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The Week View menu item page displays a complete overview of the dynamical LOFAR schedule. The user can quickly monitor the order and current status of different SUs along with their respective details. Note that the view is filtered, i.e. is only exposed the SUs relevant for the user science projects.
Starting at the top left, the user can see details such as current data and current time in UTC and LST. Next it shows the currently week that is being displayed by TMSS (which shows a range of 10 days). The week can be changed by clicking the calendar icon right next to the yyy-mm-dd display. Next to that is also another way to change the displayed week (the arrows next to the text Week) to scroll a week forwards or backwards. To the right of that a green arrow icon can be found which will reset any zoom-ins and display current time/week if clicked. Next are the zoom-in/out functions. The user can select to what view the user wants to zoom-in/out to (e.g. 12 hours makes the view zoom into a 12 hour view of the selected day in the calendar). All these above mentioned tools are useful for navigating the week view of TMSS.
Then comes the actual calendar view itself. The week view shows tasks and scheduled blocks at the level of scheduling units. At the very top of the calendar there are small boxes which serve as a legend to the display below.
The scheduler starts with the current displayed week and current day, followed by a view of of 24 hrs in 1 hour blocks in UTC time and LST time. Below this view is another small legend on the left that shows in yellow, orange and grey the time slots for Sunrise, Sunset and Night respectively. These colours are displayed behind the SU/Tasks in the week view on the background.
In this week view the user sees 10 days at a time (at the standard zoom view) that are listed vertically. This way the user can see what is scheduled for a full 24 hr period per day for 10 days at a time. There are several blocks with different colours to be seen that change depending on which observations are scheduled. For more information the user can hover over the block of interest to gain more detailed overview for the observation/task in a tool-tip. The black blocks often represent maintenance of specific stations and how long they last, this listed as Not Available (NA).
Timeline (View)
The timeline view is at first very similar to the Week View in terms of legends and header layout. But the main difference here is that instead of dates being vertically displayed and time being horizontally displayed, the timeline view has the dates and time on the horizontal axis, and the pointings on the vertical axis, giving a different overview. Here the user can also select to show only SU, only Tasks or both and group them as such. It also allows to toggling between Sky View and Station View (all accessible from the very top of the page)
At the far right of the title at the top of the page, there is an indication whether the dynamic and the fixed time scheduling rules are on or off; the corresponding letters (D and F) will be green if the corresponding mode is enabled, red if disabled. The button that follows in the same row is for enabling or disabling the dynamic and fixed time scheduling functionality. Further to its right is the refresh button, and the options button, allowing to add reservations, system issues or SUs.
Below the title bar, there is the settings section, split in three sub-modules: Filter, Navigation and Zoom. The user can filter the view according to on-sky duration, filter on reservation reasons and SU status as well as project status. The Navigation sub-section allows for selecting a week of interest (by using the calendar input field), or search for a SU using its ID. The two buttons at the bottom of this section allow for scrolling +/- 7 days from the current view. The user can reset to the current week by clicking on the button next to the calendar input field. The Zoom sub-section can be used to set the desired span to be zoomed over, using the Span drop-down menu, and select the time to zoom at via the 'Set Time' input field. Using the 'Time steps' drop down one can change the scale of the UTC/approximate LST bar below the settings section. The '+' and '-' icons can be used to zoom in or out interactively by clicking them, and the '< >' arrows fro moving left or right.
To the left of the Filters sub-section is the 'Show Legend' vertical button which will open/close the slider containing the legend explaining the color / hatch scheme of the week view slots.
Below the Filters section is the time slider displaying the UTC and the approximate LST.
Below the time slider is the section which contains the week view. It has a tabular grid background layout; the first column displays the date and day of each row, as well as the week number. The other columns can be re-scaled in width (as mentioned above) and represent time increments; their total number as well as the time span shown are determined by the settings selected in the zoom filter section.
The SUs are represented as blocks overlaid onto the grid with their color indicating their status (yellow - observing, blue - scheduled etc. as outlined in the legend) and the containing text showing a few details: the project a SU belongs to, its ID and duration in hours. There are also blocks representing various system reservations. When the user hovers with the mouse pointer over a particular scheduling unit, a pop-up window appears listing the SU ID as well as an overview of its details. If a user clicks on a scheduling unit, a window appears to the right of the week view containing a more extensive listing of the SU as well as its associated tasks. In the top right corner of that window there are additional controls: to go to the SU view for that SU, cancel it, unpin its data as well as a button to close the details window. The week view also displays a fixed vertical bar marking the current UTC time as well as a blue vertical bar moving with the mouse pointer to indicate its UTC position. The exact value of the pointed UTC can be read off in the first column to the left. The user can also scroll the week view up, down or left, right using the mouse or the keyboard arrow keys.
Basic Project Administration
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