MK-2 Posted February 5, 2007 Posted February 5, 2007 Mano: I've got the same sort of thing, I've asked on the forum if it's possible to implement an access rights thing so that certain people can book certain places etc. Hopefully it can be done as its a great little system.
Mano Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 Yea that would be really cool. Ideally I dont mind staff booking rooms but dont want them booking laptops because they would be mad and have them booked for every lesson or something daft. The other thing I want to implement, not sure if I am on the right forum section here tho, is with this room bookings have an old pc that displays this info along with other stuff like events, staff messages and other stuff. Anyone got any ideas on what I can do, free options always the best ones. Cheers Tony
imullings Posted February 10, 2007 Posted February 10, 2007 I am logging all the requests for the next booking system. Bug fixes for the current version are all I can do at the moment as I am setting up the wonderfull Moodle in the school right now. I am also starting a Moodle version of the booking system but as it is PHP it is a full rewrite. If you are using the booking system please upgrade to the latest version ASAP to stop strange blockbooking behaviour. Thanks for the feedback. Ian Mullings Devizes School ICT Support http://folders.devizes.wilts.sch.uk/download/bookingsystem3/
MkII Posted February 10, 2007 Posted February 10, 2007 Yea that would be really cool. Ideally I dont mind staff booking rooms but dont want them booking laptops because they would be mad and have them booked for every lesson or something daft. The other thing I want to implement, not sure if I am on the right forum section here tho, is with this room bookings have an old pc that displays this info along with other stuff like events, staff messages and other stuff. Anyone got any ideas on what I can do, free options always the best ones. Cheers Tony There are threads on display systems Tony. Search for 'Digital Signage'. We have a home brew system of an old PC hooked up to a 42" plasma and 32" TFT, running powerpoint with a few free plugins so that you can save over the live playing presentation. You can embed web pages in powerpoint. The PC auto logs in and starts the presentation. @imullings that sounds good. I remember there was work on a booking system for moodle - i'd be really interested if you manage to get something sorted.
webman Posted February 10, 2007 Posted February 10, 2007 Well. Classroombookings is here I've let staff loose with it at our place and seems to be going OK at the moment. I'll be setting up a forum on the site shortly for you to direct any feedback/support requests to There's installation documentation included with the download which I'll be expanding on in the near future.
jrubinstein Posted February 11, 2007 Posted February 11, 2007 I've had a system in our school for a while. I use exported tables from SIMS so that the computer rooms' timetable is accurate (or as accurate as possible). Staff use an asp form to look for the rooms available for a given date. The SIMS info includes the no of computers so they can see what is available. I'd be happ to put together documentation for it if anyone is interested. Best wishes Jay Rubinstein
webman Posted February 11, 2007 Posted February 11, 2007 Which method did you use to export the SIMS data, Jay?
timbo343 Posted February 11, 2007 Posted February 11, 2007 webman, looks a pretty good piece of software.. i havent downloaded it but is it capable of doing multiple rooms? will there be an intergration with AD? and will there be certain groups so staff have limited rights and administrators can change or delete is the room is unavaliable? If so looks like it will do for us, and looks really easy to use.
webman Posted February 11, 2007 Posted February 11, 2007 Hi Tim, Yes, you can have as many rooms as you want. I will look into AD integration as it will be beneficial to us. At the moment a user is either a teacher or an administrator. Room owners can delete bookings in their room, and booking creators can delete their own bookings. It goes without saying that administrators can delete any.
timbo343 Posted February 11, 2007 Posted February 11, 2007 Nice one, ive been doing a bit a looking a round, and there are a limited amount of products that link in with LDAP, plus you have to give the creators a design to work to as some can be so specific, but well done, im sure that a lot of people shall be using it.
