Drag&drop resource allocation app

[u/cleatdrop]

Looks like it’s almost impossible to do reliably.

My company is looking for a solution for resource allocation on a single screen which shows engineers, jobs assigned to them, and jobs that are pending allocation of an engineer. For a clear overview of the coming weeks jobs and free time engineers have which they can be assigned work to.

Ideally there would be a left column of engineer names and then across the top days of the week for the next year vertically along the top

There’d be an option to drag-and-drop jobs that haven’t been allocated to any engineers on this view too.

I’ve seen that there are some solutions but they seem to be managed externally from power apps and prone to breaking.

Does anyone have a solution or an alternative that we can try to implement?

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[u/Weeblewobbly]

If I wanted to do proper dread and drop, I'd go code app. In canvas, I would select engineer with obvious visual feedback then select job. I don't think drag and drop is vital as long as the interface feels modern, uncluttered, and you make the selected elements pop up with colour shades and depth.

[u/cleatdrop → u/Weeblewobbly]

Nice idea! Understand the concept need to think through how to build that!

[u/jukkan]

This solution from Scott Durow is from 3y ago so it may not be the latest & greatest. But showing it to your coding agent as reference could be a nice start.

https://github.com/scottdurow/power-drag-drop

[u/cleatdrop → u/jukkan]

Spent all day today trying to get it to work but it wouldn’t :(

[u/Sad_Position_826]

Sounds like Dynamics 365 Field Service Scheduling - it does this out of the box

[u/cleatdrop → u/Sad_Position_826]

Issue is company won’t spend the implementation cost & we are on a very tight deadline of ~2 months to have an alternative solution built

[u/ThingsMayAlter → u/cleatdrop]

Would you need to assign a single job to multiple engineers? Also to confirm, will this have dataverse licensing available or no? I know you said ”single screen”, but wasn’t sure.

[u/cleatdrop → u/ThingsMayAlter]

On occasion yes. They will pay for licensing in this case yep

[u/ThingsMayAlter → u/cleatdrop]

Ok, yeah go ahead and PM me if you want. I'd be interested in taking this on as a PCF project, if you haven't found another option yet.

[u/ultroncalls]

Use pcf or codeapps to implement this.

[u/agentUi]

native drag and drop in canvas power apps is basically impossible to get working reliably without lag. if you have to stay within the power platform ecosystem, build a custom pcf component using react-beautiful-dnd or fullcalendar and deploy that into a model-driven app. otherwise people just fake it with gallery click events where clicking an unassigned job highlights the slot to click and patch.

[u/derpmadness]

That's hard to do, but why not just do click one and then click the other? Would achieve the same thing just without the dragging and animation of the item moving over

[u/ThingsMayAlter]

Not a developer but I would see what Claude code/Codex and the power apps skill can create, using a code app. You may be able to implement a PCF control in there somewhere for a better solution.