[David]

Not sure if this is the correct place to ask this, but what they hey.

I am thinking of writing an appointment scheduler that:

1) Allows a room to have appointments
2) Each room can be configured to be available some days (M-F) and not others (holidays, weekends) as well as certain times (7 am thru 5 pm for example)
3) Each appointment can be in increments of 15 or 30 minutes, configurable

I know that is a lot, but my first hurdle seems to be the most difficult because that more or less dicates my path. So I am trying to think of what an appointment is:

public class Appointment {
DateTime StartDate
DateTime EndDate
String appointmentTime
User scheduler
User roomMananger
String meetingName
}

public class Room {
List<Appointment> appts
String roomName
int defaultMtgIncrement
DateTime defaultStartTime
DateTime defaultEndTime
ArrayList holidays
ArrayList recurringUnavailableDays
}

So, I guess my question is this: is my initial approach workable or is there a better way. I have looked around and naturally what I am looking for isn’t quite what is out there. I would really love to hear any feedback or comments on this

[Riyad Kalla]

sonoerin,

Your “DateTime” object will have both the date and the timestamp in it, so you probably don’t need Start/End & appointmentTime… also you might do a startTime and a duration instead of Start/End…

also might want to add a meetingDescription incase the roomManager wants to review and just sees a name of “Meeting” and goes “what the hell KIND of meeitng?!?!”

also Room looks fine… you just need to define what a holiday is, unless a holiday implicitly blocks out an entire day, then you just need a List of Dates or something, same wth recurringUnavailableDays.

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