www2012/W4H — Issue #1: Concept of permanent task for a specific context
Author: amille
Created: 2012-02-28 08:44:29+00:00
State: open

The question is the following:

How to manage "tasks" corresponding to activities as Coffee Break, Lunch, Registration... and so on which have to be planned every day (on the same time slots?, in the same location?) and during all the duration of the event of which it is the context.

Proposal : creating the concept of "Permanent task" in the context of an event. The event has a starting date-hour and a ending date-hour.

A permanent task depending of a specific context inherit constraints on the starting and ending dates.

A permanent task of a specific activity B is (by default) planned every day of the context, during the same time slots, and in the same location, with the same people, and so on. By defining one permanent activity, this activity is spread up on the duration of its context.

Example : we define Task "Morning Coffee Break" of activity type "Coffee Break" as a permanent task from 10:00 am to 10:30 am for Event A, with Me Starbuck as responsible, in the Hall 3, with the descfiption text T.
Event A starts on Monday 16th of April 7:00 to Wednesday.
The created Permanent Task is created in the same slots of all days ot its context, i.e. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
It is possible to change the properties of a permanent task for all its instances or for one particular instance.