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Yearly or Quarterly View in SWA

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:25 pm
by drake2
I am not sure there is enough screen space to do this properly, but is it possible to get some sort of quarterly and yearly overview in SWA of both personal and shared calendars. For example, 3 month display scrollable across the 4 quarters. This feature would be most useful for finance or accounting users.

I gather upcoming appointments could be set to 90 days, but it does not seem you can get upcoming appointments for a public calendar only.

Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:03 pm
by florian
it's only software - right? so everything is possible. :-)

While we're not planning to do anything in the space of calendar views, if you have a useful proposal, we might be able to look at it at some point. Why don't you make a proposal? Create a mockup of something that would be useful for you and we can discuss here. You can also open this up as an enhancement against SWA in Bugzilla, so we can properly track it.

Florian.

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:09 am
by drake2
Looking for something similar to what is discussed for one of the mozilla sunbird issues at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157270 .

Timeline with three or twelve months down the left side, which day of the week (ssmtwtf) across the top, and the day of the month (1-31) in a row with the month name and the events using colored bars (all day) or lines (appointment).

Instead of forcing to quarter (1,2,3,4) or year (Jan-Dec) allow a 3 month window that can be scrolled across the years, so you could look at something like Feb, Mar, April.

Also, if you hover over or click on a day, give a text list of events that span that day.

Finally, allow printing of the yearly or quarterly overview.

The actual layout implementation, how it fits on screen, and how events and labels are handled does not matter much as long as it is useful. The biggest obstacles would seem to be how to fit it in available screen space and how to maintain reasonable performance.