In
this tutorial Peter Kalmstrom, CEO of kalmstrom.com Business
Solutions and Microsoft certified SharePoint specialist
and trainer, explains how to build a simple resource booking
system in SharePoint.
Peter's example company has five bookable rooms, and the
staff can order some extra services with each room. To make
this happen, Peter performs the following steps:
Create a Services list app.
Create a calendar app.
Create a,Services??? column in the new calendar.
This column is of the lookup type, and it fetches items
from the "Services" list.
Save the calendar as a template.
Use the template to create the rest of the resources
calendars.
Add all calendars to an Overlay view.
As all calendars are displayed in the same view, users can
quickly have an overview over what resources have been booked
and find free time slots for resources they need.
For
more advanced resource booking in SharePoint, use the kalmstrom.com
Solution
Calendar Browser for SharePoint. Bookings overview,
supplies booking, double booking protection, search, resource
descriptions and many more features.