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<strong>WebToGo</strong> <strong>Userguide</strong> for IDA - Integrated Data Access<br />
<strong>Userguide</strong><br />
IDA – Integrated Data Access<br />
The experience of being always connected<br />
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Table of Contents<br />
IDA User Guide............................................................................................................3<br />
1 The Menu..............................................................................................................3<br />
2 Searching and Statistics.......................................................................................5<br />
3 Lists.....................................................................................................................8<br />
4 Main Forms.........................................................................................................10<br />
5 Special IDA Modules...........................................................................................13<br />
5.1 The Calendar.................................................................................................13<br />
5.2 The Project Plan.............................................................................................16<br />
5.3 The Tree View...............................................................................................18<br />
5.4 Reservations Module......................................................................................20<br />
5.4.1 Calendar Controls....................................................................................22<br />
5.4.2 Reservation Types and Categories..............................................................22<br />
5.5 Absence Calendar..........................................................................................22<br />
5.5.1 Calendar Controls....................................................................................24<br />
5.5.2 Absence Types and Categories..................................................................24<br />
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IDA User Guide<br />
<strong>WebToGo</strong>'s Integrated Data Access is a Web-application to access company data. One of its<br />
greatest strengths is that it can be quickly and easily expanded to cover new Objects. It is<br />
therefore a challenge to write a specific user guide for one IDA implementation. But there is a<br />
lot of generic IDA functionality common to all objects, which is discussed in the first section of<br />
this guide.<br />
The second section will discuss some IDA standard applications with some specific modules.<br />
Again, the details in your implementation might be different.<br />
Finally, most of the visual appearance of IDA can be set as a style for each specific user. So the<br />
icons, colors and fonts might not match the ones you can see.<br />
1 The Menu<br />
When you log into IDA, you will normally see the menu on the left:<br />
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This is your main navigation tool around the application.<br />
1. The logo will bring you back to the page you see after login. This should provide a<br />
sensible overview of your most important tasks, but can be set specifically for each<br />
user.<br />
2. This is your username.<br />
3. The question marks can be found throughout IDA. They contain helpful information and<br />
hints about how to use certain functionalities. Either the question mark is a link and you<br />
can obtain the information by simly clicking on it, or it contains the information in a<br />
tooltip, which will be showing when hovering the mouse above it. Following the link will<br />
open a new page in the current window. The form that was opened at the time you<br />
retrieved the support can be found at the bottom of the page.<br />
4. Clicking will log you off.<br />
5. The Bookmark button : If there is a page in IDA that you would like to view<br />
repeatedly, such as a special statistics report, you can bookmark it, such that you can<br />
access it with a click of a button.<br />
6. This will lead you to the Settings. Under the first tab, the "Team Setings", you have the<br />
possibility to specify how you would like to receive notifications from the system. Email,<br />
IM, SMS and those in combination are the options you can choose from. If you<br />
also have purchased our Instant Messaging solution <strong>WebToGo</strong> InterAct, you can assign<br />
your InterAct user account to your team member entry to be notfied through InterAct.<br />
In addition you may want to specify whether your calendar is showing after login or not.<br />
You can also define the appearance of IDA by setting a style. IDA is currently available<br />
in english and german. Further language support will follow. If you prefer to log on<br />
automatically, check "Remember Login" to be authenticated by a Cookie. Checking<br />
"Buttons" will determine whether you see the action buttons gathered at the top of the<br />
menu right beneath the database selection. These buttons grant access to certain<br />
modules depending on which groups you are assigned to. Action Buttons are explained<br />
in more detail below. You can also change your password by entering your new<br />
