TDBPlanner

TDBPlanner

Flexible & powerful day/month/week/multi-day/multi-resource/timeline & custom scheduling user interface components

 

Feature overview

Highly configurable components for interactive planning & scheduling applications

• DB-aware and non DB-aware version included
• Modes through TDBDaySource, TDBMonthSource & TDBPeriodSource
• Tested with (but not limited to) following databases : dBase, Paradox, DBIsam, Access, Apollo, Interbase, SQL server 2000, TurboDB, FlashFiler,FireDac
• Items that can be resized /moved
• Inplace multiline editable items or rich text editable items
• Items with multiple imagelist images
• Items with caption time indication
• Readonly items
• Inplace forms
• Various display modes : day (5,6,10,15,30,60 min), week, month, day period, half day period & custom grid displays
• Multi day / resource view & multi resource / day view
• Controllable active day start, active day end, day start, day end
• Events for insert, delete, left click, right click of items
• Overlapped / non overlapped items
• HTML export
• Save to streams
• Item hints
• Rich text items
• Skinned items
• Printing
• 12/24 hrs display
• Internationalization capabilities
• Header with alignment, images, events
• Printing
• Layer support
• Linked items
• Alarms through various add-on alarm handler components
• Interfacing to spell checkers, including direct support for Addict Spell Check
• mini HTML formatted text in items item exchange components
• Built-in recurrency support for data-aware planner
• Special monthview and data-aware monthview
• Support for VCL styles

Highly configurable month calendars and datepickers that can be used with the TMS Planner components

Included components:

• TPlannerCalendar : highly configurable non DB-aware calendar component
• TDBPlannerCalendar : DB-aware calendar component that can automatically show events from a TMS Planner events database
• TPlannerCalendarGroup : multimonth calendar component
• TPlannerDatePicker : datepicker with highly configurable calendar dropdown
• TDBPlannerDatePicker : DB-aware datepicker with calendar dropdown that can automatically show events from a TMS Planner events database
• TDBPlannerMaskDatePicker : masked DB-aware datepicker with calendar dropdown that can automatically show events from a TMS Planner events database
• TPlannerDBDatePicker : single DB-field DB-aware datepicker with support for null-date entry
• TPlannerDBMaskDatePicker : masked single DB-field DB-aware datepicker with support for null-date entry
• TPlannerRangeSelector : control to input a date range, going from a start date to an end date

 

Additional tools and information:

• List of add-on tools for TPlanner : TPlanner add-on utilities
• Use custom TPlannerItem classes in descendent TPlanner class with this example
• Make TPlanner scriptable with TPlannerScript and TatPascalScripter
• Use customizable Pascal scripts as item alarms with TAlarmScript and TatPascalScripter
• Sample for configuring and triggering an alarm
• Additional sample application showing drag & drop interoperability with TDBTodoList
• Import or export Planner items to Google Calendar or Windows Live Calendar with TPlannerGCalendarExchange and TPlannerLiveCalendarExchange

TMS planning components take you to any platform: Windows & web applications

 

Day mode view

Month mode view

Multi day / resource view

Horizontal view with custom draw handler

Planner shapes and sidebar view

Sample applications

Demo folder	Description
Demo1	Overview demo : non DB aware Planner with horizontal & vertical day mode + month mode
Demo2	Overview demo : DB aware master Planner in daymode with slave Planner reflecting automatic changes in database in planner view (BDE)
Demo3	Demo showing HTML forms usage in non DB-aware Planner
Demo4	Demo showing popup event editors and event shapes in Planner
Demo5	Demo showing HTML forms usage in DB-aware Planner
Demo6	Demo showing various user interface events in Planner
Demo7	Demo showing custom time axis usage in Planner
Demo8	Demo showing inter Planner drag & drop
Demo9	Demo showing a simple Planner alarm handler
Demo10	Demo showing disjunct selection in Planner and multiple event creation on disjunct selected timeslots
Demo11	Demo showing drag & drop between Planner and PlannerWaitList
Demo12	Demo showing drag & drop between normal Planner items and all-day Planner events in header
Demo13	Demo showing custom draw tools for custom Planner event drawing and popup event editors
Demo14	Demo showing multimonth mode with PositionProps based selection control
Demo15	Demo showing Planner - Outlook import / export
Demo16	Overview demo DB-aware Planner for Access (ADO)
Demo17	Overview demo DB-aware Planner for Apollo
Demo18	Overview demo DB-aware Planner for DBIsam
Demo19	Overview demo DB-aware Planner for Interbase
Demo20	Demo showing how to setup 2 full linked items in the Planner
Demo21	Demo showing how to prevent creating overlapped events with a DB-aware planner
Demo22	Demo showing a planner with a custom TPlannerItem class
Demo23	Demo showing a TDBPlannerMonthView
Demo24	Demo showing drag & drop between TPlannerWaitList and TPlannerMonthView
Demo25	Demo showing a custom TMyMonthPlannerView with a custom TMyMonthPlannerItem
Demo26	Demo showing a multiresource Planner with resource database table
Demo27	Demo showing TDBPlanner's built-in recurrency support
Demo28	Demo showing a full SQL command based DB-aware DBPlanner implementation
Demo29	Demo showing custom printing from the Planner
Demo30	Demo showing performance of the Planner creating 1200 events
Demo31	Demo showing performance of the DBPlanner with 1200 events / 200 resources
...	You have an interesting suggestion for a new demo to show a Planner, PlannerWaitList, PlannerMonthView feature,  let us know, we'll add it here !