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[#5330] Kronolith as a Resource Booking System
Summary Kronolith as a Resource Booking System
Queue Kronolith
Queue Version HEAD
Type Enhancement
State No Feedback
Priority 1. Low
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Requester Alastair.Brown (at) hgu (dot) mrc (dot) ac (dot) uk
Created 05/04/2007 (6635 days ago)
Due
Updated 11/09/2008 (6080 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved 11/09/2008 (6080 days ago)
Milestone Kronolith 3.0
Patch No

History
11/09/2008 02:39:00 AM Chuck Hagenbuch State ⇒ No Feedback
 
10/25/2007 05:13:12 AM Chuck Hagenbuch Comment #4
State ⇒ Stalled
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Haven't heard anything from these folks in a while, unfortunately.
05/07/2007 08:59:45 AM Alastair (dot) Brown (at) hgu (dot) mrc (dot) ac (dot) uk Comment #3 Reply to this comment
Some developers are currently working on specing out and implementing
a full resource-management system for Kronolith. It's a bit more
involved than using the Category or Location fields, but I suggest
you use Location for now. I'll leave this ticket around to track the
feature.
Thanks for the prompt reply. I will look forward to the full resource 
tracking system in due course. Using Location has the same problem as 
using Category - it is not shown on an event  other than in the pop-up 
- so it is difficult to see which rooms are free/booked without a lot 
of  "mouse-overing" (and of course a print-out has no pop-ups). Using 
Title will be fine as a stop-gap measure, but maybe having an option 
of showing Category and/or Location directly on events (not via the 
pop-up) could be useful anyway. Thanks again.
05/04/2007 03:32:34 PM Chuck Hagenbuch Comment #2
State ⇒ Accepted
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Some developers are currently working on specing out and implementing 
a full resource-management system for Kronolith. It's a bit more 
involved than using the Category or Location fields, but I suggest you 
use Location for now. I'll leave this ticket around to track the 
feature.
05/04/2007 11:06:28 AM Alastair (dot) Brown (at) hgu (dot) mrc (dot) ac (dot) uk Comment #1
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
Type ⇒ Enhancement
Summary ⇒ Kronolith as a Resource Booking System
Queue ⇒ Kronolith
State ⇒ New
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It seems to me that Kronolith has all the features necessary to be 
used as a resource booking system for e.g. meeting rooms, microscopes, 
etc. I have set up a test calendar assigning each of our meeting rooms 
to a category, then share the calendar for everyone to see when rooms 
are free/booked. The only problem is that the categories (e.g. Meeting 
Room 1, Meeting Room 2, Seminar Room, etc.) are not shown in text 
format on each "event" on screen. I can distinguish categories by my 
colour set up, but other users who see the shared calendar would have 
to set up the same categories and assign colours, which is not 
practical with many users (printing the calendar can lose colour 
information anyway). Alternatively, the meeting room name has to be 
entered as the "Title" of the event, but it would be much easier to 
select from a drop-down list of categories. Could display of the 
category name for each event be made an option on a per-calendar 
basis? The "Title" of each event could then be the name of the person 
who has booked the resource or whatever. I think that would solve the 
problem.



BTW, I tried setting up a separate calendar for each room, but then it 
is difficult to compare the availabiltiy of all rooms at one glance, 
without having to switch on a number of calendars (and possibly switch 
off others to avoid an overly cluttered display).



And thanks for a great system - it is much appreciated here at the 
Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh.

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