Revision of consulting hours in portfolio

1 Initial Problem

• Typically, consultation hours are offerd once a week or even bi-weekly or monthly.
• Currently the presented grid view requires a lot of space conveying little information.
• The consultation hour slot is small to click at and no specifics for the appointment are displayed. 
• The print of the presentation is unsightly.

Screenshot of Issue

2 Conceptual Summary

The consultation hours should be presented as list of appointments including as day, time, origin, location, booking status and contact.

3 User Interface Modifications

The presentation should be streamlined with  Usability Improvements Main Column List Calendar from the Calendar Revision. 

• The owner of the portfolio and the respective consultation hours sequence is presented with the actions:
  • Edit > calling for the form "EDIT MULTIPLE APPOINTMENTS" editing the sequence
  • Bookings > calling for the table "BOOKED APPOINTMENTS"
  • Assign Users > calling the form "ADD MEMBERS"
• All users that view the portfolio will be presented only with those slots that are either available or booked by themselves. Slots that are fully booked up by others are not displayed, as it has been in 5.2 and prior.
  • For a slot that a user has booked the  action "Cancel Booking" 
  • For a slot that is still available the user has the action "Book Appointment". 

3.1 List of Affected Views

• page element "Consultation Hours"

3.2 User Interface Details

Page Element "consultation hours" in Portfolios

• No small calendar grid. (as in 5.3)
• Use status labels with coloured text (no green or red dot for booking)
• Use the colour of the consultations hours for the line on the left. (No coloured line on the left for status. Such behavior does not exist anywhere else.)
  • Note: Colour of consultations hours can not edit. (Apparently a feature.)
• No Filters and no Navigation like in Calendar (as in 5.3)
• Days default is month.

MOCKUP after Discussion with Yvonne and Timon.

Discarded design

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

No

4 Technical Information

The current integration of the consultation hours into the porfolio is quite complex, since it offers the interactivity directly in the portfolio.

5 Contact

• Author of the Request: Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
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6 Funding

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• possibly Technische Hochschule OWL

7 Discussion

Killing, Alexander [alex], 4 May 2023: The current integration of the consultation hours into the porfolio is quite complex, since it offers the interactivity directly in the portfolio. I would prefer a solution that only presents an overview of upcoming available consultation hours and then links out of the portfolio to the consultation hour main screen (maybe in a course context).

8 Implementation

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