password twice in the corresponding fields and saving the data.<br />
Under the tab "Email Settings" you can enter a signature that will be attached to the<br />
end of every e-mail you send through the system. Checking "Quote" takes effect if you<br />
are replying to an e-mail and will add the past conversation to the e-mail you are<br />
currently sending. If you have one or more alternative e-mail adresses, you can add<br />
them here as aliases.<br />
The tab "Support Settings" provides several adjustments regarding customer support.<br />
These settings are only applicable if your purchase of IDA includes the support module.<br />
First you can set up the language used for customer support. Filling out the field "Alias"<br />
will be helpful if you don't want to use your real name sending support e-mails. Another<br />
option that comes in helpful is to specify an e-mail address exclusivly for support emails.<br />
In the field "Truly" you can enter a salutation that will be added automatically to<br />
every support e-mail you send.<br />
7. Database selection: If you have rights to access more than one database through IDA<br />
(such as the system administration database as well as the user database), then these<br />
databases will be listed here for you to select from. They can be listed as icons or in a<br />
dropdown field.<br />
Note that all of the above items will be covered by the system message field, whenever<br />
a system message is sent. System messages are normally sent only once, so a refresh<br />
will bring back these controls.<br />
8. Action buttons: These are buttons that execute actions or lead you to a certain module<br />
independent of the particular entry you are currently looking at in the database. An<br />
example might be your calendar or the project plan.<br />
9. Your bookmarks list: IDA allows you to bookmark selections and pages that you have<br />
opened for faster access. This is particularly useful for complex queries such as the<br />
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number of purchases for a particular product during the last week, where a single click<br />
is easier rather than re-entering all the selection criteria. To bookmark a page, you only<br />
need to click the bookmark icon when you are on the page you wish to revisit regularly.<br />
A new entry will appear under the heading "Bookmarks" in the menu, with a blank field<br />
next to it, where you can enter the name. After having entered and saved the name,<br />
you can visit the bookmark by clicking on it. Alternatively you can delete it again, by<br />
clicking on the delete button next to it. Normal users cannot modify bookmarks.<br />
10.This is the main section of the menu. It contains the objects you have access to, sorted<br />
by the groups you belong to. For each object you can open a search form, by clicking on<br />
the entry itself. Holding the mouse above an item will give you additional information<br />
about the object, if available. If you have permission to add new records, you can click<br />
on the new record icon ( ) to the right of the entry to add your data.<br />
11.Clicking will hide the menu to make additional space on the screen. You can bring it<br />
back by clicking .<br />
12. and allow you move the menu across to the other side of the screen (if there is<br />
other content visible).<br />
2 Searching and Statistics<br />
A typical search page will look like either of these images:<br />
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At the top you see the object you are searching. On the left are a list of possible search criteria<br />
defined by your system administrator. Next to each of these fields is a search operator field<br />
with entries from the list below, depending on the data type of this field. Then there is an input<br />
field where you can enter your search term. And on the far right, there are statistics functions,<br />
if you want to display a statistics graph, rather than searching for entries. These will only<br />
appear if you are in statistics mode. You can toggle from normal to statistics mode, either<br />
clicking on "Show Stats" or "Hide Stats". To do a search, you click on "Go". To do statistics,<br />
you click on "Stats". For some forms, an "e-mail" button might also appear. From this you can<br />
select recipients of a mailing list, if the object you are searching for has an e-mail address field<br />
and your administrator has set it as such.<br />
Here is a list of the search operators:<br />
= Equals exactly (but case independent)<br />
Does not equal<br />
~ Contains (text only)<br />
!~ Does not contain (text only)<br />
-* Starts with (text only)<br />
*- Ends with (text only)<br />
> is larger than (numbers and dates only)<br />
< is smaller than (numbers and dates only)<br />
/ between two values (numbers and dates only)<br />
?<br />
ignore this parameter - only used for checkboxes, where "=" will only return the entries<br />
where this field is unchecked.<br />
In the field to the right of the operator you can enter values you wish to search for. Lines<br />
where you leave this field empty are ignored. If you enter several conditions, they will all have<br />
to be met.<br />
There are a few special values you can enter in these input fields:<br />
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• You can enter and in a single line. For example to get all the names<br />
