NI Week T-6 Days

NI Week is one day closer. I was impressed by the National Instruments NI Week auto schedule helper, even though it didn't easily have everything I wanted.

You have to be logged in and registered for the auto chedule to work, but here's a brief synopsis of how it works. You log in and go to the session catalog. You click on the link that allows you to pick your interests. You can view and pick your sessions along technical lines like DAQmx, or Hands On sessions, or all the sessions. Once figure out how you want to look at the sessions, you you can pick the sessions you're interested in. You just go down the list and pick and the label changes to "interested".

Once you've selected everything you're interested in, you click "auto scheduler". It will set up your schedule and will allow you to resolve your conflicts. The auto scheduler goes through each time slot and lets you know what sessions you expressed interest that overlap each other. From there you pick which which one you want to schedule for that time slot. If a session is scheduled for multiple times, it will let you know and allow you to move that session to another time. Of course, the 2nd time a session is given may have a conflict, too.

Your whole schedule can be set up in this manner. Later, there is an option to manually change your schedule. The scheduler will let you know when you pick a session that conflicts with another. After that you can then export the schedule to MS Outlook, or in csv format or tabbed format. This allows you to have your schedule in almost any tool to carry around with you.

The one thing I didn't like about NI schedule is it wasn't easy to extract all the session at one time. I had to bring up all the sessions at one time, print that, then go to the next time, and print, etc. It's a bit of a problem but not to bad.

They have a lot of good sessions planned, a lot of potential learning. I can't wait!

Have a great day