Worldcubeassociation.org: Competition's schedule tab improvements

[viroulep]

In order to keep these separated from the events tab, here is an issue to track the various improvements to the competition's schedule tab that could be made.

• [x] if there is only one room, display this information at the beginning and remove the "room" column. #3336
• [x] wording for dragging #3356
• [ ] duplicating activities (eg: registration)
• [x] if the schedule is available in the website, fill the Delegate report field automatically. (#4021)
• [ ] currently custom activities are not localized. I think we should leave some flexibility to the user in the names, but if they match the English reference name we should definitely use the localized version.
• [x] improve format for time limit (eg: for rounded time limits such as 10:00.00, display 10 min) #3337
• [ ] removing an event/round should remove all activities for this event/round
• [x] create a printer-friendly version of the schedule (eg: pdf view with the competition's info, events, schedule). #4102

[pedrosino]

one suggestion: make the default duration for the custom activities bigger (30 min?)
Now it is just 5 minutes, and in the default view (30 min per row) it's so tiny that we can't drag the border. I had to "zoom in" to 5 minutes per row to change it.

[viroulep]

There is no default duration for the custom activities.
The length of the custom activity is determined by the timeframe in the calendar that a user has drag and selected.
If you do a single click it considers this as selecting the smallest increment of time (which is 5 minutes).
Changing this to 30 min would mean you could only increase or decrease an activity by 30 min, which would not be convenient.

[pedrosino]

Ah, I didn't know I had to drag it. That makes sense, but I would probably not guess it. Perhaps changing the text to "click and drag ..." would help.

[pedrosino]

A few more:
1 - Make the public view a little "taller". Now it uses 30 min per row, which gets very narrow when the round lasts for 15 min for example:

2 - Make the events colors different (alternating shades of blue, or with another color). That makes it easier to tell them apart.

3 - Make 12/24 time format customisable. I think I saw something about it being related to the user's local, but I'd prefer to use 24 format. We usually don't use 1:00 for 1PM

[jfly]

3 - Make 12/24 time format customisable. I think I saw something about it being related to the user's local, but I'd prefer to use 24 format. We usually don't use 1:00 for 1PM

I think this just means you need to define the time_format key for pt.yml: https://github.com/jfly/worldcubeassociation.org/blob/23e81d55d268242c50462f80bb217fd2cade9157/WcaOnRails/config/locales/en.yml#L177-L178.

[pedrosino]

I mean make it a choice of who's making the schedule, not attached to the user viewing it later.

[jfly]

I don't see why it would make sense for the schedule creator to force 24h vs 12h on the user. In my mind, that's like the a website creator saying "well, I'm used to English, so this website should always be in English".

[pedrosino]

I guess you're right. It's not like the user can change it too.

[Jambrose777]

Not a direct schedule improvement, but quality of life with the schedules:

Would it be possible to auto link the schedule in the delegate report and result submission?

[viroulep]

@DanielEgdal I've updated the initial message to include one of the WCAT queries (printer friendly schedule).