starting with "a" or with "b" you would enter:<br />
• You can enter the current date as "Date()" and for instance today + 5 days by entering<br />
"Date()+5". Therefore, all contacts that took place yesterday would be returned by:<br />
• You can enter a condition compared to another field. For example for all users where<br />
the first name matches the surname you could enter:<br />
or<br />
Note that you have to enter the field labels between the opening and closing brackets<br />
exactly as they are displayed on the IDA forms.<br />
• You can also enter comparative values compared to the field name in the database. This<br />
is not typically visible to the user, but might be useful in cases where a form contains<br />
several fields with the same label. In this case your system administrator might be able<br />
to help you.<br />
Pressing "Go" will lead you to your search results. By default up to 10 entries will be shown on<br />
a page. If there are more than ten search results, you will see a list of pages at the bottom and<br />
can move through them one by one. If you wish to see a different number of entries per page,<br />
you can enter a number in "Max. Entries". This number will be remembered for your session.<br />
Alternatively, you can do statistics on this object, by pressing the "Stats" button. If you do not<br />
see the "Stats" button, then you either do not have rights to do statistics or you simply need to<br />
click "Show Stats".<br />
For statistics, you can additionally chose functions for individual fields in the dropdown field on<br />
the right of each row (again this field will disappear if your search view is collapsed or you<br />
have no rights for statistics). The most commonly used function is "Group", which means that<br />
the graph that you will see when you click on Stats will be broken up according to the different<br />
values of the field you have decided to group. If you do not select another function, your<br />
statistics will simply return the number of entries that exist for each value. As an example, you<br />
can group tasks by status and would obtain results looking like this:<br />
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Of course, you can combine statistics functions with search criteria:<br />
Alternatively, you can select one of the following functions, which will only yield sensible values<br />
for numeric fields:<br />
SUM<br />
Instead of the count of the entries corresponding to your search criteria, you will see<br />
the sum. This is particularly useful if you would like to see the running total of a<br />
purchase.<br />
Max This will return the maximum value amongst those selected.<br />
Min This will return the minimum value amongst those selected.<br />
Avg This will return the average value amongst those selected.<br />
Cut<br />
This is a special function which requires that you enter a condition in the input field.<br />
Your result will then be grouped according to whether this condition is met or not. For<br />
instance, you could enter<br />
to see the number of<br />
tasks that have a status higher than finished or lower than finished.<br />
If you wish to group a field and apply one of the other functions at the same time, you can use<br />
the "-" operator.<br />
3 Lists<br />
When you enter search criteria that match more than one existing record that you are allowed<br />
to see, then clicking "Go" on the search form will return a list which will look a bit like the<br />
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example below. Which fields are actually shown in the list is determined by your system<br />
administrator and can be changed easily:<br />
Opening, Saving and Deleting<br />
You can access an entry in a list by pressing the "Open" button (4). Depending on your rights,<br />
you might also be able to modify an entry in the list and then press the "Save" button (2).<br />
Again depending on your rights, you might also see the "Delete" button (3). Please note that<br />
you have to save or delete each entry individually. If you would like to recover the last entry<br />
you have deleted in a list, you can click the "Recover" button (7). This will open the recovered<br />
entry, if one is found. IDA keeps track of all items you have ever deleted that match your<br />
search criteria, not just those deleted during the last session.<br />
Sorting<br />
If you would like to sort the list by one of the shown columns, you only have to click the field<br />
label in the table header. When you click on the left part of the label, the entries will be sorted<br />
in ascending order, while the right part will sort them in descending order. IDA will remember<br />
all fields you have sorted by, with the last field clicked being the first in the sort order. So if<br />
you would like to sort this example by "Status" and then by "Priority", you would click on<br />
"Priority" first and then on "Status".<br />
Opening related entries<br />
If one of the fields you see in a list is linked to a different object, you will see an "Open Related<br />
Entry" button (1), that will lead you to the related object. Note also, that in this example the<br />
"Owner" field is a dropdown menu. But when a dropdown field with many entries is included in<br />
