Timetable Scales

Created by Harrigan Phillips, Modified on Fri, 29 Jul, 2022 at 10:17 AM by Richard Allwood

Timetable scales are used in Databridge to control the visual style of a timetable including:

Start Time e.g. 9:00am
Number of Days to display e.g. Monday - Friday
Column label/sizes e.g. Session 1 (9:00-10:00), Session 2 (10:30-12:00), Lunch (12:00-13:00), etc

There will be at least one timetable scale already included in Databridge which you can modify accordingly. You can if required, add as many additional ones as you want, which helps in creating scales for different user groups in your organisation.

Accessing the Timetable Scales screen

To access Timetable Scales, you need to first navigate to Administration -> Standard Values.

Within the Timetable Management Values section, select Timetable Scales.

On the left hand side of the screen, you will see a list of scales that already exist in Databridge:

Editing a Timetable Scale

To edit a Scale, click on the notepad icon. If you are adding a new one, use the 'Add Scale' button.

This will then display the Scale details on the right hand side. From there, you set the fields as required:

Field Name	Description
Name	The descriptive name of the scale e.g. College, Class 1, 24/7 etc.
Start Day	The weekday you want the scale to start e.g. Monday.
No. of Days	The number of days the scale should show for. If the Start Day was Monday and you entered 4 here, the timetable would only show Monday - Thursday.
Start Time	The start time to show the scale from e.g. 09:00.
No. of Hours	The number of hours the scale will display. For example, if Start Time set to 09:00 and you entered 7 here, the timetable would only show between 09:00-16:00.
Default Scale	Tick this to make this scale the default one shown across the system.

Tip
There can only be one scale selected as the default, however, you can specify the default scale for an individual as well on the Student/Staff screens respectively

Setting the Scale Blocks / Times

Underneath the scale settings, you will see a list of Times. These times are the blocks/columns that will appear on the Timetable and you add/edit/delete these accordingly to match the scale you need.

By default, a block is automatically added for each hour of the day e.g. 00:00, 01:00, 02:00 etc all the way to 23:00. This means by default the scale is broken down into 1 hour blocks, and the label for each block is the same as the time e.g. 08:00.

To change a block, click the notepad icon. This will display the following modal:

From this modal, you can adjust the settings of the block accordingly:

Field	Description
Scale	The start time of the scale. For example we could change this example from 09:00 to 08:45.
Label	Anything entered here will be shown on the label for the block instead of the time. If you enter a label as <Blank>, no label will be shown in the block.
Break Start	A start time of the break (if any) during this block.
Break End	An end time of the break (if any) during this block.

Note: You only need to enter break times if one exists. If you do enter break times, a bar will show on the scale for this block to represent the break.

Modify the blocks as required to create your scale. Here is an example setup:

This would produce a scale that would contain the following blocks:

09:00 - 10:15 - Session 1
10:15 - 10:45 - Tea Break
10:45 - 12:00 - Session 2
12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch
13:00 - 14:20 - Session 3
14:20 - 14:45 - (No Label)
14:45 - 16:00 - Session 4

And here is an example of that on-screen:

Deleting a Timetable Scale

To delete a Scale or a block within it, click on the trashcan icon.