QuickSlots v2.0: A web-based timetable management system

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Features

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• Light-Weight: The whole application, including all images,scripts and stylesheets, is only 1.35 MB uncompressed and just 714KB when compressed.

• Fully automated installer: QuickSlots comes with a fully automated installer, meaning that the administrator just has to run the installer and does not have to look into ANY PART OF THE SOURCE CODE AT ALL.

• One-click total system backup and restore: Backup and restore settings and databases, even across different servers, just with a single click.

• Generate ready-to-print timetable image snapshots.

• Support for LDAP authentication.

• Support for updating sections of databases

• Support for preference management of faculty

• Support for defining slot groups and managing them

• Support for Google Agenda management for faculty

• Support for Automated Scheduling of Timetable (conflicts possible)

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                External Libraries and Programs Used

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• jQuery Core: The jQuery Core javascript library (https://jquery.com/)

• jQuery UI: The jQuery UI library (https://jqueryui.com/)

• jQuery UI Touch Punch: Touch Event Support for jQuery UI (http://touchpunch.furf.com/)

• html2canvas.js: Javascript for rendering image PNG for storing

• Chosen.js: Select Box Enhancer for jQuery (http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/)

• PyMySQL (0.7.2): Python Library for connecting to MySQL ()

• Munkres (1.0.7): Python Library for running Hungarian algorithm for scheduling

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                       System Requirements

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• Nginx Web Server: Version 1.8 or higher recommended

• MYSQL Database Engine: Version 5.7 or higher recommended

• PHP Hypertext Preprocessor: Version 5.5 or higher recommended

• Python: Version 2.7.6 or higher recommended

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                Requirements Installation for Scheduler

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To install the packages for running the scheduler, execute

python pip install -r requirements.txt

Getting started with Quickslots in Docker

NOTE: All the following installation instructions are based on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host. Except the Docker installation, all other steps can be exactly used for all Linux distributions.

• Install Docker on Ubuntu
• Install Docker Compose
• Run docker-compose up -d
• composer dependencies need to be installed after the containers are up via (only once):

$ docker exec quickslots_quickslots_1 composer install