Is there a beginner's manual?
Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 1:06 am
My stake has never used the lds.org calendar for scheduling buildings. The stake leadership is currently looking into changing the way building scheduling has been done throughout the stake, and I have been asked to explain how the lds.org calendar works with respect to building scheduling.
I downloaded and read the documentation online and watched the videos and still have a lot of questions. I obviously am missing some concepts about the calendar and hope someone can help me understand them. If I can't make a compelling argument, demonstrating that the calendar will be a good replacement for the current scheduling method, I am afraid that my stake will decide to move everyone to google calendar.
Following are the questions I have.
I downloaded and read the documentation online and watched the videos and still have a lot of questions. I obviously am missing some concepts about the calendar and hope someone can help me understand them. If I can't make a compelling argument, demonstrating that the calendar will be a good replacement for the current scheduling method, I am afraid that my stake will decide to move everyone to google calendar.
Following are the questions I have.
- What is the latest documentation version? I have read version 2.2, dated 1/21/2013. It talks about Reservations, but the calendar lists Restrictions, not Reservations, so I am assuming that the documentation is old.
- After reading through many of the threads on the forum, I am assuming that the term 'calendar editor' is the term that replaces the old responsibilities of the 'building scheduler' .. just with a different title. Is this correct?
- Who exactly are the calendar editors in the ward? Just the leaders of the different auxiliaries?
- Can calendar editors see all activities scheduled in the building, even those for other wards? Or just the activities for their ward?
- If the answer to the last question is 'no', how do they know when they can schedule events? Can they see where blocks of time are free? Or blocks of time that are being used?
- Who schedules funerals, weddings, wedding dinners, family parties, etc.? And does that person, or persons, have access to all of building's schedules?
- If the building scheduler defines restrictions for different wards, at different times of the week, how do the calendar editors know when those times are? Are they visible on each ward's calendars?
- When viewing the calendar in the week-view, there are two boxes on the far left, Subscribed Calendars and Locations. As an Administrator, how do you add additional locations in the Location section? I can't find this anywhere in the documentation.
- Can members of the ward see the calendar, along with the activities that are scheduled?