As I was giving a demo to some of the internal guys (small sales pitch on vision and options), I was showing what we did for Beaver Mountain and their horizontal time view (time across the top and their ski lesson instructors down the left side with their time periods marked out for when they are booked). I thought that it would be cool to let the users setup those (or similar) horizontal templates using settings. They could name the template, create new, assign filter or search criteria, able to edit or delete, search, view, and even get their own URL or address (similar to how we do saved reports). I thought that would be super cool. Allow for time blocks to be set across the top - start/end times, block size (10 mins, 15 mins, 30 mins, hours, etc.), and what to show down the left side. This could be people, users, customers, vendors, locations, items, etc.

Imagine a template that you could setup what it looked like (settings), what it pulled (settings), and how it displays that data (layout based on settings for persons, places, or things). That would be so cool. Basically, what we created for Beaver Mountain Ski School, but configurable.

Here are some small ideas (just scratching the surface): Instructors and lessons that are booked per instructor, classes being taught per room, shooting ranges and lane assignments and booked slots, employee work schedules, light rentals, appointments, multiple person schedules (each with a different URL to access a person at a time or a different URL to see all together, if needed), daily task lists, etc., etc.

Filters could be time templates, colors, phases, action statuses (started, stopped, pending, completed, etc.), assigned to (person, place or things), or whatever.

The Beaver Mountain horizontal view deals with conflicts, drill-downs to the underlying events (elements of time), and also allows for quick adding based on values within the horizontal view. For example: Say you have an instructor and they have an opening from 2-4 pm. If you click on the "+" sign in that section, it would already know the date, the person, the time block, and other criteria. You then take that info and auto fill out the form so it becomes super easy to add to the horizontal grid based on quick steps. All kinds of stuff could be passed through to the next (create new) page. Anyways, just wanted to record this idea and jot down some notes.

- New note added on 7/19/21

What about vertical time views (visual blocking out the time slots). We already have a time slot report which shows things going down, and it's pretty cool. It could be built out even better and show things in blocks. Currently, it just shows the span but not a visual block yet. If we could just take it to the next level, it would be pretty cool. Just ideas here, what about anything that could fit in the same vertical block, great. If there is a conflict or double booking, we add another vertical column. The horizontal time view adds extra rows. The vertical time view could add extra columns (very similar).