B4J: New ABMPlanner and ABMPercentSlider (ABMaterial 2.50)

abmplanner A friend of mine, who is a doctor, wanted me to write a scheduling webapp. He had some perticular requests:

1. You should be able to schedule per 5 minutes
2. But still need to be able to see the whole week
3. Wanted only to see the 5 working days (no weekends)
4. Should see from 06:00 to 21:00
5. As his assistant has to ‘fill’ the schedule, he also wanted somehow to show her when he would not be available.

I told him this quickly added up to showing about 840 possible appointments I had to show him on his desktop, tablet and iPhone. “Yes”, was his dry answer…

I didn’t know any such object, so I’ve put on my thinking hat and came up with ABMPlanner for B4J!

Although it has been written especially for his needs, I’m sure it can come in handy for other kind of projects too. For example you can schedule per 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes. You can set the start/end time of a day. And it can show a full week (including the weekend). You can give each task different colors etc…

It can also show the week as a ‘HeatMap’, so he can see very fast where he can put someone in-between other patients.

The second component ABMPercentSlider (in the video when the modalsheet is opened) is an alternative radio group component. It ranges the possibilities in a ‘percentage’ range, with 5% intervals.

But have a look at the video (app is work in progress and sorry it is in dutch). It can be intimidating at first glance, but once you ‘get’ it, it’s actually a breeze to schedule stuff.

Some relevant code:

BuildPage:

Dim plan As ABMPlanner
plan.Initialize(page, "plan", False, 6,20, 5,False,"black")
plan.UseHeatMap("1,3,6")
page.Cell(2,1).AddComponent(plan)

Adding a task (loading a random generated week):

Sub LoadRandomWeek(StartDay As Long,doRefresh As Boolean)
   Dim plan As ABMPlanner = page.Component("plan")
   plan.ClearPlanner

   Dim Days(7) As String
   Dim Day As Int = DateTime.GetDayOfMonth(StartDay)
   Dim nextDay As Long = StartDay
   Dim perNext As Period
   perNext.Initialize
   perNext.Days = 1
   For i = 0 To 6
     If ActiveDay = -1 Then
       If DateTime.Date(nextDay) = DateTime.Date(DateTime.Now) Then
         ActiveDay = i
       End If
     End If
     Days(i)   = Day
     If Days(i).Length = 1 Then
       Days(i) = "0" &amp; Days(i)
     End If
     nextDay = DateUtils.AddPeriod(nextDay, perNext)
     Day = DateTime.GetDayOfMonth(nextDay)
   Next
   Dim mins As List
   mins.Initialize
   mins.Add(1)
   mins.Add(3)
   mins.Add(6)
   mins.Add(12)
   plan.SetDayLabels("MA " &amp; Days(0), "DI " &amp; Days(1), "WO " &amp; Days(2), "DO " &amp; Days(3), "VR " &amp; Days(4),  "ZA " &amp; Days(5),  "ZO " &amp; Days(6))
   Dim PerTotal As Int = 12

   For i = 0 To 4
     Dim u As Int = 6
     Dim m As Int = 0
     Dim l As Int = 0
     Dim lIndex As Int
     Do While u &lt; 21
       Do While m &lt; PerTotal    
         m = m + Rnd(1,3)          
         lIndex = Rnd(0,3)
         l = mins.Get(lIndex)
         If (u*PerTotal + m + l) &lt; (21*PerTotal) And m &lt; PerTotal And (i &lt;&gt; 2 Or u &lt;=11 ) Then
           Dim patient As String = FirstNames.get(Rnd(0,19)) &amp; " " &amp; LastNames.get(Rnd(0,19))
           counter = counter + 1
           plan.AddTask(NewTask(i, "T" &amp; counter,u,m,l,patient,lIndex)) ' taskid must be a string!                
         End If
         m = m + l
       Loop
       m = m - PerTotal
       u = u + 1
     Loop
   Next

   plan.SetActiveDay(ActiveDay)
   For i = 12 To 20
     plan.SetHourStatus(2,i,False)
   Next
   If doRefresh Then
     plan.Refresh
   End If
End Sub

Events:

Sub plan_ActiveDayChanged(day As Int)
   Log("New day: " &amp; day)
   ActiveDay = day
   ' important to sync the server with the browser!
   Dim plan As ABMPlanner = page.Component("plan")
   plan.SetActiveDay(ActiveDay)
End Sub

