Schedule App

The schedule app allows staff members to create the schedule for the conference’s presentations, breaks, lunches, etc.

The `schedule` app has a number of models that facilitate building the structured schedule:

  • Schedule: A high level container that maps to each Conference Section.
  • Day: A Day associated with a Schedule.
  • Room: A Room associated with a Schedule.
  • Slot Kind: A type of Slot associated with a Schedule.
  • Slot: A discrete time period for a Schedule.
  • Slot Room: A mapping of a Room and Slot for a given Schedule.
  • Presentation: A mapping of a Slot to an approved Proposal from the `proposals` app.

Schedule Builder Form

It can be cumbersome to generate a schedule through the admin. With that in mind, a generic schedule builder is available via a Schedule’s edit view. For instance, if a Conference site has a Talks Section and Schedule, the form would be available for Staff at:

/schedule/talks/edit

The form consumes a structured CSV file, from which it will build the schedule. Sample CSV data is included below:

"date","time_start","time_end","kind"," room "
"12/12/2013","10:00 AM","11:00 AM","plenary","Room2"
"12/12/2013","10:00 AM","11:00 AM","plenary","Room1"
"12/12/2013","11:00 AM","12:00 PM","talk","Room1"
"12/12/2013","11:00 AM","12:00 PM","talk","Room2"
"12/12/2013","12:00 PM","12:45 PM","plenary","Room1"
"12/12/2013","12:00 PM","12:45 PM","plenary","Room2"
"12/13/2013","10:00 AM","11:00 AM","plenary","Room2"
"12/13/2013","10:00 AM","11:00 AM","plenary","Room1"
"12/13/2013","11:00 AM","12:00 PM","talk","Room1"
"12/13/2013","11:00 AM","12:00 PM","talk","Room2"
"12/13/2013","12:00 PM","12:45 PM","plenary","Room1"
"12/13/2013","12:00 PM","12:45 PM","plenary","Room2"

It is worth noting that this generates the structure of the schedule. It does not create Presentation objects. This will need to be done manually.

One can also delete an existing schedule via the delete action. This is irreversible (save for a database restore).