list teachers as resource

[Zhang Weiwu]

Hello.
For highly dynamic use cases it is not fixed which teacher teaches which lessons.

In this case the teacher has to be treated as a resource because they are to be booked for lessons.

We thought about including teachers in the attendence information to record who teaches which lesson, but this information is useless when trying to find out which teacher is available to train a certain lesson. They had to be used like resources.

So a function to map a user group to a type of resource would be very helpful. In this way we could map user group "teachers" as a resource type "teachers", and select them during booking resources.

[Zhang Weiwu (zhangweiwu)]

Right now we re-create entry in resource for every teacher. When a teacher quitted training contract and replaced by another (happens freuqently), that the teacher as Person is moved to "former teachers" group, the teacher as a Resource is deleted from list of resources. Is this workaround OK and won't break something?

[Tom Hoffman (tom-hoffman)]

Sounds safe to me. By the way, we're hoping the April release will include configurable states for persons, so you will be able to designate current and former teachers through that mechanism as well.

[Zhang Weiwu (zhangweiwu)]

thanks for the feedback. Then I don't use "former teachers" group.