I would love to be able to track the attendance of DJs. I would like DJs to be able to say wether they can make this weeks show, if they can no change to schedule. If they cant, it makes to default (archives or whatever) and adds that show to a list of shows needing cover. Other DJs should then be able to select a show if they want to cover it and then the change made to the schedule indicating the temp change. I would also like to be able to store a history of shows, who playied, who covered, who missed, who just didnt turn up.

I think it would be a great feature what does everyone else think?

Kind Regards
Niall

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tim.plunkett
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This is the number one requested feature by DJs at my station.

I was messing around with this within the Currently Playing block to no avail.

Allowing a DJ to denote that they will not be doing their show at a future time seems complicated. But a method for switching the current show shouldn't be that difficult, should it?

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drewish commented

I think it'd be a good feature. I'm not sure what the best way to implement it would be though. At KPSU we leased transmitter time from another school and they would preempt our Friday programming to broadcast basketball games so the archive really needed to reflect that but couldn't. I'd had some plans at one point for changing around the station module to have two views a forward looking schedule that was what you expected to happen, and a log/archive that was what had actually been aired.

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niallhatton commented

I was thinking more of a stations manager overview. So a copy of the schedule with green highlights for those programs which are planned to go ahead as normal, red for a program looking to be cancelled as normal DJ ill ect.. and no cover, or yellow for not normal DJ but another DJ has claimed the show.

Then the changes be made to the public schedule automatically as and when the DJs flag as not available/covering ect. If each program is an individual item, record or whatever, im guessing each program can have a simple flag for availabilty for show in question, and somehow link to the DJs profiles.

A page for shows needing cover would be simple to create and a simple notification to specific roles i.e "DJs" to alert them to the page when shows need cover.

And last but not least some simple reports, so at a glance can see who has not turned up over the last X amount of weeks/shows ect ect and of all time as well :D

I have some problems with not being able to be there 24/7 show to automate and link cover and attendence in would be the cheery on the cake for me with this module

I know that seems like a lot of work but if enough people would like this, even if the maintainer wouldnt use the features maybe we could put some money in a kitty :D

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tim.plunkett
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I would love for their to be a system similar to what niallhatton described.

In the meantime, I came up with a workable system for our station.

First, I created an empty program called "Covered by", which happened to have an nid of 4202.

Then, using automatic nodetitles and tokens, I set the automatic nodetitle for playlists to the following:
[field_station_program-title-raw] <?php if ($node->field_station_program['0']['nid']==4202): ?> [author-name-raw] <?php endif; ?> on [field_station_playlist_date-ddd] [field_station_playlist_date-m]/[field_station_playlist_date-d]/[field_station_playlist_date-yy]

If the program selected is "Covered by", it appends the authors name.

Hacky, sure, but at least made our playlist listing a little more clear.