Phpscheduleit installation

The packaged database scripts make assumptions about your desired database configuration and set default values. Please edit them to suit your environment before running. On a remote host with no database creation privileges If you are installing Booked on a remote host, please follow these steps. These steps assume you are using cPanel and have the ability to create databases via the cPanel tool and phpMyAdmin.

Add a new user with username and password of your choice. This will be the database user and database password set in your Booked config file. Create a new database with whatever name you choose. This will be the name of the database in your Booked config file. Click the 'Add User to Db' button.

Click on the database name that you just created in the left panel. Click the SQL tab at the top of the page. These users are available for testing your installation. You are done. Try to load the application at eg. After the database has been set up you will need to register the account for your application administrator. Navigate to register. The steps for upgrading from a previous version of Booked are very similar to the steps described above in Application Deployment to Server.

The recommended approach is to backup your current Booked files, then upload the new files to the that same location. This prevents any old files from interfering with new ones. If you have any uploaded resource images you will need to copy them from their old location to the new one. An alternative upgrade approach is to overwrite the current Booked files with the new ones.

This approach will not allow you to roll back and will not clear out any obsolete files. The automatic database upgrade is exactly the same as the automatic database install. Please follow the instructions in the Automatic Database Setup section above. Depending on your current version, import the upgrade. A migration from 1. This can be run after the 2. Booked logs multiple levels of information categorized into either application or database logs. To do this, the log4php library is used.

You will then able to add more resources by selecting them and clicking the Done button. To remove additional resources from your reservation, click the More Resources link, deselect the resources you want to remove, and click the Done button. Additional resources will be subject to the same rules as primary resources. For example, this means that if you attempt to create a 2 hour reservation with Resource 1, which has a maximum length of 3 hours and with Resource 2, which has a maximum length of 1 hour, your reservation will be denied.

A reservation can be configured to recur a number of different ways. For all repeat options the Until date is inclusive.

The repeat options allow for flexible recurrence possibilities. For example: Repeat Daily every 2 days will create a reservation every other day for your specified time. Repeat Weekly, every 1 week on Monday, Wednesday, Friday will create a reservation on each of those days every week at your specified time. If you were creating a reservation on , repeating Monthly, every 3 months on the day of month would create a reservation every third month on the 15th.

Since is the third Saturday of January, the same example with the day of week selected would repeat every third month on the third Saturday of that month.

You can either Add Participants or Invite Others when booking a reservation. Adding someone will include them on the reservation and will not send an invitation. The added user will receive an email. Inviting a user will send an invitation email and give the user an option to Accept or Decline the invitation. Accepting an invitation adds the user to the participants list.

Declining an invitation removes the user from the invitees list. Accessories can be thought of as objects used during a reservation. Examples may be projectors or chairs. To add accessories to your reservation, click the Add link to the right of the Accessories title. From there you will be able to select a quantity for each of the available accessories. The quantity available during your reservation time will depend on how many accessories are already reserved.

Application Administrators and Group Administrators can book reservations on behalf of other users by clicking the Change link to the right of the user's name. Application Administrators and Group Administrators can also modify and delete reservations owned by other users. If a reservation is set up to repeat, then a series is created. After you make changes and Update the reservation, you will be asked which instances of the series you want to apply the changes to.

You can apply your changes to the instance that you are viewing Only This Instance and no other instances will be changed.

You can update All Instances to apply the change to every reservation instance that has not yet occurred. You can also apply the change only to Future Instances, which will update all reservation instances including and after the instance you are currently viewing.

Deleting a reservation completely removes it from the schedule. It will no longer be visible anywhere in phpScheduleIt. Similar to updating a reservation, when deleting you can select which instances you want to delete. When viewing or updating a reservation you will see a button to Add to Outlook. If Outlook is installed on your computer then you should be asked to add the meeting.

If it is not installed you will be prompted to download an. This is a standard calendar format. You can use this file to add the reservation to any application that supports the iCalendar file format. Calendars can be published for Schedules, Resources and Users. For this feature to work, the administrator must have configured a subscription key in the config file.

To enable Scheudle and Resource level calendar subscriptions, simply turn subscriptions on when managing the Schedule or Resource. On the right side of the page you will find a link to Allow or Turn Off calendar subscriptions. On the right side of the page, you will find a link to subscribe to the current calendar. Subscribing the a Resource calendar follows the same steps. In most cases, simply clicking the Subscribe to this Calendar link will automatically set up the subscription in your calendar Client.

Open Google Calendar settings. Click the Calendars tab. Click Browse interesting calendars. Click add by URL. Administrators have the ability to configure quota rules based on a variety of criteria. If your reservation would violate any quota, you will be notified and the reservation will be denied. If you are in an Application Administrator role then you will see the Application Management menu item. All administrative tasks can be found here. When installing phpScheduleIt a default schedule will be created with out of the box settings.

From the Schedules menu option you can view and edit attributes of the current schedules. Each schedule must have a layout defined for it. This controls the availability of the resources on that schedule.

Clicking the Change Layout link will bring up the layout editor. Here you can create and change the time slots that are available for reservation and blocked from reservation.

There is no restriction on the slot times, but you must provide slot values for all 24 hours of the day, one per line. Also, the time format must be in 24 hour time.

You can also provide a display label for any or all slots, if you wish. Below the slot configuration windows is a slot creation wizard. Booked is a free open-source web application designed to improve scheduling and manage resource utilization. Resources are scheduled and reserved using a permissions-based calendar, later allowing for modifications to those reservations as needed. The predecessor to Booked was phpScheduleIt.

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