Booking Pool: Revision of List View in tab ›› Bookable Items

1 Initial Problem

With the features Week View for Booking Tool, Abandon the booking of different time slots within one reservation process and Improvement of the booking process in Booking Tools with Fixed Schedules it is not possible to book several bookable items from ILIAS 9 on.

This limits the booking process:

The ILIAS Community stated this as a problem within different mantis reports and a feature workshop.

In addition, the list view is offered for Booking Pools with a fixed schedule, but at the end the booking process always redirects the user to the week view. Therefore the list view can be replaced from our point of view.

We identified the main problem in the different scenarios for the Booking Pool: Some offering a lot of Bookable Items and a lot of time slots and others just offering a few. With a large number of Bookable Items / time slots, the Week View currently is not usable.

2 Conceptual Summary

Our aim is to offer the described needs (see above) with replacing the list view (see above) by a table view and keeping the week view. With this replacement the Table View and the Week View will be completely separated. Bookings can be made at the Table View OR at the Week View.

2.1 Week View

The Week View will stay as it is and issues with it are out of the scope of this Feature Request. We made a few improvements at the Week View in order to make the booking process more user friendly (e.g. redirect to the same week after making a booking). If funding is found, more improvements for the Week View can be implemented.

2.2 List View ›› Table View

The List View will completely replaced by a new Table View. At this View, all Bookable Items and time slots of the Booking Pool are potentially shown. In order to not show too many entries at the table, filters are available and will be pre-set.

The table view allows the user to book Bookable Items in two ways:

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

3.2 User Interface Details

3.2.1 Booking Pool with Fixed Schedule ›› Bookable Items

At the top of the screen, the view control only will be changed slightly: The word "List" will be changed to "Table".

As filters above the table there will be:

The data table will show the following columns:

Screen from administrative perspective

Screen from user perspective

3.2.2 Booking Pool with Direct Booking ›› Bookable Items

The screen for Booking Pools with Direct Booking mode will be pretty the same with the following restrictions.

As filters above the table there will be only:

The data table will show the following columns only:

The availabe Actions will be the same as above, because users are still able to make bookings.

3.2.3 Booking Pool with Using Preferences ›› Bookable Items

The screen for Booking Pools with Using Preferences mode will be the same as it is at the Direct Booking mode.

As filters above the table there will be only:

The data table will show the following columns only:

The availabe Actions will be the same as above, because administrative users are still able to make bookings.

3.2.4 Booking Pool ›› Modal Booking Confirmation

The modal in order to confirm the booking stays at it is at the Week View.

At the Table View, the user is able to book multiple Bookable Items / Time slots. Therefore the modal will have all selected Time Slots listed and a message can be entered for every Bookable Item.

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

No new UI-concepts needed, because the KitchenSink data table will be used.

3.4 Accessibility Implications

No accessibility implications expected beause of the use of KitchenSink UI.

4 Additional Information

4.1 Involved Authorities

4.2 Technical Aspects

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4.3 Privacy

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4.4 Security

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4.5 Contact

Person to be contacted in case of questions about the feature or for funding offers: Lowe, Simon [simon.lowe]

4.6 Funding

Funding status and funding parties are listed in the block 'Status of Feature' in the right column of this page.

If you are interested to give funding for this feature, please get into contact with the person mentioned above as 'Contact'.

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