a list, IDA automatically turns it into a read-only field as the html code required for a list of<br />
dropdowns would significantly slow down the page transmission. You can modify this field then<br />
by opening the entry and looking at it in a main form.<br />
Paging<br />
Depending on whether you have entered a value in the "Max. Entries" field on the search form,<br />
you will get the default of up to 10 entries showing on one page or another number. If there<br />
are actually more search results, then you will see page numbers of the search result showing<br />
at the bottom (5). The current page you are on is shown in red, the others are shown in blue.<br />
You can open the corresponding page simply by clicking a number. You can also use the arrows<br />
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to navigate through the different pages (6).<br />
Exporting Data<br />
IDA allows you to export data from lists to either a comma-separated-values file (8), which you<br />
can open in a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel or as an HTML table (9), which you<br />
can print or copy and paste into other applications.<br />
4 Main Forms<br />
When your search criteria returns one record or you open an entry in a list, you will see this<br />
entry in a main form, like in the example below:<br />
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Tabs<br />
The main form might have one or several tabs (1,2). The first tab will correspond to the name<br />
of the object in the menu. The active tab is shown in a different colour. You can open the other<br />
tabs simply by clicking on them. Please note that data on each tab is saved separately.<br />
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Dashboard<br />
There might be fields above all the tabs in the space referred to as the dashboard (3). These<br />
will not change regardless of which tab you are on. The data in these fields will also be saved,<br />
regardless of the tab you are on.<br />
New Records<br />
If you enter a new record, you will see a form very similar to the main form. The only<br />
difference is that there are no tabs (as only one tab can be saved at a time). Depending on the<br />
form definitions, different tabs will appear as different sections on the main form.<br />
Special Fields<br />
A form might contain some required fields. These are marked in a colour set by your system<br />
administrator - typically red (4). When you try to save with one of these fields left blank, an<br />
error message will appear. Some fields might also be set to be read-only by your system<br />
administrator, even though you can edit other fields on the form. In some special cases, the<br />
data available in one dropdown field is dependent on the value selected in another dropdown<br />
field. In this case, you will have to save the record to update the other list.<br />
Links and Locators<br />
A form might also include links to other objects. These are typically shown in blue (5,6).<br />
Clicking the link will open this related entry. Please note that if you have made a change, the<br />
link will only be updated when you save the record (7). Link fields will often be dropdowns (6),<br />
so that you can select an entry from a list. If the list is too long, then a locator symbol will be<br />
shown instead (5). Clicking this symbol will bring up a special variation of the search form for<br />
that object (see below). This allows you to search for and select the entry you want. To delete<br />
the entry in the field, you would open the locator and either search with criteria that do not<br />
return any records or you can click on the "Clear" button (13). All of these actions will bring<br />
you back to the main form you were working with.<br />
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Help<br />
When you see a question mark next to a label (6) then additional information about the<br />
purpose of this field is available as context help. This should be the case whenever a label is<br />
not self-explanatory.<br />
Saving and Deleting<br />
You can save (7) and delete (8) records according to your rights. Depending on your style<br />
settings, each record might show the author, creation date and the last modification next to<br />
the save and delete buttons (9).<br />
Related Lists<br />
A main form might contain one or more related lists. An example are the "Email Aliases" (10)<br />
for a "Person" above or the "Subtasks" associated with a "Project" below. The entries on a list<br />
are all saved and deleted independently from the main form - they correspond to separate<br />
entries in a different table in the database. This allows you to store any number of e-mail<br />
aliases for a person or issues for a task.<br />
There are two types of list:<br />
1. Lists with not so many fields are just modified from within the list, like in the example<br />
above. To enter a new entry, you simply fill in the blank line (12) beneath the lines with<br />
the existing entries (11) and press the save button.<br />
2. If the list contains a more complicated object, then there will be a separate main form<br />
for the object and a new entry will be created by clicking on the "New" symbol (14)<br />
above the list. Such lists will also have an "Open" icon (15) - much like a list of search<br />
results.<br />
