Calendar view

You want to:

• See your planned Changes on a calendar view?
• Get a quick overview of contracts ending next month?
• Visualize Physical Devices reaching End of warranty on a timeline view?

Then this extension is for you.

This extension brings a new Calendar Dashlet which can be added to any Dashboard

From a user perspective

• Objects are displayed on a calendar view, as meetings in a google calendar,
• Objects can have a different color depending on a field value (status for eg.),
• User can switch between Day, Week, Month or List display modes,
• User can navigate to the next or the previous day/week/month,
• User can choose to hide some groups of objects, within the displayed ones,

It's not possible to display FunctionalCIs at the date of a Change they are linked to. The date field must be an attribute of the displayed object.

• iTop 2.4 or later

Use the Standard installation process for this extension.

Some configuration parameters are available for this extension:

  'combodo-calendar-view' => array (
                'default_scope_count' => 4,
                'max_scope_count' => 10,
                'default_event_duration' => 15,
                'first_day' => 1,
                'business_hours' => array (
                  1 => '08:00, 19:00',
                  2 => '08:00, 19:00',
                  3 => '08:00, 19:00',
                  4 => '08:00, 19:00',
                  5 => '08:00, 19:00',
                ),
        ),

The Dashlet designer specifies

• the objects displayed in the Dashlet as scopes
• sub-groups of object based on a field (groups per status for example)
• the colors to use per group of object,
• the default display mode,….

• If date attribute (without time) is used either the Start date or the End date, the objects are displayed as full-day event in Daily and Weekly display mode.
• Group by field values will displayed under the scope name, hidden by default.

• If “Rainbow (multicolors)” is selected then each group will get a different plain color, instead of a different shade of a unique color.

• If no Group by field is selected, then Colors mode is useless and “Rainbow (multicolors)” is equivalent to “Orange”.

Here is an example with 2 scopes, both with groups.

• Physical Devices uses a purple “shades” grouping by “brand”
• Changes uses a “Rainbow” grouping by “status”

Here the display of the same example as below.

• Change uses a date-time Start date and Start date End date, so object are displayed with their duration (Object with no End date will be displayed with a duration defined in the Extension configuration parameter default_event_duration),
• Physical Device uses a date End warranty date, which means object are displayed as “all day” events in Daily and Weekly display modes

The default display mode of our example is a Week

User can decide to hide some of the groups by opening the criteria and un-selecting some groups

User can switch to a different display mode, such as List for a month:

or Month displayed as a table with one row per week and one cell per day:

• Full day object have a colored background behind their name
• Object with a starting hour, have a colored bullet in front of its name

When there are too many objects in a cell, a number of not-yet-displayed objects is provided and you can click on it to display the complete list of objects for that day.

On any object displayed, moving the mouse over it display a tooltip with

1. the friendlyname,
2. the description,
3. the Start date,
4. End date,
5. The scope name and the group value in parentheses