I work in an industry where the start date of projects can change daily, which, in turn, affects what team can or cannot perform the work. There is a lot of shifting in our schedule up till the projects actually start, which makes scheduling complicated.
The way the company currently manages this issue, is it uses google calendar. Each crew is assigned a "row" on an hour slot, and jobs are placed on that "crew row" horizontally and duplicated however many days the project is assigned. When a scheduling issue arises, events in GCal can be dragged and moved (individually anyway, but they can). In looking into REI3 as an alternative solution to many of my companies issues, it seems the Gantt chart may be the closest application to give the scheduling functionality that I'm looking for? But I could be wrong. Are there other applications that could mimic this behavior?
I've been experimenting, and I have my primary Gantt chart set up so that my teams are in the first column. When a new project comes through, I would give it a start date and set the number of days for the project to take. But if that project changes dates, and causes a cascade of changes through the future schedule, there's no simple way to reassign the project task to a new set of dates and team. Would it be possible to add a click and drag functionality?
That way, it would mimic what the company currently has in place. When a scheduling conflict arises, they could easily move that task to a new team on a different day, and shuffle a few other tasks around if affected. Clicking and dragging them around would prevent the need to meticulously click every task affected by the change, and the gantt chart would show every project assigned and upcoming very clearly.
I have never in my life run into another company that has ever used Google calendar like this before to do their scheduling in this way, and I'm not sure if REI3 could offer such an alternative. But I figured I would request this functionality and check in with the community before I give up and just force this company to do things in a different and inconvenient way.
I'm extremely new to REI3 and relational databases in general, so any patience you have is greatly appreciated. Can provide more info if it helps.
