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Timetables Introduction
There are three kinds of interactive timetable:
- Calendar timetable. This format displays the days on the horizontal axis and the times on the vertical.
- Shifts timetable. This format is useful if your organisation works in shifts or many activities occur at regular times.
- Booking list. This format displays the booking data on the horizontal axis and the dates/times on the vertical.
- Click the timetable of choice and it will open.
- In the example the user has opened the Calendar timetable.
- All three timetables have common functionality and also some specific functionality.
- The common functionality:
- Use the navigation buttons at the top left to go to a next week or next day etc.
- Modify the date at the top left to start viewing the timetable from a given date.
- Use the HTML and PDF buttons to print the overview.
- Open the More options menu to find additional functionality for fine tuning the data in the display and for exporting the timetable in various formats.
- The specific functionality:
- Each timetable has slight differences in the More options menu capabilities.
- Each timetable may have some additional buttons.
Actions before opening a timetable
The previous sections explain two actions you should take before opening an interative timetable:
- Resource selection: enables you to select, for example, which activities you wish to view.
- Date selection: enables you to select how many days or weeks you wish to view and from which start date.
The next sections provide detailed information on how to determine the information to be displayed in the timetable and how to use the interactive functionality.
- Before opening the interactive timetable you can further fine tune the information you want displayed with the following two menus.
- This menu enables you to choose which items of a booking are displayed, for example: the location.
- Filter bookings. This menu enables you determine which types of bookings are displayed, for example: cancelled bookings.
A third menu is only available to planners:
- Manipulate booking.This menu contains a setting that allows conflicts between bookings.
Interactive timetable functionality
In the interactive timetable you can:
- Change the start date using next/previous week/day buttons or start viewing at a specific date.
- Set various booking status values on/off and determine the types of bookings to be displayed (for example cancelled bookings).
- Export the timetable in standard HTML and PDF formats.
- Export the timetable in several more advanced formats such as live feeds for the browser and smartphone.
Advanced export actions
- Export timetable. Here you have a choice of 6 buttons that you can click in order to create a browser link (URL) of this timetable and also to export it to another program in various formats.
Component of WebView[NL] Het gedeelte van de Webber waarmee men roosters kan bekijken.[EN] The Webber component that enables viewing of the timetables.