Webdev/SeatingChart

Some General Questions

Doing some preliminary research for the upcoming seating chart app. Just looking for feedback, comments. Sorry if many/all of this has been covered prior to my arrival. Just trying to get up to speed on this one before I start work on it.

Goal is to evolve this page into a sort of requirements doc for this.

Proposal

Component I : Floorplan editor

• Display an image of the floor plan in a Web interface.
• User can assign landmarks (seats/desks) on the image by simply clicking on a point

Questions?

• do we even need to define 'seats'  Is it okay to just have emp icons on the image of a floor plan
• where do we persist this info

Component II : Assign Emp to Seat (landmark)

• In wed interface display the image with 'landmarks' layer
• user can click a seat and 'assign' an emp to the seat
  • could also remove an emp (and place them elsewhere)

Questions?

• where do we persist this info

Component III : Confluence of The above with the Moz phonebook

• Seating chart location becomes an ldap field displayed on a phonebook record
• clicking the link takes you to the floorplan image with emp's seat in focus
• in on the "view the seating chart, we enable URI like this

    .../seating/skeen@mozilla.com
    we would not need to add any fields to Ldap