Here comes Autumn

As summer takes a bow and slowly ushers in autumn, work on qplanner changes too.

Preview now uses the new website

When I originally released the new website view in June I had to leave some loose ends, previewing planners was one of them.
Previewing planners is an important way to confirm your planner looks how you expect, without having to save it constantly.
Click the Preview button in the bottom left.
And you can set the preview style via the Options dialog, at the bottom of the This planner tab. You'll see a Style drop down, and another for the granularity.
The granularity is now ignored, as you can quickly change that on the preview web page.
Full, Mini, and Mobile will now all display as the default planner view. You can view the mobile view by resizing your browser. Horizontal currently falls back to the default planner view. Classic will show the classic view. And PDF will directly generate a PDF for the planner. Setting granularity to 5 minutes will generate a colour PDF, and 15 minutes is black and white.
I will tidy up the redundant options at a later date.
I do recommend using the preview mode/PDF output if you wish to take advantage of the creator for making a planner for your own personalised school schedule etc.

Collaborative artists

You can now access artist info on each collaborating artist.
When viewing an collaborative artist you will see a list of collaborators, which you can click on. The artist info will update with information on that artist, if available.
Desktop users can directly open information on a collaborator by clicking them in the artist list, that is on the right hand column.

Improved amending planners

Changing a performance's artist, or adding a new performance, via the context menu (right click anywhere on a stage column) now lets you add a new artist directly from the search input.

Bug fixes and improvements

  • Disabled pressing the back button to close popups on mobile (This wasn't working as intended, and polluted the navigation history)
  • The left menu, on desktop, has a slightly different look
  • [Creator] Fixed adjusting the first performance's time
  • [Creator] Fixed adjusting times whilst viewing a single day
  • [Creator] Fixed importing stage times without end times, and the end time column title being moved from the default position

What's coming next

I did say I'd work on weather in the last post, I haven't been enthused enough to do that yet.
I have a list of new things I'd like to support in the creator. Mostly just extra bits of event data that isn't currently supported.