All lists on main forms can be sorted and might have several pages of entries (16), just like the<br />
lists you obtain as a search result. If there is more than one page and you would like to show<br />
more or fewer entries per page, then you can click the<br />
You can also export the data in such lists (19,20).<br />
(18) or the (17) button.<br />
5 Special IDA Modules<br />
5.1 The Calendar<br />
The IDA calendar is a powerful and versatile workforce tool, that provides an immediate<br />
overview of your current activities and the ability to share these with your colleagues.<br />
Typically, you will see your calendar on the right of the screen, when you log into IDA.<br />
Whether it shows only the current day or the current week is determined by your system<br />
administrator. You can also see a blown up view of the whole month - or in fact - any number<br />
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of days you like. To show just a single day, simply click on the day of the week you wish to<br />
see. To go to a bigger view, click the expand button in the top left corner , or simply extend<br />
the horizontal scale .<br />
The day view The week view<br />
The calendar displays the following objects:<br />
The month view<br />
• Appointments and contacts, including periodic events. These are displayed at their<br />
respective time in the calendar. In the day view, the title of the appointment is shown.<br />
In multi-day view, there will be a folder icon, which will show the title as a tool-tip.<br />
Periodic events are shown as , personal events are shown as , private events are<br />
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shown as and regular events are shown as . Clicking on the icon will open the<br />
•<br />
appropriate entry.<br />
Tasks and Issues: These are displayed at the bottom of the day on which they are due<br />
to be finished. Finished tasks and issues are shown as , open tasks and issues are<br />
shown as and overdue tasks and issues are shown as .<br />
• Holidays and Weekends. Holidays and weekends are shown in a different colour.<br />
Holidays are also marked by the icon, which will also tell the user what the holiday is.<br />
• Birthdays of team members and your contacts. These are shown with the icon and<br />
•<br />
will give the name of the person whose birthday it is. Clicking on the icon will lead you<br />
to the respective "Team" or "Person" entry.<br />
Absences and business trips: These are marked in a different colour on the calendar.<br />
Tool-Tip help on the icon will give you details about the trip.<br />
• Anniversaries: These are appointments you set on a yearly repeat and lasting the<br />
whole day. They are marked like birthdays.<br />
You can set which of your calendar entries you would like to keep private. All other entries will<br />
be visible to your colleagues, but you can still mark them as either business or personal. When<br />
you add another person to a meeting, who has another engagement entered in his calendar at<br />
that time, you will receive a warning with a link to the prior engagement.<br />
The following icons help you control the layout of the calendar:<br />
Move backward in time<br />
Move forward in time<br />
Expand the number of days shown<br />
Decrease the number of days shown<br />
Increase the number of hours shown<br />
Decrease the number of hours shown<br />
Go to the calendar full screen view<br />
Displays all your team members in a list. From here you have quick access to their<br />
calendars and utilization charts to easy add appointments or to view their workload.<br />
This displays a single day view with details of the entries on that day.<br />
This displays the days as columns with entries for every hour.<br />
This displays the weeks as columns with entries for every day.<br />
This displays the months as columns with entries for every day.<br />
These two buttons help you to toggle between an expanded and a narrow view of the<br />
calendar. By default, the narrow view as explained above is displayed. Using the expanded<br />
view by clicking on will always show also the enries for hours, even if a whole month is<br />
displayed. Clicking on takes you back to the narrow view.<br />
+ Show more contact types, i.e. phone-calls or e-mails in addition to appointments<br />
- Show fewer contact types<br />
New entries are entered into the calendar as "Appointments" by simply clicking on a time slot.<br />
The date and the time will be pre-filled to the nearest hour. Checking "Private" will keep the<br />
entry hidden from all other users. A team member and a contact person can be added<br />
immediately. You can also decide to invite your entire business unit or even the whole<br />
company. Further individual attendees, detailed repeat settings and other information can be<br />
added after you have saved the entry.<br />
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5.2 The Project Plan<br />
IDA project management allows you to organize your work in a hierarchical structure, where<br />
any task entry can contain any number of other task entries, much like a folder on your<br />
desktop. In this way, all work that is done in your organisation can be depicted, with different<br />
levels of management gaining a quick overview at their required resolution. The easiest way to<br />
visualize current progress is to look at a section of this hierarchical task structure through a<br />
