craiggsmith wrote:As I see it there are three primary functions of the reservations tab -- what I call "complete blocks" (location unavailable) to prevent anyone from scheduling the building for Monday nights for example, "event blocks" (location unavailable) for weddings and such, and "reservations" (assigned to a unit). I think the "complete blocks" and "reservations" function still has a purpose; it sounds to me like the discussion here is regarding " event blocks".
I'm not sure why you use these nonstandard terms, and I'm a bit confused as to what you mean by them.
The only way to create what I might call a "complete block" is to create an event, since that is the only way to book a location in a way that could accurately be described as "complete." I think you might be referring to a "Blocked Reservation," but that is not "complete," since any building scheduler can schedule an event on top of it.
What you call an "event block" sounds to me like it's just an event that books a resource; I'm not sure why you would use that term, since it combines the term "event" (which clearly applies to events) with the term "block" (which applies only to reservations).
craiggsmith wrote:I can NOT schedule blocks or reservations on top of each other; if I could schedule two reservations on top of each other it would solve a lot of my problems!
Although I can imagine a use case where reservations on top of reservations might be useful, I think the risks of such a feature far outweigh the benefits. As soon as you allow that, it becomes possible for a building scheduler to unintentionally create conflicting reservations. If those reservations are for different wards, then you now have two wards who think they own the same resource at the same time -- that would be bad, and would void the whole purpose of reservations assigned to a unit.
craiggsmith wrote:I can NOT schedule a calendar event on top of a reservation.
I don't understand how that could be the case. Any calendar editor in the assigned unit can schedule an event on top of a reservation. And a building scheduler (which you said you are at this point) can schedule an event on top of
any reservation for his building, as long as he is a calendar editor (and you said you are a stake administrator and thus a stake calendar editor).
craiggsmith wrote:I HAVE been able to schedule two events on our stake calendar on top of each other! (No blocks/reservations involved.) Yes they are using the exact same room. I think I usually can't do this, but it let me once. There were existing events that initially didn't overlap but were later edited.
I've never seen this, except in the case of a bug (since fixed) involving a reservation and two events created by a building scheduler.
craiggsmith wrote:One thing I hate is when I schedule an event it warns me of all the blocks in all the buildings. If I've chose a location it should only be looking at that location (and of course including events without locations).
I completely agree with this. When the system casts too broad a net for reporting conflicts, it creates a list that is so long that it becomes less useful -- I completely ignore long lists, but I look at a list of 2-3 possible conflicts.
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