Resources Calendar

[#1]

Some users, for example conference centres and training companies, set up Meeting rooms as resources so that you can pick a free meeting room when you schedule a meeting.

Could we not have a Resources Calendar to make it easy to see which meeting rooms are booked on which day? Or, may be some additional filters similat to "Users" to show or hide Resources in the calendar as required.

Jeff

[#2]

When you schedule the activity, try clicking Availability after selecting some resources... they will show

Regards,
Mike Lazarus
ACT! Evangelist
GL Computing, Australia

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[#3]

Very true. I just thought it would be useful to be able to see what resources were scheduled in calendar format without having to schedule something or click on a scheduled activity.

[#4]

But how do you report on what resources have been used by whom so that you can charge them accordingly?

Can an ACT! report do this?

[#5]

David,

Unfortunately, the resources don't get tracked in the History. 

To create a report to charge, you'd need to do something on the closed Activities in Excel or Crystal or maybe Stonefield... and (to add some complexity) if the users sometimes change the duration in the History to show how much time was spent, it would also need to get the matching history and make the adjustments.

Regards,
Mike Lazarus
ACT! Evangelist
GL Computing, Australia

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[#6]

Thanks Mike.  That's very helpful and I will test your idea.

I think the tracking of resources in Histories has already been identified as an important missing function/report.

Regards,

David Shaw