160298 - [RFE] Shaded colored areas to allow Event and Sub-Events

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[David]

You should be able to highlight a period of time with a color and name that 
shaded area. For example, I may be away at a exposition or in New York for 
three days and I would highlight that period in a particular color and then 
organise my conference or NY appointments on top on the color (but because the 
background is set at a color I know that I am there) - I am never able to do 
this in Outlook - which is a pain if you travel a lot, and/or are at many 
conferences/expositions. This effectively allows you to create an event, and a 
sub-event of that event!

Comment 1

[Peter Lairo]

Attachment: Screenshot of All-/Multiday events (colored bars above most days)

Probable a better way to do this would be the ability to define an event as an
*all or multi-day* event. These events would take up only *one line* on the
screen, be colored and would show very quickly what that day was all about. The
detailed schedules would be listed below. New bug?

Comment 2

[Brant Gurganus]

I like those ideas.

Comment 3

[Peter Lairo]

Which ideas were you referring to, the summarie's or my comments (with
screenshot)? :-\

Comment 4

[Mike Potter]

I like this idea too, but I think its a bit too much for right now.
Sending it to [e-mail] in case someone else wants to take it on for now.

Comment 5

[Russell Levy]

I like the idea of sub events. For example, if someone is busy from 9-12 with
one event every day, you want that to be shown as busy. At the same time, you
would also like to show that from 11-12, you have a meeting, with the meeting a
sub-event of the 9-12 event.

Comment 6

[hwtan3]

This is not totally the same as what had discussed but somewhere along the line.
Is it possible to change the colour of the shaded area for each categories of
event in the month view through the Tools-Options-Generals-categories-edit.
Also, for events that last a few days,  in the month view, we do not have to
repeat the same start time in the box of each day. A continuous coloured bar is
preferred. For this we may need to have a differentiation between event(which
last a whole day or days) and appointment(which last for only a portion of a day).

Comment 7

[Markus Korjonen]

I'm not sure if I understood completely, but I've been thinking about having a
color/bar for each task. When a user wants, he should be able to click those
bars visible, and they would be seen on every days field from current to the day
the task is appointed to.

This is really hard to explain, but for example in the week view, if today is
the 18th and I would have a task, for expamle to return an essay on the 25th, I
would appoint a task to the 25th(return essay) and select a color,(red) and then
when I choose so, I would see every day from current, to the 25th colored as
red. If multiple tasks, the of course every days cell has to be divided in
multiple colors etc.

I hope someone understood

Comment 8

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

We support multi-day-allday events now. There is another bug for making that one non-stop line.