Adding Meeting Attendance to the Summary panel

[Andrew Truckle]

I have an idea for making it easier to update the Meeting Attendance. See what you think:

The idea is that we add to new fields to the Summary panel, like this:

• Midweek Meeting
  • Meeting Attendance
    • In Person
    • Online
• Weekend Meeting
  • Meeting Attendance
    • In Person
    • Online

We could also add read-only Total rows.

You would be able to directly type the the new values in the edit boxes. And, we could possibly add an Update button at the bottom to save the updated counts to the database.

What do you think about this idea? 💡

[Fahd Touma]

I think it would be nice to have it

[Andrew Truckle]

Hi Fahd

I think it would be nice to have it

Thanks for the feedback. 👍 Two other brothers have expressed an interest in this feature too.

Andrew

[Andrew Truckle]

Here is an update for you:

• Controls have been added for both meetings
• Click into the controls to activate the spinner. The maximum value is 300 and you can also type a value.
• It reads in the current values for the Weekend Meeting

It does not save the changes to the database yet. And, it will require changes to the assignment history database. We have reached the moment when we must expose the midweek meeting date in the history node. Otherwise we can't easily find the current attendance record. What this will mean is that you will have to open your MWB database and save then, updating your history, to get the new records. Then the new system will be able to work. But I have not coded this yet.

[Andrew Truckle]

I have made some progress with this feature and it is now functional. 🤗

We needed to introduce two new prompts. What do you think about the wording?

[Andrew Truckle]

I have opted for these:

•   You have unsaved changes to meeting attendance. Save before closing? 
•   You have unsaved changes to meeting attendance. Save before switching weeks?  

[Andrew Truckle]

Here is a temporary beta download link for version 26.3.7:

http://publictalksoftware.co.uk/downloads/beta/MeetSchedAssistSetup_x64_beta_26-03-07_v01.exe

Please remember to make a backup of your settings.

Andrew

[Fahd Touma]

I have downloaded the EXE file attached to your message, after installing and when loading the app I received the message: Out of Memory

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KtusJcs4zY5YjKAjssAWe_-MYNWs57hm/view?usp=drive_link

[Fahd Touma]

When I updated the history, the error was fixed

Thank you for your support

[Andrew Truckle]

>  When I updated the history, the error was fixed

Correct. I meant to remind you that the history needs upgrading for the system to work properly. So you need to open all relevant MWB files and save them again, to update the history.

[Andrew Truckle]

Here is another temporary beta download link for version 26.3.7:

http://publictalksoftware.co.uk/downloads/beta/MeetSchedAssistSetup_x64_beta_26-03-07_v02.exe

The software will now display a friendly reminder if you navigate to a week that has incomplete assignment history:

• Clicking Don't show this message next time will supress the popup. This is useful for:
  • Those who only use the Assignments Editor
  • or for those who are not interested in maintaining the meeting attendance.
• Clicking Find out more will display additional information:

[Andrew Truckle]

Updated help topic:

https://github.com/ajtruckle/meeting-schedule-assistant-support/wiki/msa-week-overview#updating-meeting-attendance