This report will be covering further development of the Realtime-Updated Dashboard made by two students for Flex Applications in VT2017. The task now is to integrate the Dashboard with Outlook calendar. A theoretical deepening into the General Data Protection Regulation was made due to recent development in the European Union. This was used to set strict guidelines for design, consent and security of the application.   The application is a back-end service written mostly in C#, however some TypeScript language was used with Angular 2 framework along with LESS and HTML5. The application is developed as a stand-alone project as the Realtime-Updated Dashboard is now live in the system and it would pose a security risk for Flex which was a great opportunity to study and learn more about ASP.NET MVC model along with TypeScript, Angular2, LESS and HTML5. Integrating with Outlook calendar was just the first step, more calendars will be added in time. The main point of the application is to give the Realtime-Updated Dashboard added value and prove/show integration with Outlook calendar was possible.

Kommunikation är en grundpelare för alla verksamheter och företag där möten är ett av de primära sätten för att samtala och fatta gemensamma beslut. Problemet som kan uppstå i samband med att en bokning av ett möte ska utföras är att försöka finna en tid då alla önskade mötesdeltagare kan delta vilket kan vara en tröttsam och tidskrävande process om många deltagare ska ingå i mötet. Detta är ett bekymmer som uppstår hos IT-företaget Easit som fokuserar på mjukvarulösningar åt företag och myndigheter. Arbetet syftar till att undersöka de anställdas uppfattning kring mötesbokningar, vilka verktyg de använder i dagsläget för att boka möten och slutligen formulera och implementera en byggsten i form av en målfunktion för att förhindra de problem som beskrivs i undersökningen. Konstruktionen sker i form av en webbapplikation skapat med främst programmeringsspråket Java men också olika ramverk och verktyg för att förenkla processen i att uppnå en dynamisk applikation. Applikationen upprättar koppling till Microsoft Outlooks API där data sedan extraheras från kalendrar baserat på delvis modifierad data från en anställds schema på företaget. Målfunktionen tillämpas på den data som extraherats för villkor som användaren fyllt i, på det vis beräkna ett slags betyg för potentiella mötesbokningar. Målfunktionen som är en optimerad algoritm jämförs med en greedy-algoritm för att presentera den optimerade algoritmens potential för problembeskrivningen. Den fortsatta utvecklingen utförs genom att formulera bivillkor vars syfte är att bredda den optimerade algoritmens flexibilitet och djup. Resultatet för arbetet är en grund för optimering av scheman med potential för fortsatt utveckling. / Communication is a foundation pillar for all businesses and companies where meetings is one of the primary ways to converse and take collective decisions. The problem which can arise in the procedure of booking a meeting is trying to find a suitable time for every desired participant which could be a tedious and time-consuming task if many participants are to be included in the meeting. This is an issue that has risen at an IT company named Easit which focuses on software solutions for other companies and authorities. The aim of the project is to investigate the employees opinion of this issue, the tools they use today for the process of booking a meeting and finally formulate and implement a building block in the form of a target function which will be used to prevent the problems that are stated in the investigation. The construction is to be performed in the form of a web application created with the programming language Java together with different frameworks and tools to simplify the process of achieving a dynamic application. The application establishes a connection to the Microsoft Outlook API which will then be used to extract data from different calendars based of partly modified data from an employee’s schedule. The target function will be applied to the data extracted dependent on the conditions stated by the user and based on that; a kind of grade will be applied to every possible meeting time found. The target function which is an optimized algorithm is compared to a greedy-algorithm to present the optimized functions potential for the problem specified. If future work is to be done on the project, the main focus should lie on formulating additional constraints and parameters which can widen the optimized algorithm flexibility and depth. The result for this project is a foundation for optimizing schedules depending on multiple calendars together with potential for future work.

The increase in connectivity and use of “smart” devices offers companies new possibilities to improve their efficiency by using digitalization. For example, booking of meeting rooms have gone from using a paper calendar to electronic booking. To enable both digital remote booking, as well as being able to book a room directly (as with a paper calendar) this project has developed a room manager system. The room manager is a device that provides a quick and intuitive way for employees to handle conference room booking. The project was started on behalf of the company ÅF, who would like to optimize their use of conference rooms.  The result was a fully functional touchscreen device built using a Raspberry Pi. The room manager integrates successfully with the existing calendar system used at ÅF and meets all the requirements set by ÅF. The device will be used to determine if a room manager system is worth investing in and may be used as a foundation for continued development.