How to make a weekly event scheduler

[csjasnoch]

I need a weekly event scheduling vi and I am not sure if it is already done or what would be best to use to make it.

I would like to be able to set each day seperately on half hour incriments. I have about 4 events that need to be considered and with half hours this creates a massive ugly matrix if I use enumerators.

I was thinking it would be kewl to use something simular to the Draw graph tools and format it into a time and such but had a lot of difficulties in making multiple graphs (Sun-Sat thus 7 are needed but no x cord is needed). If this were done then I would set events by using different colors or something.

I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Thank you.

-Collin

[unclebump]

Maybe you can use an outlook activex object.

http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.display_epd4?p_guid=B123AE0CBCE3111EE034080020E74861

[csjasnoch]

No that does not really help. I am more particular about the GUI of the scheduler. I know it should be able to be done with out much trouble in LabVIEW on the timming sence but organizing a easy to use GUI is a bit difficult.

The one you showed is more for just one event and setting it on a day.

I need something more for a weekly planning of a complex schedule which could have more than 4 events taking place every half hour (so 48 periods per day).

Thank you for the suggestion though.

Anything else?

[unclebump]

Have you got an example of any existing software package that will do this??

[csjasnoch]

I have not used it by my boss said "Security Spy" works like that. It is a program that turns on and off cameras with the set intervals. It might be a strictly Mac based program because that is waht we have it on.

[tst]

Here's a quick example (7.0) for how something like this can be done - the colors represent the tasks, you select a color and then click and drag to select which cells will receive that color. There are 48 columns and 7 rows.

Is this enough or do you need to set tasks to run concurrently?

[unclebump]

Sounds to me like you want a drum sequencer in labview. Maybe with 15 minute increments for 24/7/365. Maybe a timestamp control or just boolean checkboxes.

[csjasnoch]

That will work great!

Thank you

[csjasnoch]

tst-
Where are the colors being set? Since green and red are often color blind to some people I want to adjust one of them but can't seem to find where you set them....

[tst]

I used a picture ring. I simply took one of the LV decorations, made several copies, painted each a different color, Ctrl+Ced each copy and then imported it into the ring.