Re: [MRBS-general] Various...

[Richard R. <ric...@po...>]

Perhaps, rather than using the MRBS framework, you (as in the =20
hypothetical, could be anybody!) write a script to insert x number of =20=

appointments directly into the DB so that the skeleton appointments =20
are a 'one off' event, and if/when they get overwritten, there's no =20
repeat function to break?
Basically, it would be a one-off operation to populate the DB with =20
overwritable appointment blocks....

On 25 May 2005, at 16:18, Tony Molloy wrote:

> Thanks Richard,
>
> Yes, I've tried simply using the absence of a booking, but it has =20
> proved
> to have some shortcomings. Our specialist advisers are only =20
> available to
> take appointments at certain times of the day, which also vary by day.
> As we have a large pool of volunteers who would initially deal with
> people and where needed make appointments to see the specialists, =20
> we had
> an initial problem of advisers making appointments for times when =20
> no-one
> was available, they couldn't do that with the paper system as the =20
> boxes
> were blocked out.  We've tried the education route to get them to only
> make bookings at the appropriate times but when you've got a =20
> combination
> of any 6 out of 60 people at either session on any day, it becomes
> difficult to ensure consistency.  Putting in skeleton appointments for
> when a slot is available and telling them they can only use one of the
> free skeletons solves this problem quite nicely and they can find free
> slots using the search facility, but I need to find a way around me
> having to enter a month's worth of 20-odd individual slots per day
> manually!
>
> Tony
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Roberts [mailto:ric...@po...]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:34 PM
>> To: Tony Molloy
>> Cc: mrb...@li...
>> Subject: Re: [MRBS-general] Various...
>>
>>
>> Not sure how you'd go about a skeleton appointment- surely the
>> absence of a booking would do the job? Not knowing your system, I
>> suspect that you've already taken that into account!
>>
>>  =46rom my limited experience, adding fields appears to be very easy-
>> I've found that you just need to edit edit_entry(?), view_entry(?)
>> and adjust your report files.
>>
>> The simplest way, I found, was to find a field that is almost what
>> you want, then copy & paste and adjust according taste...
>> I'll drop my examples up when I get time a little bit later
>> Unless someone else can come up with a more comprehensible
>> explanation in the meantime!
>> On 25 May 2005, at 11:49, Tony Molloy wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've recently installed MRBS to manage appointment bookings for our
>>> interview rooms.  It's working very well and everyone's pleased
>>> with it,
>>> but I've been asked if it could be enhanced a bit.  What's
>>>
>> wanted is;
>>
>>>
>>> 1 We need to "reserve" time slots to show when an
>>>
>> appointment slot is
>>
>>> free, as we can only deal with a fixed number of slots for each room
>>> during certain periods each day.  I've tried to do this by
>>>
>> creating a
>>
>>> skeleton appointment for each available time slot and then using the
>>> weekly repeat to fill the calendar, for each individual
>>>
>> room, but that
>>
>>> causes a problem when someone edits a slot to put the real
>>>
>> details in
>>
>>> and takes off the repeat, as any subsequent skeletons then
>>>
>> disappear.
>>
>>> What I'd like to be able to do is to 'repeat fill' any
>>>
>> particular time
>>
>>> slot for a room with a skeleton appointment, between two dates, but
>>> without it becoming a series, i.e. each individual
>>>
>> 'reserved' slot can
>>
>>> then be updated independently.
>>>
>>> 2 Only having the Description to enter details in is a bit limiting,
>>> I've been asked if we can have additional individual fields on the
>>> entry
>>> form and for some of them to be mandatory.  I'm very much a PHP
>>> novice,
>>> but I think that means I'm looking at modifying edit_entry
>>>
>> and related
>>
>>> forms and also adding additional database fields.  Is there a
>>> clever PHP
>>> editor somewhere that might help me with redesigning the forms,
>>> etc?, or
>>> is this too simplistic a view?
>>>
>>> 3 We'd also like to be able to print a confirmation letter for an
>>> appointment, as a print of the entry form isn't suitable.
>>>
>> I'm not too
>>
>>> sure how to go about this.
>>>
>>> We're running 1.2.1 on SME Server
>>>
>>> Any advice/pointers to example code would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Tony
>>>
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