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INTRODUCTION
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Welcome to ResSched™
ResSched makes it easier and more effective for businesses, health and educational institutions, or other organizations to schedule their resources. If your organization schedules equipment, space, people or other resources by the hour, fraction of an hour, or day, ResSched can help. Spend less effort scheduling, while getting better use of your organization's resources.
ResSched is offered in three editions, Standard, Corporate Local, and Corporate Wide Area.
ResSched Standard Edition is a versatile and effective scheduling tool for smaller organizations (maximum of 5 update access users using a local area network. It provides all the functionality needed to make, view and print schedules.
ResSched Corporate Editions have all the versatility of the Standard Edition with several additional features that allow them to integrate with other business processes and systems in your organization. Corporate Local uses direct file access that is suitable for local area networks. Corporate Wide Area uses client/server access suitable for wide area networks, access through the Internet, or local networks that are overburdened or unreliable. Because both options use the same data files, you can switch between local and client/server access at any time.
-------------- Features
Among ResSched's many features are:
Advanced Repeat Scheduling
ResSched offers a wide variety of options for scheduling repeat bookings. It even handles bookings that are repeated irregularly.
Conflict Checking
ResSched checks every booking for conflicts with other bookings for any of the involved resources. You can also set ResSched to check for bookings on that are weekends, outside regular work times, on any holidays and other special periods you have designated, or that cause double booking of clients. System Administrators can set ResSched to disallow all conflicts, or accept conflicts if confirmed by the user
Resources can be grouped together for easy scheduling and monitoring. You can group resources as teams (different types of resources required for a booking), as classes (all resources of the same type), and any other way you want. You can also create meta groups to filter your schedules by multiple criteria.
Graphical and Text Schedules
ResSched offers a wide variety of graphical schedule formats so you can see at a glance what is booked when, and what is available. Text schedule lets you include detailed booking information on screen, on paper, or in a pdf. Day, week, month, quarter, year, and user defined periods are all available.
ResSched can schedule several units of an inventoried resource, instead of having to identify each unit individually.
Scheduled and Actual Times
You have the option of recording actual booking time, as well as scheduled times.
Use Your Own Terms
Use your own terms as labels for resources, bookings, clients, and categories.
Resource Administration
You have complete flexibility to determine which users can book or view which resources. ResSched also lets you give selected users the authority to administer access to resources without giving them the more powerful access of a system administrator.
Additional Corporate Edition features include:
Wide Area Network
You have the option of using a wide area network version of ResSched instead of the local access version. The wide area version offers greater performance over large or busy networks, even over the Internet, but it requires a little more work to setup and administer. Both the local access and wide area versions are included with your license and they use the same data files so you can change versions at any time.
Schedules on Web Site
Post schedules to your web site automatically.
ODBC Connectivity
Use your own reporting and analysis tools like Crystal Reports® and Microsoft Excel® or Access®
Utilization Analysis
View and print utilization statistics by resource, resource group or client.
Invoicing
Issue invoices to your clients for resources used.
MS Word-based Text Schedules and Reports
Use editable Microsoft Word templates to print text schedules and reports.
Data Import
Import client and resource data from your other systems into ResSched.
----------- First Use
ResSched initially creates a user name of 'FIRST USER' with a password of 'FIRST PASS' . This user name has the highest level of access (System Administrator). Use it create the first users - particularly the System Administrators - for ResSched. You should delete the 'FIRST USER' ID before ResSched is released for general use, but not before at least one other System Administrator ID has been entered and tested.
-------------------------- Most Recent Version
The most recent version of ResSched is always available from our Web site at:
---------- Support
We accept phone and e-mail support requests.
Madrigal Soft Tools 1290 Broad St., #201 Victoria, B.C. Canada, V8W 2A5
-------------------------------------------------------------- Windows and Microsoft Word are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. ResSched is a trademark of Madrigal Soft Tools Inc.
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