►OPINION◄ How to do/offer Scheduling in Mobile Platform?

BenHayat

Since Aware's Mobile platform doesn't support Scheduling & Calendar, and you need to offer an scheduling system for the customer to schedule (using the Calendar look & feel of the desktop version) their tasks or things to do and etc., how would you go about it to provide some sort scheduling feature to the Mobile users?

Your thoughts are greatly appreciated!

hpl123

Ben,
I am also looking at different option to be able to provide calendar etc. options in mobile apps. Here are the solutions I know of right now:

In 6.0, grouping was introduced in queries meaning you could use grouping to group appointments after days, weeks etc.
FR: Mobile grouping (comment)&hilit=mobile+grouping#p28648
I have also looked into plain html mobile calendars we could integrate into a mobile app (i.e. use business rules to create the appointments in html which then populate the html calendar that is displayed to user). This solution should work but requires some work. I have not found a suitable html calendar to use yet.

If you come anywhere with this or if other developers has other ideas or already implemented solutions, please share the knowledge. Thanks

PS: Currently Aware IM works great for desktops and tablets but the mobile side is far behind and I hope Awaresoft focuses some more on this next. Mobile is essential in todays world.

BenHayat

Thanks Henrik;

Awaresoft uses a third party component for scheduling. After checking, it seems like the DO have the Mobile version for scheduling (Aware's Calendar).

To Support:
Could you please consider adding the Mobile version of "Touch Scheduler" to Aware system? Clients need that as part of their project.

http://www.bryntum.com/products/touch-scheduler/

Thanks!

hpl123

BenHayat wrote
Thanks Henrik;

Awaresoft uses a third party component for scheduling. After checking, it seems like the DO have the Mobile version for scheduling (Aware's Calendar).

To Support:
Could you please consider adding the Mobile version of "Touch Scheduler" to Aware system? Clients need that as part of their project.

http://www.bryntum.com/products/touch-scheduler/

Thanks!

Sure touch scheduler would be nice. IMO, more importantly thought before scheduler is calendar (having both is ideal):
https://market.sencha.com/extensions/ext-ux-touchcalendar

BenHayat

hpl123 wrote
BenHayat wrote
Thanks Henrik;

Awaresoft uses a third party component for scheduling. After checking, it seems like the DO have the Mobile version for scheduling (Aware's Calendar).

To Support:
Could you please consider adding the Mobile version of "Touch Scheduler" to Aware system? Clients need that as part of their project.

http://www.bryntum.com/products/touch-scheduler/

Thanks!

Sure touch scheduler would be nice. IMO, more importantly thought before scheduler is calendar (having both is ideal):

Henrik, I think you missed my point. The component that Aware uses is called "Scheduling" in the third party terminology, which Aware calls it Calendar. So Bryntum Scheduling is the same as Aware's Calendar. Awaresoft, doesn't need to implement Sencha's calender, because they already have the Mobile version of Calendar that we use in Desktop from Beyntum.

hpl123

Ben,
Sorry, still don´t follow what you mean.

Here is the calendar used in Aware IM:
http://dev.sencha.com/extjs/5.0.0/examples/calendar/index.html

Here is the scheduler used in Aware IM:
http://www.bryntum.com/examples/scheduler-latest/examples/configuration/configuration.html

Please elaborate. Thanks

BenHayat

hpl123 wrote
Ben,
Sorry, still don´t follow what you mean.

Here is the calendar used in Aware IM:
http://dev.sencha.com/extjs/5.0.0/examples/calendar/index.html

Here is the scheduler used in Aware IM:
http://www.bryntum.com/examples/scheduler-latest/examples/configuration/configuration.html

Please elaborate. Thanks

Henrik, perhaps the confusion was on my part since I wasn't aware that AwareSoft had used Sencha's Calendar and Beyntum together. I thought it was ALL Bryntum's products. My mistake, my apology!

hpl123

Ben,
Sure, no problem.

aware_support

We do plan to provide mobile support for calendar and scheduler in the next major release.

BenHayat

aware_support wrote
We do plan to provide mobile support for calendar and scheduler in the next major release.

Ah, Thank you support

hpl123

aware_support wrote
We do plan to provide mobile support for calendar and scheduler in the next major release.

GREAT news support 🙂. Now when Aware IM greatly covers desktop and tablet, mobile is behind so great to hear this will be part of you focus next.

BenHayat

hpl123 wrote
aware_support wrote
We do plan to provide mobile support for calendar and scheduler in the next major release.

GREAT news support 🙂. Now when Aware IM greatly covers desktop and tablet, mobile is behind so great to hear this will be part of you focus next.

I really hope Mobile becomes the primary focus for the next update. I also hope AwareSoft gives us more access to mobile API via Phonegap API service. This is becoming almost a requirement now for Webapps running on Mobile to have access to Mobile functionality via Phonegap rich API to Phones services, i.e. Contacts, GPS accessibility at any point and many others that phoneGap offers.

hpl123

BenHayat wrote
hpl123 wrote
aware_support wrote
We do plan to provide mobile support for calendar and scheduler in the next major release.

GREAT news support 🙂. Now when Aware IM greatly covers desktop and tablet, mobile is behind so great to hear this will be part of you focus next.

I really hope Mobile becomes the primary focus for the next update. I also hope AwareSoft gives us more access to mobile API via Phonegap API service. This is becoming almost a requirement now for Webapps running on Mobile to have access to Mobile functionality via Phonegap rich API to Phones services, i.e. Contacts, GPS accessibility at any point and many others that phoneGap offers.

Gabbitas

+100 for better mobile options. Great news about calendar and scheduler in next release.

I also agree with Ben - more phone gap features / integration from within AwareIM would be great. My number 1 request on this front would be the ability for an app to be able to remember business space name, username and password for a user at runtime.

Thanks

BenHayat

Mobile Business Apps (connected to backend) are becoming the next wave of development and Aware is in a perfect place for it.
Hybrid apps (using phongap/Cordova) is much more preferred by end-user that running the app in standalone browser like we do in Desktop. So support, please take these inputs as feedback coming from consumers.