Design Thoughts - Booking application

[Murphy]

We are currently looking into the development of an application for booking
resources and are researching the available options for recording and
tracking these bookings.

The possibilities we have presently for managing and tracking bookings are:
a) Store bookings in SQL db and code the calendar functionality, showing
existing bookings & availability
b) Interface with Exchange
c) Utilise a 3rd party product

As there may be 1000s of resources that users can book online, such as a
video library, I am not sure of the feasibility of the Exchange option
however I am open to all suggestions.


Thanks

 

[(Pete Cresswell)]

RE/

The possibilities we have presently for managing and tracking bookings are:
a) Store bookings in SQL db and code the calendar functionality, showing
existing bookings & availability
b) Interface with Exchange
c) Utilise a 3rd party product

As there may be 1000s of resources that users can book online, such as a
video library, I am not sure of the feasibility of the Exchange option
however I am open to all suggestions.

Sounds like a bread-and-butter application....I'd expect to find lots of 3rd
party products available that would do 80% of what you want for 10% the cost of
writing an app.

 

[Murphy]

Now that sounds very promising...
Any suggestions on where I could start looking ?

 

[Siegfried Weber]

Now that sounds very promising...
Any suggestions on where I could start looking ?

http://www.swinc.com/erm for example.

 

[Dave Mills [MVP]]

Or if you need something that you can customize, but without the excellent
support that the swinc one comes with, take a look at
http://autoaccept-sink.sourceforge.net/.

- Dave

 

[Andy Webb]

Piling on...

Dave's right - his version offers more ability to get under the hood.

Depending on what the needed functionality is, we might be interested in
adding it to ERM, or might be willing to add it as a custom feature to ERM
as well.

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