Hide not-available times in printing

Started by math, June 16, 2018, 12:30:37 PM

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math

I finished my timetabling process for next semester, so I'll probably be a little less active than in the previous weeks. However, there's one suggestion left:

When printing the teacher timetables (Timetable -> Print -> Teachers) this table contains "---" for slots were the teacher is availble and "-x-" for all slots that were specified in Time -> Teachers -> A Teacher's not available times. Since I'm publishing the generated PDFs, everybody is able to see which (and how many) slots were blocked by other colleagues.

From my point of view this information is private and nobody needs to know what the other colleagues blocked. Unfortunately it's not possible to change this behaviour in the printing dialog, so I have to lock all the activities, then remove all the unavailable times for all teachers, before I finally can create PDFs containing the generated timetables.

My suggestion: would it be possible to add a checkbox "Hide status information" to the printing dialog? If the checkbox is FALSE, the generated timetables look as the currently do. If the checkbox is TRUE, unallocated slots in the timetable are simple empty, so without any "---" or "-x-" content.

My suggestion does not only focus on the printing dialog for teachers, but all kinds of timetables that can be generated.

Volker Dirr

Quote from: math on June 16, 2018, 12:30:37 PMUnfortunately it's not possible to change this behaviour in the printing dialog, so I have to lock all the activities, then remove all the unavailable times for all teachers, before I finally can create PDFs containing the generated timetables.

That is wrong (complicated). Just go to FET -> Settings -> Timetables -> Mark not available slots. You can disable it there.

math


Volker Dirr

Sadly a bit hidden. But we don't want to place that also into the printing dialog.
That dialog is already too full. And there are a lot of "missing" options in that dialog.
Also i hope Qt will fix the width and hight bug, so i hope i can add that into the printing dialog.
I hope it will be possible to add that 2 options as soon as the bug is fixed, but there are sadly guys using much lower screen resolutions and those guys will get problems to read if we add (much) more options there.