Summary | Kronolith as a Resource Booking System |
Queue | Kronolith |
Queue Version | HEAD |
Type | Enhancement |
State | No Feedback |
Priority | 1. Low |
Owners | |
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 |
State ⇒ Stalled
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.
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.
State ⇒ Accepted
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.
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
Type ⇒ Enhancement
Summary ⇒ Kronolith as a Resource Booking System
Queue ⇒ Kronolith
State ⇒ New
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.