Re: [GENERAL] scheduling table design

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 davidb@vectormath.com wrote:

> Hello Mr. Barnes,
> 
> I don't know of a nice solution to the problem of scheduling events that may
> occur indeterminately far into the future.  The way I have solved this
why you need that? cycling scheduling? -- that is my "issue" also. For
cycling scheduling, I have to set a limit. I'm considering a subroutine to
automatically batch-extend the limit. And, the third step is add a
subroutine to kind of sense the need to extend the limit Dynamically (not
only batch-extend) -- that is much more difficult, and I do not really
plan to do that ;-) 
> problem before is to have a table of available items.  In this case the
> available items would be something like:
> 1 9:00 Dr. Jones
> 2 9:30 Dr. Jones
> 3 10:00 Dr. Jones
> .
> .
> .
> 17 9:00 Dr. Smith
> 18 9:30 Dr. Smith
> 19 10:00 Dr. Smith
> etc.
> This serves as the control table.
nice. 

> One problem with this solution is that your client will have to settle on a
> minimum granularity for appointment times.  That is, does he have
> appointments every half hour, or every fifteen minutes?
it is a good idea. but why it is really necessary?