gantt chart module. This can be opened from any task, by pressing the "Proj. Plan" button, or -<br />
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if you wish to enter at the top - by pressing the "Proj. Plan" button in the menu.<br />
The current task you are looking at is shown in bold on the third row. Tasks that contain<br />
subtasks are shown as brackets and milestones are shown as diamonds. Follow-on tasks or<br />
also graphically shown with arrows.<br />
You can navigate upwards by clicking on the "Parent" or downwards by clicking on any of the<br />
tasks shown below. You can also add a new subtask for the current task by clicking on the new<br />
entry symbol to the right of the task. Clicking on the folder icon will open the "Task" form for<br />
the corresponding entry, while clicking on the name of a task will return a subsection of the<br />
Gantt Chart View.<br />
Determine how deep you want to explore each task, i.e. whether you want to see just the<br />
subtasks, or also the subtasks of the subtasks and so on, by changing the "Depth" value: Click<br />
on the "+" or "-" signs next to it. You can also drill down into tasks with subtasks individually,<br />
be clicking on the icon or you can hide the children by clicking the icon.<br />
Change the time-scale by clicking on the "+" or "-" sign next to "Zoom".<br />
Display only the open tasks or all tasks by clicking on the respective link next to "Mode".<br />
Move backwards and forwards in time by clicking on or . When these symbols are shown<br />
next to a task, it means that this task extends beyond the shown time frame into the past or<br />
into the future.<br />
The bars in the Gantt Chart denote the anticipated time extent of a task. If you are in "Show<br />
Priority" mode, the colour will denote the priority of a task, otherwise it will denote the status.<br />
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Beneath the tasks, you can see the resources involved in the tasks displayed, as well as their<br />
over-all work-load during this time-span. Green bars represent under-utilization, black bars are<br />
full load and red and above indicates a team-member who is somewhat overworked. The teammembers<br />
are represented by their initials. Clicking on one of the coloured bars will open the<br />
tasklist of the corresponding team-member. Weekends and holidays are taken into shown as<br />
while vacations are shown as .<br />
Clicking "+" and "-" next to "Priority" will determine how many tasks will be displayed in the<br />
project plan. Is the number low, only the tasks with the highest priority will be shown. This<br />
way you can hide the less important tasks.<br />
The multi-colored entries to the left of the tasks show the person in charge of the task. Clicking<br />
on the initials will open their "Team" entry. You can hide this column and the utilization by<br />
clicking on "Hide Team" at the bottom. But note that also the graphical representation of the<br />
team-members workload will then disappear from the project plan.<br />
The "Task Type Filter" control at the bottom allows you to hide all different types of tasks<br />
provided in IDA individually.<br />
5.3 The Tree View<br />
IDA uses tree views as a graphical representation of hierarchical structure of various objects.<br />
These include the Support Database in IDA Support, website navigation in IDA CMS and the<br />
Org Chart in IDA CRM. All of these tree views are similar. You can open them from any object<br />
within the tree by opening this entry and pressing a button. For instance, to see the Org Chart<br />
of a company, you open the company and click on "Chart".<br />
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Then you can navigate through the tree by clicking on any of the sub-entries (this will just give<br />
you a subsection of the tree) or the actual entry itself, by clicking on the folder symbol. You<br />
can also collapse or expand individual nodes with the and buttons. Additional information<br />
will be displayed about each entry, such as the preferred language of a person in an Org Chart,<br />
or the preview of web-page in the CMS module.<br />
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To return to the menu, simply click on and to bookmark this particular view, you can click<br />
on .<br />
5.4 Reservations Module<br />
This module manages reservations for facilities and displays them in a calendar. The calendar<br />
can show all the reservations for a specific facility, for a type of facilites or for all facilities. The<br />
latter mode enables the user to see if there are vacancies of specific facility type, how many<br />
reservations there are in a certain time slot or whether it is fully booked.<br />
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• If there are no reservations, the timeslot will appear in the normal background color and<br />
clicking on a slot allows the user to enter a new reservation.<br />
• If there are some reservations but also vacancies, the timeslot will appear in yellow and<br />
the number of existing reservations will be displayed. Clicking on the number will show<br />
the existing reservations. If you click just to the right of the number, you can enter a<br />
new reservation for that timeslot.<br />
