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Timeline View
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The Timeline view provides an infinite scrolling view of the
events in the database, and allows you to examine and edit individual
events or resources by double-clicking on them. This screenshot
shows the main frame of the application (with a testing database
loaded), the pastel-coloured area is the Timeline view.
Notes:
- Events are colour-coded according to the colours you
associate with particular users
- You define the Resource and Event names in your own
database, the testing database uses un-imaginative names because they
are easy to generate
- Split event bars indicate a conflict
- The status bar displays summary information about the event
under the cursor
- Your preferences determine whether to display
event-description and user-name text on the event bars
Actions Available in this View:
- define new events (ctrl-drag in an empty space, the
resources in the rectangle will be booked for the time defined by the
rectangle)
- edit existing events (double-click)
- move events to different rooms/resources (drag)
- move events through time (drag)
- clone events through time (ctrl-drag an event)
- zoom in (z), zoom out (Z), zoom
- scroll backward/forward in time (scrollbar at bottom
of window, clicks to either side of bar move a page at a time, small
arrows move a minimal time increment (based on current zoom) and
dragging uses a non-linear scrolling ratio to allow for moving weeks or
months at a time)
- view today (Timeline | Today), view current two days
(Timeline|2 Day), view this week (Timeline|Week)
Actions Available in the Main Frame (not related to Timeline):
- compact database (Tools | Compact Database) this operation
eliminates the undo history from the database, which dramatically
reduces the size of the file on disk (often shrinking to less than 20
percent of the original size, depending on the amount of database
activity since the last compaction)
- scripting shell (Tools | Scripting Shell) provides access
to a Python 2.2 programming shell which has access to the objects
within the application (including all of your events, resources and
users)
- launch user/resource/preference management windows (Tools |
User Management, Tools | Resource Management, Edit | Preferences)
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Event Objects
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The Event object is the primary focus of the
application. Each event represents a user's booking of some
number of resources for a discreet time interval (that is, there is no
concept of a repeating event in the application at the moment).
The Event class, like most objects in Conflict Solver, provides an
editing window in which you can modify the properties of a particular
Event. You will normally both create and edit new events in the
Event property editing window.
 
Notes:
- Although the start and end times of the event are stored
internally as a single "date" object, each one uses two separate
controls for editing the values
- Modifying duration alters the stop-time, not the start time
of an event
- Times are always display in 24hr (also known as military)
format
- Available resources in the Used Resources property editor
are marked with green icons, unavailable/conflicted resources use red
icons
- You can "promote" property-editing windows such as shown to
be free-floating by clicking on the arrow on the left side of their
title bar. This allows you to compare values among multiple
events.
Actions Available in this View:
- change Event resources (click on list of Used Resources to
get property editing window (second capture above))
- assign Event to another user
- set Event-change notification flag (this flag is reset to
false when the event changes, allowing you to track whether or not the
user has been notified of changes to their events)
- modify general properties of Event (name, notes)
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