ResSched Web displays schedules graphically as well as in text. These graphical schedules provide users with quick view of bookings and available time slots at a glance. For authorized user, placing the cursor over a booking, will display the major details of the booking in a pop up, and clicking on the text link shown will bring up the complete booking details for view or editing.
To display graphical schedules , select Schedules>Graphical Schedules from the menu and enter the settings required to generate the schedule. The options change as you make your choices so move slowly between the entries.
Use Time Lime Line Layout |
Bookings will be display in a horizontal time line format. Unchecked, each bookings will be various vertical format depending on the other options
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Display For |
Select whether you want to display a schedule for a resource, client, resource group or category and then use the lookup button choose the one you want.
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Limit to primary resource only |
Many of the schedules list resources used by the bookings. If you want to limit the display to primary resources, turn on this option,
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Period to display |
The available periods you can display change depending on your previous choices.
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Date |
Select the day you want to display using the look up calendar, or for week or month displays, pick a date in that week or month.
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Text source |
Where there is enough space, ResSched Web will display a link for for each booking. You can choose the booking name, client, primary resource, or category as text for that link,
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Color source |
The bookings are displayed as colored boxes. You can choose no color, or the booking, client, primary resource, category, or booking status as the source of those colors. If you choose no color, the boxes will be shown as pale gray.
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Time interval |
Sets the time interval used for day and some week displays.
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Inclue inactive |
For month calendar views, you can choose to exclude inactive bookings. Inactive bookings are included in all other views because their absence would indicate their time slot is available. |
Time Line Schedules
A time line schedule displays bookings horizontally across time with a separate row for each resource included. For client or category schedules, you can limit the resources shown to just those that are primary resources of a booking. For resource groups, bookings for all the resources of the group are shown.
The duration of the booking determines the size of the boxes. Where the boxes are big enough, there is a link with descriptive text. Users can click on the link to view the booking details and, if authorized, change or delete delete the booking.
Timelines cover periods of a single day to a month. If the System Settings have bookings able to cross midnight, there is also a quarter (3 months) view. Because of the low resolution of the quarter view, bookings that take less than half a normal workday are not shown.
Vertical Schedules
All day and week graphical schedules that are not time line displays, are vertical scans with time running from top to bottom. Resources or days of the week run across the top depending on the type of scan. Unless your browser window is too small, all the vertical scans include a descriptive link in the cell, entry or box representing the booking.
Month Calendars
Bookings can also be shown in a standard month day cell calendar.Bookings are listed in simple chronological order for each day.