Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Utility Reservation System

Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Utility Reservation System - Appointments too?

4: Re: Utility Reservation System - Appointments too? (response to 1)

Posted by Caroline Meeks on 09/21/03 12:13 AM

Should this package support this use case?

A professor has office hours from 3 to 5 pm on MWF. Students in his classes can use dotLRN to reserve 30 minute slots during his designated office hours.

Appointments made on-line appear on both the professors and the student's calendars.

5: Re: Utility Reservation System - Appointments too? (response to 4)

Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 09/21/03 12:51 AM

Well, I certainly didn't see the professor as a utility, but yes, with regards to the package it does not make any difference. Just wonder what kind of properties we'd assign to him ;). Which brings in a different thing for the package: Linking of existing objects to utilities.

Wasn't there talk about a general scheduling package for Objects? If this is the case, we could split the reservations from the utilities and have a utilities package, that keeps track of the utilities and their properties, and a scheduling package, that allows reservations for any object within OpenACS.