Sub plan_MinutesClicked(Value As String)
   Dim spl() As String = Regex.Split(";", Value)
   ' spl(0) is here always 0, as this would contain the menu item clicked.  This is to be uniform with the MenuClicked Value param
   Log("Day: " &amp; spl(1))
   Log("Hour: " &amp; spl(2))
   Log("MinPer5: " &amp; spl(3))
   ' use the ABM.PLANNER_STATUS_ constants to check the status
   Log("Status: " &amp; spl(4))
   Log("Task ID: " &amp; spl(5))

   page.ShowModalSheet("patientafspraak")
End Sub

Sub plan_MenuClicked(MenuType As String, Value As String)
   Dim spl() As String = Regex.Split(";", Value)
   Dim plan As ABMPlanner = page.Component("plan")
   Log("MenuType: " &amp; MenuType)
   Log("Value: " &amp; Value)
   Select Case MenuType
     Case ABM.PLANNER_MENUTYPE_DAY
       ' update the database

       Log("Day: " &amp; spl(1))

       Select Case spl(0)
         Case ABM.PLANNER_MENU_SETFREE
           plan.SetDayStatus(spl(1), True)
         Case ABM.PLANNER_MENU_SETNOTAVAILABLE
           plan.SetDayStatus(spl(1), False)
       End Select

       ' IMPORTANT to perform the action in the browser
       plan.PerfromDayHourMenuAction
     Case ABM.PLANNER_MENUTYPE_HOUR
       ' update the database

       Log("Day: " &amp; spl(1))
       Log("Hour: " &amp; spl(2))

       Select Case spl(0)
         Case ABM.PLANNER_MENU_SETFREE
           plan.SetHourStatus(spl(1), spl(2), True)
         Case ABM.PLANNER_MENU_SETNOTAVAILABLE
           plan.SetHourStatus(spl(1), spl(2), False)
       End Select

       ' IMPORTANT to perform the action in the browser
       plan.PerfromDayHourMenuAction  
     Case ABM.PLANNER_MENUTYPE_MIN
       ' update the database

       Log("Day: " &amp; spl(1))
       Log("Hour: " &amp; spl(2))
       Log("MinPer5: " &amp; spl(3))
       ' use the ABM.PLANNER_STATUS_ constants to check the status
       Log("Status: " &amp; spl(4))
       Log("Task ID: " &amp; spl(5))

       Select Case spl(0)
         Case ABM.PLANNER_MENU_CUT
           cutTaskID = spl(5)
           copyTask = plan.GetTask(spl(5))
           IsCut = True
           myToastID = myToastID + 1
           page.ShowToast("toast" &amp; myToastID, "toastred", "Verplaats " &amp; copyTask.Text &amp; " naar...", 5000)
         Case ABM.PLANNER_MENU_COPY
           copyTask = plan.GetTask(spl(5))
           IsCut = False
           myToastID = myToastID + 1
           page.ShowToast("toast" &amp; myToastID, "toastred", "Kopieer " &amp; copyTask.Text &amp; " naar...", 5000)
         Case ABM.PLANNER_MENU_PASTE
           If IsCut Then
             plan.RemoveTask2(cutTaskID)
           Else
             counter = counter + 1
             copyTask = copyTask.Clone("T" &amp; counter)
           End If
           copyTask.Day = spl(1)
           copyTask.StartHour = spl(2)      
           copyTask.StartMinututesPer = spl(3)
           plan.AddTask(copyTask)      
           plan.Refresh
           If IsCut Then
             myToastID = myToastID + 1
             page.ShowToast("toast" &amp; myToastID, "toastred", copyTask.Text &amp; " verplaatst!", 5000)
           Else
             myToastID = myToastID + 1
             page.ShowToast("toast" &amp; myToastID, "toastred", copyTask.Text &amp; " gekopieerd!", 5000)
           End If
         Case ABM.PLANNER_MENU_DELETE
           plan.RemoveTask2(spl(5))
           plan.Refresh
       End Select

   End Select
End Sub

These are the final components for ABMaterial 2.50. I’m now going to prepare everything for the next release. (updating the demos etc), so donators will receive these new toys shortly…

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