Gary_Miller wrote:How about that it just does not make sense to book using "Other Location" when your location your meeting in is on the list of locations. It just does not pass the sanity check.
I guess we have different definitions of sanity. Using the "Other Location" option is a reasonable choice when the place the event takes place is not in a room that is currently configured, even if it takes place at one of the buildings configured as a location in the calendar system.
As an example, we once had an event for which we specified the location as "Other Location" and then said that it took place in "The northwest corner of the stake center parking lot." That's an event that took place at the stake center -- one of the locations in the list of locations -- but did not occur in a configured room. Would it make sense that the only proper way to specify this event's location is to create a room called "NW corner of parking lot" and attach it to the stake center location? That doesn't pass a sanity check for me. And rooms that don't need to be scheduled according to our stake's rules are in the exact same category. I freely grant that other stakes may have different rules, but that's their choice, not ours.
Gary_Miller wrote:What Simplicity?
The simplicity I'm talking about is that every time a calendar editor needs to select a room from the list, they scroll through a list of about 10-15 rooms, instead of a list of 40-50 rooms.
Gary_Miller wrote:I can see that they work.
As for working well, that's yet to be determined.
How much data do you need? Our stake has two years of experience operating this way. I haven't heard a single complaint on the topic we're addressing (and believe me, I hear plenty of complaints on other calendar-related topics).
One of the great features of the calendar system is that it provides sufficient flexibility that stakes can operate in different ways, finding a configuration and set of processes that works well for each. Posts on this forum show that various stakes choose widely different ways of using the calendar -- and they do so successfully. Although it's helpful to point out your perspective of pros and cons for different approaches, it is clear that different stakes may attach different priorities to the various pros and cons. I think that's healthy.
Questions that can benefit the larger community should be asked in a public forum, not a private message.