• If all facilities of the current type are fully booked, then the timeslot will be shown in<br />
red, with the number of bookings indicated. Clicking the number will show the existing<br />
reservations. You can not enter a new reservation for that timeslot.<br />
At the bottom, all the facilities of the current type or the number of facilities of the<br />
current type are shown, so the user can easily work out how many vacancies are left.<br />
Your administrator might also prefer you to see the number of remaining vacancies,<br />
rather than the number of existing reservations.<br />
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5.4.1 Calendar Controls<br />
At the top of the calendar, there are four controls that allow you to toggle the<br />
timescale:<br />
This displays a single day view with details of the entries on that day.<br />
This displays the days as columns with entries for every hour.<br />
This displays the weeks as columns with entries for every day.<br />
This displays the months as columns with entries for every day.<br />
These buttons also allow you to change the timespan covered:<br />
Takes you back in time.<br />
Takes you forward in time.<br />
Extends the hours per day visible.<br />
Reduces the hours per day visible.<br />
You can also click on the column headings to get a close-up view of a specific timespan.<br />
In this way, you will get from the month view to the week view to the day view to the<br />
day view with detail.<br />
5.4.2 Reservation Types and Categories<br />
The reservations calendar will allow you to differentiate according to reservation<br />
categories and facility types. You can click on the corresponding links at the bottom of<br />
the calendar, to toggle between a view of "all" or a specific type or category<br />
respectively.<br />
Both "Types" and "Categories" can be set freely by your administrator. Selecting a<br />
certain type of facility will either give you a list of all the facilities of that type beneath<br />
it, or just the number of facilities of a certain type, if there are more than a pre-defined<br />
number of facilities of that type. This number is pre-set to 10, but can be changed by<br />
your administrator for your installation.<br />
5.5 Absence Calendar<br />
This module visualizes absences for team members in a calendar. The calendar can<br />
show absences for an individual team member, for all team members from one unit or<br />
for all team members. The latter mode enables the user to see how many members of a<br />
unit are available at any one time, which is particularly useful in the vacation planning<br />
of a help-desk, for instance.<br />
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• If there are no absences, the timeslot will appear in the normal background color<br />
and clicking on a slot allows the user to enter a new absence. Absences can also<br />
be entered from the team member form.<br />
• If there are some absences but also remaining team members, the timeslot will<br />
appear in yellow and the number of absences will be displayed. Clicking on the<br />
number will show the existing absences. If you click just to the right of the<br />
number, you can enter a new absence for that timeslot.<br />
• If all team members of the selected unit are absent, then the timeslot will be<br />
shown in red, with the number of absences indicated. Clicking the number will<br />
show the absences as a list. You can not enter a new absence for that timeslot.<br />
At the bottom, all the team members of the current unit or the number of team<br />
members in the current unit are shown. Your administrator might also prefer you to see<br />
the number of team members, rather than the number of absences.<br />
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5.5.1 Calendar Controls<br />
At the top of the calendar, there are four controls that allow you to toggle the<br />
timescale:<br />
This displays a single day view with details of the entries on that day.<br />
This displays the days as columns with entries for every hour.<br />
This displays the weeks as columns with entries for every day.<br />
This displays the months as columns with entries for every day.<br />
These buttons also allow you to change the timespan covered:<br />
Takes you back in time.<br />
Takes you forward in time.<br />
Extends the hours per day visible.<br />
Reduces the hours per day visible.<br />
You can also click on the column headings to get a close-up view of a specific timespan.<br />
In this way, you will get from the month view to the week view to the day view to the<br />
day view with detail.<br />
5.5.2 Absence Types and Categories<br />
The absence calendar will allow you to differentiate according to absence types and<br />
team units. You can click on the corresponding links at the bottom of the calendar, to<br />
toggle between a view of "all" or a specific type or category respectively.<br />
Both "Types" and "Categories" can be set freely by your administrator. Selecting a<br />
certain unit will either give you a list of all the team members belonging to that unit<br />
beneath it, or just the number of team members in a unit, if there are more than a predefined<br />
number of team-members in the unit. This number is pre-set to 10, but can be<br />
changed by your administrator for your installation.<br />
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