2 Week timetable and booking system.

[rheibel]

Does the Booking System plug-in support a 2 week timetable? I don't know if its the Azure AD/SSO or something else but have been unable to import the SIMS booking system report in 10.6 (never tried in the older versions of HAP). Planed to use the StaticBookings.xml but it does not appear to support a 2 week timetable. I don't want to have to enter everything in Bookings.xml calculating the date of each lesson. If anyone has this working would you mind sharing your StaticBookings.xml layout mine curently is attached If its not possible does anyone recommend a alternative to roombookingsytem.co.uk witch we currently use (been told to cut the cost) for a 2 week timetable that will do rooms and equipment bookings?

StaticBookingsXML.txt

[beneal]

Yes, you can use a two-week timetable. It works off numbering the days up to 10 (so week 1 is days 1-5 and week 2 is days 6-10).

 

p.s. also make sure you have 2 week timetable turned on in setup.

Edited December 14, 2018 by beneal

[Peter_TVS]

There's a Two Week Timetable switch on /HAP/setup.aspx under the Booking System tab.

 

To import the data from SIMS, you'll need to first import the SIMS report and run it. (I also had to edit the report in Design report to filter it by our IT rooms to get any data out of it.) In the resulting XML file, you should be able to see which format your two week timetable periods are in. (We used to be on a two-week timetable, but are not any longer. Ours were in the format 2Wed:1, where 2 was the week number and 1 the period.)

 

I found that the Lessons as configured in /HAP/setup.aspx under Booking System needed to have a space between P and the period number for the import to match to the right day and period. For example: P 1, P 2.

 

With this all set up, you can copy the XML file from the SIMS report into App_Data, name it sims-bookings.xmland press the Import SIMS button on /hap/bookingsystem/Admin/, Static Bookings tab. HAP seems to magically know the format of the 2Wed:1 style strings and assign the lessons to the correct week and period for that room.

 

It's been a while since I did this, and we now are no longer on a 2-week timetable, but it did work for us for several years once we understood the process!

[rheibel]

Did not think to try P 1 rather than P1. or Day 6-10. Will report back once I have a chance to try it out (Tuesday).

[rheibel]

Just to say Thankyou again. I had chance to try and the import now works fine. who would have thought P1 and P 1 would make all the difference.

 

Now my final issue is the SIMS report shows awed:1 not 1wed:1 as we work on week A and B but, find and replace works well enough for now.