A few little updates have been made in October in response to your requests and suggestions!

All changes are available on the cloud service now.

You can now create multiple sets of periods for your rooms!

Each set called a Schedule, and each room group can operate on its own different schedule.

This highly-requested feature lets your separate your different types of bookable resources from each other and let users book them at different times from the rest of them.

For example, your IT rooms can run on the school’s timetabled periods, and your community facilities or meeting rooms can run on an hourly schedule.

The new Schedules page replaces the previous Periods page, and it is now quicker and easier to manage periods.

Once you’ve set up your schedules and their periods, you can specify a schedule for each room group using the Schedules tab within the Session.

You can read more about it in the new documentation area, linked below.

You can now organise your rooms into groups! This makes them easier to manage and improves the Bookings experience.

You can also change the order that rooms groups are displayed in.

This is currently an opt-in feature. To turn it on, head over to Setup > Settings, scroll down to 'Experimental features', tick 'Room Groups', then Save.

Rooms Management

In Setup > Rooms, a new 'Groups' item on the menu lets you manage your groups.

You can drag-and-drop the green arrows icon to change the order of rooms and groups.

Bookings

The Bookings page has also been updated to accommodate Groups, and the date picker has been improved to better convey multi-week timetables.