The user interactions in Resource view are limited only to moving, resizing and deleting of existing items. We are planning on adding the ability to select and create new items interactively in one of our future releases.

Meppy

We are now preparing the new version 4.1 and we expect it to be ready until the end of August. As of yet, this feature is not planned to be included in version 4.1. We are releasing a new version every 2 months, thus the next version is likely to be out in October.

Meppy.

P.S. There is a slight chance that this feature appears in version 4.1 if our developers manage to handle the rest of the changes in time. Even if the feature is left for 4.2 we can create a custom build and send it to you as soon as we have implemented it.

Thank you for your feedback. Here is what is currently supported by Planner.NET:

1. Create an appointment/resource in the resource view by clicking and dragging.

This is not yet supported, but we are already working on it. It is not currently possible to create an appointment merely by clicking and dragging, but we will add this functionaliy as well.

2. The ability to right click on an appointment to popup a context menu.

You need to handle the ItemClick event and display a context menu for the clicked item.

3. The ability to highlight (Different colour?) a day or any number of days to indicate something special about that day.

Likely possible. Planner.NET supports wide variety of appearance customization options, including custom drawing.

4. The ability to hover over or click the days described above (or even the column header) to show a tooltip or something to indicate what is special about that day.

Tooltips are currently supported only for items and column headers in the Timetable view. There are several click events though, that might be able to help in this regard. Can you please describe what do you mean under 'column headers'? Is this the timeline displayed at the top of the resource view?

As for the custom builds it is more like an intermediate versions containing features, which would be available in the next official release. These versions are used primarily for testing purposes by evaluators interested in those features.

Meppy

The resource view timeline does not currently support tooltips, but we will add this feature along with the other changes in the next release. I will send you a prerelease as soon as we are ready with the implementation of all requests.

Meppy

Meppy,

Thanks for that; but having a problem trying out the pre release version.
I copied the files to a folder. Started a new windows forms project in vs2005.

Added the calendar control to the toolbox by browsing to the folder with the pre release assemblies int. Tried to drag the control onto a form and received the following error: Couldn't get design time licence for mindfusion.scheduling.winforms.calendar .....

Regards,
Simon

[quote author=Meppy link=1155318211/0#8 date=1155800767]You can download a prerelease of version 4.1 from the following link:

[url]https://mindfusion.org/_planner/_Planner.NET_41pre_trial3.zip[/url]
[size=10][color=#ff6666](This is a temporary url and might not work in the future.)[/color][/size]

The following features were added to the new version:

1) The Calendar.TooltipDisplaying event is now fired for the timelines of the resource view as well. You can check the Element property of the accompanying event data object. If the value is ResourceViewTopTimeline, ResourceViewMiddleTimeline or ResourceViewBottomTimeline, then the tooltip is being displayed for the corresponding timeline. You can then check the Time property of the same data object to determine which day in the timeline is being hovered, and display the appropriate tooltip by settings the tooltip text to the Tooltip property.

I've added the following bit of code to the Calendar.TooltipDisplaying event

       If e.Element = MindFusion.Scheduling.WinForms.CalendarElement.ResourceViewBottomTimeline Then
           If e.Time.Day = 22 And e.Time.Month = 8 And e.Time.Year = 2006 Then
               e.Tooltip = "Special day!!!!"
           End If
       End If

It fires and e.tooltip is set, but no tootip is displayed. What am I doing wrong

2) You can now create appointments in the Resource view interactively. This functionality is enabled by default. You can also create appointments now by merely dragging in the view. To do so, set the Calendar.EnableDragCreate to true.

Excellent, but if I just click and don't drag an item is still created, how can I prevent this.

Meppy[/quote]

Try this version:

https://mindfusion.org/_planner/_Planner.NET_41pre_trial5.zip
(This is a temporary url and might not work in the future.)

Items now should not be created when the user clicks without moving the mouse.

Meppy