[bromcom] Bromcom Equipment Booking System

[CHiLL]

We are rolling out Bromcom over summer and have access to our test instance, before it goes live. I see that it has a booking system and I'd like it to replace our HAP (Home Access Plus) system. After some testing, I've noticed a couple of things that would be a deal breaker, which HAP does but it appears Bromcom doesn't.

 

1. Auto-approved/first come first served bookings. We have a number of resources available to book and we'd like staff just to be able to book them without the need for approval by an admin. Is this possible?
   
2. If a resource is booked, how can another member of staff see this? Ideally some form of calendar view, where staff can quickly see if the resources are free for a specific period/time would be ideal
   
3. Timings - I have set the times that items can be booked to correspond with our lesson timings - but can we not just have it listed as Period 1, Period 2, etc? Instead of staff having to select specific start and finish times?
   
4. Hiding department specific resources from everyone else, so only that department can see and book their departmental resources
   

 

I know it's probably asking a lot and we'll likely stick with HAP - but I wanted to put the questions out there, since Bromcom is new to me and I may have missed some options.

[Bromcom_Support_2]

We are rolling out Bromcom over summer and have access to our test instance, before it goes live. I see that it has a booking system and I'd like it to replace our HAP (Home Access Plus) system. After some testing, I've noticed a couple of things that would be a deal breaker, which HAP does but it appears Bromcom doesn't.

 

1. Auto-approved/first come first served bookings. We have a number of resources available to book and we'd like staff just to be able to book them without the need for approval by an admin. Is this possible?
   
2. If a resource is booked, how can another member of staff see this? Ideally some form of calendar view, where staff can quickly see if the resources are free for a specific period/time would be ideal
   
3. Timings - I have set the times that items can be booked to correspond with our lesson timings - but can we not just have it listed as Period 1, Period 2, etc? Instead of staff having to select specific start and finish times?
   
4. Hiding department specific resources from everyone else, so only that department can see and book their departmental resources
   

 

I know it's probably asking a lot and we'll likely stick with HAP - but I wanted to put the questions out there, since Bromcom is new to me and I may have missed some options.

 

Hi Chill

 

Thank you for posting this query, you can read guidance on managing the equipment register for your school in this guide https://docs.bromcom.com/knowledge-base/how-to-manage-the-equipment-register/

Once equipment has been created in the register then staff can book on from the School Diary, please see this guide for configuring the Diary Module in Bromcom https://docs.bromcom.com/knowledge-base/how-to-configure-the-diary/

 

Kind Regards

Bromcom Training

[CHiLL]

Hi Chill

 

Thank you for posting this query, you can read guidance on managing the equipment register for your school in this guide https://docs.bromcom.com/knowledge-base/how-to-manage-the-equipment-register/

Once equipment has been created in the register then staff can book on from the School Diary, please see this guide for configuring the Diary Module in Bromcom https://docs.bromcom.com/knowledge-base/how-to-configure-the-diary/

 

Kind Regards

Bromcom Training

Hi Bromcom Training,

 

I had already looked through that documentation and set up a few test resources to book. This is how I came to have these questions, as I want to know if it is possible to achieve what I asked.

[Bromcom_Support_2]

Hi Bromcom Training,

 

I had already looked through that documentation and set up a few test resources to book. This is how I came to have these questions, as I want to know if it is possible to achieve what I asked.

 

Hi Chill, thank you for reading the documentation. Regarding the questions raised;

 

 

1. Auto-approved/first come first served bookings. We have a number of resources available to book and we'd like staff just to be able to book them without the need for approval by an admin. Is this possible?
   
2. If a resource is booked, how can another member of staff see this? Ideally some form of calendar view, where staff can quickly see if the resources are free for a specific period/time would be ideal
   
3. Timings - I have set the times that items can be booked to correspond with our lesson timings - but can we not just have it listed as Period 1, Period 2, etc? Instead of staff having to select specific start and finish times?
   
4. Hiding department specific resources from everyone else, so only that department can see and book their departmental resources
   

 

1.Auto-approve isn't currently possible for equipment booking requests

2. You could give a role access to the individual view on equipment booking requests from config>Set Up>Roles and Permissions. Choose the role and click edit and from within Diary give access to individual view

3. At the moment it is set up for time as appose to period

4. Again this isnt currently possible to define who can see the equipment

 

Kind Regards

Bromcom Training

[supportman]

Hi Chill, thank you for reading the documentation. Regarding the questions raised;

 

 

1. Auto-approved/first come first served bookings. We have a number of resources available to book and we'd like staff just to be able to book them without the need for approval by an admin. Is this possible?
   
2. If a resource is booked, how can another member of staff see this? Ideally some form of calendar view, where staff can quickly see if the resources are free for a specific period/time would be ideal
   
3. Timings - I have set the times that items can be booked to correspond with our lesson timings - but can we not just have it listed as Period 1, Period 2, etc? Instead of staff having to select specific start and finish times?
   
4. Hiding department specific resources from everyone else, so only that department can see and book their departmental resources
   

 

1.Auto-approve isn't currently possible for equipment booking requests

2. You could give a role access to the individual view on equipment booking requests from config>Set Up>Roles and Permissions. Choose the role and click edit and from within Diary give access to individual view

3. At the moment it is set up for time as appose to period

4. Again this isnt currently possible to define who can see the equipment

I'm currently looking at this as well for using laptop trollies next year.

 

Auto Approve and booking by period are really a must for us to be able to use this feature.

@HuseyinGuryel any chance of these in the future?

 

I added to the ideas system:

Auto-approve resource bookings | Bromcom Ideas Portal (bromcomcloud.com)

Periods in resource booking | Bromcom Ideas Portal (bromcomcloud.com)

[Bromcom_Hus]

I'm currently looking at this as well for using laptop trollies next year.

 

Auto Approve and booking by period are really a must for us to be able to use this feature.

@HuseyinGuryel any chance of these in the future?

 

I added to the ideas system:

Auto-approve resource bookings | Bromcom Ideas Portal (bromcomcloud.com)

Periods in resource booking | Bromcom Ideas Portal (bromcomcloud.com)

 

Hi Ya, This is something I will check-out end let you know with more specific date, but currently it looks this will be ready for the new academic year.