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Hi all!
I'm new to the newsgroup and not really much of a Windows user, but I have
an Outlook question for my wife. She is involved in supervising about 100
people at 20 different sites. They are trying to set up a master calendar or
a set of calendars in Outlook 2003/Exchange to keep track of where all these
people are. There are 2 other people involved in their supervision and about
5 people who need to know the schedules of all these people. Currently only
the supervisors use Outlook 2003/Exchange; the 100 people just get a copy of
the schedule, but they may all be added on to the Outlook system in the next
few months. They are trying to figure out the best way to implement this.
They have considered a single calendar, but this seems unwieldy as about 60
people would be on the calendar for any given day. They have also considered
20 calendars, one for each site. Or one big calendar with a different
category for each site. I've also seen some information on the Group
scheduling feature. Is there an accessory program for Outlook that might this
sort of thing? A better program?
They currently use an Excel spreadsheet that the main scheduler person works
up, but this is obviously difficult to share and hard for other people to
have input on. Although it does make for a nice table: people down the left,
days of the month across the top, site location in each cell. This way each
employee knows where they should be on each day.
Anyone else face a similar situation or have any suggestions?
kman
I'm new to the newsgroup and not really much of a Windows user, but I have
an Outlook question for my wife. She is involved in supervising about 100
people at 20 different sites. They are trying to set up a master calendar or
a set of calendars in Outlook 2003/Exchange to keep track of where all these
people are. There are 2 other people involved in their supervision and about
5 people who need to know the schedules of all these people. Currently only
the supervisors use Outlook 2003/Exchange; the 100 people just get a copy of
the schedule, but they may all be added on to the Outlook system in the next
few months. They are trying to figure out the best way to implement this.
They have considered a single calendar, but this seems unwieldy as about 60
people would be on the calendar for any given day. They have also considered
20 calendars, one for each site. Or one big calendar with a different
category for each site. I've also seen some information on the Group
scheduling feature. Is there an accessory program for Outlook that might this
sort of thing? A better program?
They currently use an Excel spreadsheet that the main scheduler person works
up, but this is obviously difficult to share and hard for other people to
have input on. Although it does make for a nice table: people down the left,
days of the month across the top, site location in each cell. This way each
employee knows where they should be on each day.
Anyone else face a similar situation or have any suggestions?
kman