How to show members on a reservation in Viewer
This article explains how you can show members directly on a reservation in Viewer. The most common use-case is to show students that are joining a reservation. Where those students are added to the reservation as members to a student group object.
Introduction
This article will focus on the following use-case
- I am a teacher and want to display the students attending my classes
In most cases students are added to a reservation as members to a student group object added to the reservation.
When viewing your schedule in viewer its possible to see the students on a reservation in two ways:
- Show objects members on click
If user clicks on the reservation, user can then click on the student group and display its student members. - Show members on reservations
It's also possible to configure Viewer to fetch the students (as members of a student group object) and present them on the reservation, as if they are an object directly on the reservation.
Show objects members on click
How does it work
User clicks on a reservation to open it up. Then clicks on a student group object which opens up that object and here the members are displayed
When to use
- When users of the schedule most often are not interested in information about what students are on the reservation, as the additional information will clutter the presentation of the schedule.
- Additional loading time is restricted to when a user is interested about the additional information.
How to set it up
The student object and its fields needs to be configured as a searchable type, so that Viewer knows what fields to show for the objects
Objects in reservations are clickable needs to be enabled so that user can click on the student group object. Show object’s members needs to be enabled so that when opening the student group, its members are displayed
Show members on reservations
How does it work
When viewer loads a reservation with a student group object, the students will automatically be loaded and added as objects to the reservation as well. The students can then be presented as any other object on the reservation.
When to use
- When there is a need to know all attendees, often in the text view and for pages where you typically do not load that many reservations at once.
- Loading times will increase since Viewer will have to load a lot more data for every reservation, this should not be enabled by default.
How to set it up
For Show members on reservations Configure object type to load as members and for what object type the members should be loaded, in this example Viewer will, if there is a Student Group object on the reservation, load any Students that are members of the Student group object to the reservation
Once Viewer has the Student objects on the reservation, Viewer needs to know how to present them, this is done by configuring Content -Columns in schedule as for any other objects on the reservation.
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