House Rule Sets
When I come to think about 'house rules' I miss a feature that allows to orchestrate them with a feature I'd like to name 'House Rule Set', e.g. Study Time, Leisure Time, Holiday, Project XYZ or Travel.
Requirements summary
- Provide the switch 'House Rule Set' with a name and the values active and inactive. Each 'House Rule Set' consists of the known house rule categories (Time-, Web-, Search Supervision, ..., see Define house rules using Android).
- Other House Rule Sets should use switches that allow to 'Inherit House Rule Set' for each house rule category.
- The 'Inherit House Rule Set' allows to select among the active 'House Rule Sets'.
- A 'House Rule Set' can not be deleted or inactivated while it is inherited on an other 'House Rule Set'.
- The user can provide further definitions using the known house rule category values.
- The house rule categories values are considered superseding definitions if the 'Inherit House Rule Set' is not used.
- Time Supervision should be extended with a calendar that allows activation of a 'House Rule Set' depending on from and to dates and the switch 'Use Calendar' active/inactive.
- Provide the ability to activate a 'House Rule Set' on the fly for a specific time period (select form a drop down list)
- If multiple 'House Rule Sets' fire at the same time then excluding rules govern over allowing rules.
Sample House Rule Sets
Study Time (default)
2 hours/day total daily allowance from 08:00 - 20:30 h.
Calendar definitions are not used.
Block all web-pages except allowed 5 categories and 20 manually entered web-pages that are needed for common school studies.
Leisure Time
1 hours/day from 18:00 - 20:30 h. [within the 2 hours/total day allowance given in 'Study Time']
Calendar definitions are not used.
Block all web-pages except allowed 10 categories and 50 manually entered web-pages.
Holiday
3 hours/day from 08:00 - 21:00 h. [Superseding, inheritance is not used]
Calendar: Effective from 06.03.2018 to 13.03.2018, 04-04.07.2018, 10.07.2018-10.08.2018.
Block all web-pages except allowed 10 categories and 60 manually entered web-pages. [Inherited from Leisure Time, extende with 10 manually entered web-pages]
Project XYZ
2,5 hours/day total daily allowance from 08:00 - 20:30 h. [Superseding, inheritance is not used]
Calendar definitions are not used.
Block all web-pages except allowed 5 categories and 30 manually entered web-pages that are needed for common school studies. [Inherited from 'Study Time', and then extended with 10 manually entered web-pages taht relate to Project XYZ]
Travel
No Time restriction. [Superseding, inheritance is not used]
Calendar: Effective from 05.03.2018 to 05.03.2018, 10.03.2018-11.03.2018.
Block all web-pages except allowed 10 categories and 50 manually entered web-pages. [Inherit from 'Leisure Time']
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