resources are displayed by columns:
  • Minimum width of the resource.
  • Height of the break (for changing day)

Modes for filling a Scheduler control

A Scheduler control can be filled:

• through programming, via the different associated events and WLanguage functions.
• via data binding.
• via data binding (to a variable).