Conference Planning System

Convention Planning System is a program that facilitates the organization of events like conferences, that include attendees, speakers, and organizers. All users must have an account in order to make use of the functionalities of this system. Through use of these accounts, users will be able to interact with a role-specific menu that will allow them to accomplish a lot, including the organization, scheduling and registration of events, as well as the communication between users.

Conference Planning System requires the following to run:

jdk 8

Installation

After cloning this repository, make sure phase1/ConventionPlanningProject/src is marked as the source root.

You may also need to mark the test folder in ConventionPlanningProject as excluded, if the program fails to compile on your first try.

To run the program, run the Main class in the default package of the src folder.

Notes about Program

Added Features

Mandatory

1. Different Types of Events

   A one-speaker event is the same as a "talk" from Phase 1. You can have multi-speaker events, like a panel discussion, and no-speaker events, like a party. Events can last as long as you want. You can measure the duration of an event in hours, or minutes. You get to decide.

2. Canceling Events

   Events can be canceled by at least one organizer.

3. More Users

   At least one more type of user will be included in your program. For example, an Admin user who can delete messages or events with no attendees, or a VIP user who can access VIP-only events.

4. Organizers creating Accounts

   Organizers can also create Speaker accounts, Attendee accounts, and any other type of user accounts that are in your program.

5. Prevention from Exceeding Room Capacity

   Each event has a maximum number of people who can attend it. This amount can be set when the event is created and also changed later, by an organizer. Your program should check the maximum capacity for the room where the event will be held, and prevent the number of attendees from going above the room's capacity.

Optional

1. User Requests

   All users are able to view their requests and its status. They would also be able to add or remove requests. ALl organizers are able view the requests with the option of organizing said requests based on the category or the status. They are also able to update the status of a request once they address it.

2. Enhancing User Messaging Experience

   Provided users with the ability to mark messages as unread.

3. Schedule Formatting

4. Logging in and out

   Users are able to log in and log out without the program terminating.

5. Users can login using their Google account through the OAuth2 standard.
   Note: Users' Google account must be added to Google API Console first.

Improvements Since Phase 1

Seeing as how there weren't any design issues in Phase 1 we were able to add to the program rather than modify these initial design choices. Some issues that were brought up in the evaluation had to do with clarity in terms of naming. We attempted to keep that in mind while throughout this section. One such instance was when the UserRequestCategory was originally named UserRequestType, which is not nearly as clear. We added Javadoc to all public methods, including those that were overridden, to ensure that the functionality of each of these methods were clear.

Testing Help

When creating accounts/events/messages, information that you could use is provided for ease of testing. However, you are free to put anything you want while following the prompts)

1. Create an organizer (role: ORGANIZER, username: organ1, password: P@ssw0rd)

2. log in as organizer, entering in username and password

3. Select option to create a speaker account, and create a speaker account (username: speak1, password: P@ssw0rd)

4. Create a room (roomid:1, start time: 09:00, end time: 17:00)

5. View list of Rooms

6. Schedule Event (title: Coding101, start time: 12:30, end time 13:30, speaker: speak1, roomid: 1)

7. View list of Events

   1. View more information about the event you just created
   2. Sign yourself up for the event

8. View My Events (see the events you've signed up for)

   1. Go back to view list of events menu
   2. view more information again (don't sign up for the event again)
   3. Cancel the event

9. For messaging

   1. Click on the user you would like to message
   2. type the message in the "send message" prompt on the bottom right of the screen (hello there)
   3. To mark a message as unread, click on the message and then click the "Mark Unread" button. Once clicked, this will mark the message as unread and clear the messages column so that you are ready to click on another user to message.

10. Printing a schedule

    1. to print the schedule to a txt file, you can first sort the events in all events, then to print it, click the Schedule button on the bottom, then click the print button. This creates a txt file that can be opened by the user.

Authors

Cameron Fairchild (Me), Petra Fayad, Safa Hussein, Ritvik Juttukonda, Ha Young Kim, Seohyun Park, Tian Sirchich, Johanna Zhang