New student/speaker chooser

Another one joining the club: https://www.theocbase.net/support-forum/post/9863-previous-student-selector.html

I ended up going back to version 2022.01. I could not get my head around how the new "Chooser" works

That said, thank you developers for all the hard work you put into this.

I know an awful lot of work has gone into overhauling the assignment dialogue, and that it wasn't done in just weeks or even months. However bitter and sad, at the end of the day, the customer is always right. And the customer even sees smileys (but he is not happy). The customer feels the old inconveniences  were smaller. The biggest of them in my personal opinion simply caused by losing A for Assistant a few years back, everyone getting an S for Student instead. Somehow it couldn't come back. 

Anyway, I can (I have to) work with the new assignment dialogue: I fiddle with the parameters until I see in my list what I want to see, since much of it is already in my head. Then for a different type of assignment I change them again until the list matches what is in my mind. I get the feeling I am fooling, rather than using, the system. Earlier I shared some experiences and tips that somewhat work for me, and hope they help.

I add here, that the timeline offers some useful info, and if you want to know the history of a specific person, no longer visible hovering over the individual in the list, this can be found under his person details. None of this has changed.

Hi,

I also find it very difficult to understand the logic of the new functions. Is there at least a guide somewhere as to what the individual symbols actually mean? What do the squares mean? What do the squares with dashes mean? What do the smilies mean? All unresolved Questions to which I have not yet found an answer. Many thanks for your help.

Matthias ;-)

Hi to all developers,

I also would really appreciate to have at least an option to restore the old chooser. In my opinion, the previous list is much more intuitive, features a very easy way for sorting and displays a perfect history of the assignments.
Please think about it!

Many thanks,
Philipp

I also agree with Andreas. It's very difficult now, and it's hard to see everything on my laptop (13"). I have to check previous weeks to verify that I haven't chosen a student that had a recent assignment.

Another thing that takes a lot more time is that when using a trackpad to scroll in the list, it picks a student very often while scrolling, which rearrange the list when opening it again. I'm using a MacBook Pro 2017.

Hi!

Same observations as Andreas, I am finding it very difficult to understand how it works. Now I take a very long time to do the assignments while before it was so simple to understand who was next.

In any case I really appreciate the work that went into it but honestly Im hoping to get a more simple approach in new releases.

Thank you for the nice explanation Marc, it helped a bit.

Regards