Room/Facility Scheduler Database

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Craig Tunks

I am trying to find a template that I had found once
before (probably 2 years ago) on Microsofts web site that
allowed you to schedule room usage for conference rooms
or other resources and facilities. I have looked all
through the MS site and can not find it. If anyone knows
of something that could work or knows of the database I
refer to I would greatly appreciate the headsup. Thanks.
Craig
 
There's a great product out there from Dean Evans & Associates.
It's a commercial app developed in Microsoft Access and it's the
best scheduler I've seen.

http://www.dea.com
 
If your office use Exchange & Outlook, then you already
got the set of software designed exactly for conference
rooms/resources/equipment bookings/scheduling.

It is not a small small project by any means but if you
set it correctly, OL users can book rooms / resources /
equipment by themselves and get confirmations, etc ...
automatically.

The only problem is to set it up. I set up a system about
4 years ago using Exchange 4 (???) with a W95 work-station
with OL97 acting as "agent" for rooms / resources /
equipment that could decide whether to accept the booking
requests or not and then send the confirmation / refusal
emails to the requester automatically. The system worked
very well. Unfortunately I left the company after and
didn't take the written materials / set-up notes with me.
Thus, I know it can be done (and probably a lot easer with
later versions of Exchange / Outlook) but can't remember
the steps since it was fairly complex.

Perhaps, you should consult and Exchange / Outlook
expert...

Access certainly can be used to build this be beware that
lots of features needed for this sort of applications have
to be built while they are already built in in Exchange.

HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)
 
There is a Resource Scheduler that ships with Access - check in the General
Templates.
 
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