improve usability of assigning a school timetable

[Philipp Schroeder]

Under 'Sections' > 'Schedule'

I find the functionaly on this page counter-intuitive.

It is rather confusing that I need to select a 'term' and 'schema' from the
dropdown menu and press 'choose' button and only then I get to assign my time
slots in the table below (because that table is dynamically changed according
to the selctions above). How do others experience this?

Please see related issue:
"Newly created Sections should have a timetable based on the current term and
default ttschema"
http://issues.schooltool.org/issue293

Suggestion: A quick fix would be to have a heading above the table (I mean the
table with the time slots), that indicates more explicitely that we are
currently looking at the School Timetable for "term so and so" and "Schema such
and such". I realise that this might seem like a duplication of information on
the page, but in the users mind a label is clear indication, while a drop down
menu might be an optional feature - so the user won't immediately associate the
information in the dropdown menu with the table below...

[Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman)]

I think the main point here is that sensible defaults should be pre-selected. The default timetable and the
term with the closest starting date after the current date.

[Gediminas Paulauskas (menesis)]

In 1.4, this was working as suggested - Click on "Schedule" and then select periods.

But in current trunk, one has to click "Add Timetable" before selecting periods. So the interface has changed several times, but this bug still exists in trunk.

[Justas Sadzevičius (justas.sadzevicius)]

First part of this bug is fixed in trunk ("I need to select a 'term' and 'schema'")

Second part - sensible defaults - are work in progress and depend on TT refactoring.

[Justas Sadzevičius (justas.sadzevicius)]

Fixed in the new UI