On Sep 17, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
David E Jones wrote:
On Sep 17, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
What about an employee work schedule? I want to assign an
employee to work in the roof department from 8am to 5pm,
Monday through Friday, with a lunch break from 12:00 to
12:30pm. Where would those recurring events go?
Here's what I wrote in Jira OFBIZ-1956: "To push this further,
and to answer Jacques' question: the WorkEffort entity is
already designed to handle work schedules using the
WorkEffortType "Available" (ID: AVAILABLE)."
Wouldn't that be confusing? When someone is working they are
available? It seems to me someone is available if they are *not*
working.
That's correct, they're not working, they're available for work.
In other words those are times when events (or tasks with
scheduling) can be assigned, or when looking at all tasks
assigned and their estimated times how many days it will take to
complete them (and when each will start, etc).
Understood.
Okay, one more question (for future reference, not having to do
with recurring events):
In the example I gave above, I need to show that the employee is
working during those hours - that they are *not* available. Is
there a WorkEffortType for that?
I'm coming from the perspective of production employees punching a
time clock. They are supposed to be working 8am - 5pm, Monday
through Friday.
What is it that they're not available for? Do you mean when they
are working they are not available? In other words, they have a
calendar event that makes them unavailable 8-5 M-F?
That's exactly what I mean. It could be I'm used to seeing things
from a different perspective than what you're describing.
I understand the approach you're describing - someone is available
for work so their work schedule is flagged as available. The
perspective I'm accustomed to is an employee is available for work
when they are not already working. They are available for work when
they are "off."
So, I have to look at it differently. An employee is "off" when they
are not available.
No big deal. It will take some getting used to.
If someone has nothing scheduled then all it means is we don't know
anything about their schedule, and it may be that they are available
for an appointment or something. If we look at their calendar and see
"Available" type of events then we know they are available for work
unless there is a specific calendar event scheduled on top of the
availability which would make them unavailable.
Does that help? We could change the description of this WorkEffortType
to be "Available for Work" or something...
-David
