Calendar Browser is a groupware used for booking all kinds of resources within an organization. The software is totally integrated in Outlook.
Calendar Browser is installed on a file server and in a new public folder or shared mailbox, and only a minimal client installation is needed.
Welcome to the show!Peter KalmströmCEO kalmstrom.com Business Solutions
Introduktion
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Let’s start with the part that the users will see. If they are familiar with Microsoft Outlook they will quickly learn to use Calendar Browser.
To concretize I will talk about booking rooms in this slide show, but anything that is booked within an organization – cars, equipment, personnel – might of course be booked through Calendar Browser. The application can also be used for viewing people’s calendars.
User Interface
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The Calendar Browser buttons in the Calendar ribbon
Show several resource calendars
Calendar Browser is integrated in Outlook
www.kalmstrom.com Calendar Browser works with Microsoft Outlook 2007 and above
Enter date, time and number of seats needed. When the free rooms
are shown you may click New to make an appointment in the
selected one
Click to open a dialog where you can search free resources
Find resource
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Click to see a description
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Each resource can be described with text and
images
Click to open a dialog with a description of the resource
See resource
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Click here to book supplies.
Select a project
The Booking – An appointment
The booking appointment is a normal Outlook appointment ‒
but with some ”extras”.
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Book supplies
Select among the admin
defined supplies
Comment your order here.
Name and date are filled out
automatically
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Group calendars by making several installations.
Each user selects what groups should be shown in her/his Outlook. That way the users only see the groups they really need.
Settings
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Calendar Grouping
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Now I will show you what happens ”behind the scene” – i.e. in the Administrator settings. They are reached by the Manage button or by running the file CBAdmin.exe in the root file folder. Let’s continue!
Settings
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The Admin settings
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Alternatives to be shown
in the Overview.
Double-bookings – Never more!
Uncheck to hide these
buttons
Register here. Then the button
is hidden.
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Configuration
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Add new calendars
The WYSIWYG .html editor makes it easy to create nice
resource descriptions.
Add an image to be shown in the
overview.
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The Resource calendars
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With different colors for different types of projects you get a good
overview.
The word “Project” can be changed to anything
that suits your organization.
”Projects”
By default the projects are saved in Outlook.
If you already have projects in a database,
use that alternative and they are loaded
automatically.
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Specify all supplies that might be needed with the resources, and define the cost for each
item. The currency in the user form will be the one already specified for your system.
Extras
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Specify place settings for the users to select from
Place Settings
The users can choose among the admin
specified place settings when the book supplies
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Here you may specify text to be filled into all new appointments
The template comes up in the new appointments
New Appointment Template
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The Overview tool in Calendar Browser gives a summary of resources and of the scheduling of team members. Open the Overview Tool via the Overview button or by running the file CBOverview.exe in the root file folder.
Hope you are still with me!
Overview
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Click a free time to add a new
appointment/booking.
Timeline view
Click a booked time to see an appointment/booking.
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Week III gives very detailed reports. Right click to Export to Excel.
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Workweek III
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This view gives a list over occupancy and activities of the separate resources
on the date you choose.
All views can be printed
Day List
Click the + signs to see
supplies
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Show appointment
Click once to see the details of the booking.
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The appointments report gives a list over occupancy and activities of the separate
resources.
Supplies for each booking
is listed.
Appointments report
Select the Orders report if you want to filter out
bookings with no supplies.
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Appointments and orders can be studied with the integrated statistics tool, OLAP Reporting Tool. With this report generator you can study resource utilization over a longer period of time, design your own reports and work dynamically with the information (pivoting and drill-down). OLAP Reporting Tool has its own presentation and manual, refer to my website. Here we will just take a quick look at it. Lets go to the last part!
Statistics Tool
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Use the file CBArchive.exe in the root file folder to move old appointments to a database. Then you can study them closely and in many different ways with the statistics tool.
Select period and resources to study.
Archive
The first time you archive
appointments you are asked to select
database.
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The first time you click the file OLAPReporting.exe in the root file folder,
you are presented with this screen. Eventually the Report list will be filled with your custom report templates.
OLAP Reporting Tool – First time
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Graphs can be shown as columns, lines, bars, pies, bubbles … Also
mutliple graphs are possible
Filter and drill in both pivot and graph
All the fields can be dragged and dropped to show data in different ways.
OLAP Reporting Tool – Example
See report description
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Thank you for watching this slide show!
At www.kalmstrom.com you may download the full version of the Calendar Browser and evaluate it for 30 days before you decide if you want to use it.
On the website you will also find the User and Administrator Manuals, the Calendar Browser video demonstrations and information about how to subscribe to Calendar Browser by becoming a Member of kalmstrom.com Community.
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