ChrisH Posted February 11, 2007 Posted February 11, 2007 Maybe not total AD integration to begin with but how about it being able to identify the current user and checking they are a member of the allowed group?
jrubinstein Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 We use a form of AD integration, a user-defined field in SIMS which contains the user's login name, since this is also their email address we can use this in a number of places. At the moment we can manually enter student logins but not for staff.I run a script which looks at the Global Address List and put the information into my user defined field for bulk new users and staff. We put the info about the number of computers in a room into the max numbers box, it's not used for other purposes so my asp page doesn't look other rooms. I replicate a number of tables out of the SIMS database every night into an separate SQL database on another server, on that SQL database I can do a number of tasks including the room booking, emailling groups of students and the teachers of a student. The only tripup we get is when an update needs replication taken off the SIMS database, but if I export the replication as a script it isn't too much trouble.
jrubinstein Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 We use a form of AD integration, a user-defined field in SIMS which contains the user's login name, since this is also their email address we can use this in a number of places. At the moment we can manually enter student logins but not for staff.I run a script which looks at the Global Address List and put the information into my user defined field for bulk new users and staff. We put the info about the number of computers in a room into the max numbers box, it's not used for other purposes so my asp page doesn't look other rooms. I replicate a number of tables out of the SIMS database every night into an separate SQL database on another server, on that SQL database I can do a number of tasks including the room booking, emailling groups of students and the teachers of a student. The only tripup we get is when an update needs replication taken off the SIMS database, but if I export the replication as a script it isn't too much trouble.
nickje Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Hi webman Thanks for sharing this software. I'm sure this is going to help a lot of schools!! I just spotted one thing that didn't work for me... Deleting the install.php file using the warning link you provide didn't work. It was omitting the 'index.php' file name in the middle of the URL. I'm not sure if this might be caused by the fact that I am using xampp on my local machine to test it. *shrug* Thankyou once again though! You've saved me a lot of headaches with this Nick ps. It also says 'My profie' in the control panel instead of 'My profile'
webman Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Thanks Nick, well spotted on the typo The deleting of it should work if the web server has the right permissions to. All links should work regardless of the index.php as it is just Mod_Rewrite to remove it from URLs.
nickje Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Hehe, you're right! Once I realised what a plonker I was and went through the installation instructions correctly it all works well I've also noticed that when I went to add a room when I hadn't defined any custom fields it threw up a few PHP errors - but still added the room regardless. Is that just me continuing the plonker trend? Nick
webman Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 No no, it'll be me coding with a lack of/too much caffeine
plexer Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 Wbeman: dude congrats glad to see it's finally out of the stalls. I'll be installing it on friday when I'm in. Ben
danIT Posted February 14, 2007 Author Posted February 14, 2007 Would just like to say Nice job, much better than my original post regarding the mash-up of the access/.asp front end i did a few months back. We shall defo be switching to this! Nice one cyrill!
thom Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 This looks really good. I was going to set up MRBS but never got around to it but this looks a bit simpler. Why did you create your own as opposed to using MRBS? Also, could you give some recommended hardware specs. I am not to confident setting this up so if you could (or know about) a simple guide to setting up all the pre-reqs (Linux/Apache/PHP/mySql) that would really help all us *nix virgins
Jake Posted April 20, 2007 Posted April 20, 2007 @Craig - We are looking at getting a new room booking system, primarily due to the system that we are currently using cannot provide us with reports on user usage of rooms. It can give us a report of room usage by department, but not by user. I downloaded Classroombookings (havent installed yet), noticed that it says report generating not yet complete. Are the reports partially done? or still to be done? The rest of it looks not only ideal from a technical standpoint, but also from an aesthetic standpoint
webman Posted April 20, 2007 Posted April 20, 2007 Hi Jake. Yes reports are in the making - it's just a matter of pulling the existing booking data out and putting it in a human-readable format.
Jake Posted April 20, 2007 Posted April 20, 2007 Thanks..will go ahead and install it and give it a spin. Could I request a report function to chart bookings by user as well as department
webman Posted April 20, 2007 Posted April 20, 2007 Thanks..will go ahead and install it and give it a spin. Could I request a report function to chart bookings by user as well as department Thanks, that's the plan
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