Several improvements (watching slots, import via CSV, mobile support, ...)

[FMCorz]

Hi,

The Royal College of Art have sponsored the development of additional features in the Scheduler module and wished to share those back. Here is a rather large pull request which includes them all for your consideration.

We attempted to minimise the impact of these changes on the existing code in order to facilitate its integration in the main repository. We purposely did not refactor some areas of the code and opted for duplicated logic to avoid adding regressions, and added complexity.

Here is a list of the features which were included:

• Additional Activity completion criterion based on attendance
• Importing slots from a CSV file
• Revoking individuals out of a group slot
• Adding support for sorting the list of slots
• Adding support for filtering the list of slots
• Give the ability for students to watch slots that are full, and receive a notification when they become available. The number of slots that can be watched at the same time is customisable.
• Mobile support for teachers to view slots, grade and mark attendance
• Mobile support for students to view and book slots. (Except for bookings requiring file upload)

Thank you for your consideration.

This was developed and tested on Moodle 3.7 and is currently used in production with Moodle 3.8.

[jtsafran]

@bostelm Thoughts on integrating this into master? The use of this in mobile would be awesome!

[ptramonti]

We are also interested in the integration into the master! Can we know if it is your intentions?

[bostelm]

Hello all,
first, thanks a lot for sharing your work. Second, I'm sorry for not responding earlier - time pressures due to the pandemic meant that I wasn't able to prepare a new major release of Scheduler (which is where this would go). Third, yes, I'm interested in integrating this (possibly in parts). I hope I can look at it soon. Meanwhile, if you could rebase the patch to current master - it's been a while - that would be helpful.

[ptramonti]

Hello,
any news on this integration?

[lucaboesch]

@FMCorz any chance those improvements could still be shared back, even if it has been some time ago?

Best,
Luca

[FMCorz]

Hi @lucaboesch,

The improvements have been shared back a while ago. It is unfortnate that they haven't been integrated yet, but at the moment I am unable to invest the time required to properly rebase the branch and test all of the added features.

Kind regards,
Fred

[FMCorz]

I meant to leave a comment here a few months ago, but apparently I forgot to publish it. The branch had been rebased. And more changes are pending in a separate branch.

[FMCorz]

This branch (rca) and rca-more have together been rebased on master in rca-more-rebased.

[Buda9]

Thank you so much for this @FMCorz. Love this PR and your products! 🎉