Hi everyone!While not strictly a database question, I'm sure lots of you will have ideas. We have an issue with calendars. We have office holiday calendars, performance calendars, production/technical calendars, event calendars, artistic calendars, in/out of office calendars... it's like Forrest Gump naming how many kinds of shrimp there are. We have that many calendars. And some people will print them out in Excel and work from those, some insist on trying to smush everything into outlook, some use their own personal creations... which means updates don't necessarily go out to everyone that needs them, changes don't get communicated, etc, etc. Does anyone know of a (free or lower cost) "Calendar Central" that can kind of pull all of these together? Maybe with toggles to show "these three calendars" over a 90 day span, or something like that? While outlook is fine for personal daily calendars, once we start adding in all of the other ones, it gets too unwieldy.
And while I'm thinking of it, is there any kind of wiki for adjacent software/apps that people find helpful? should we start one?
thanks!Kathleen
Kathleen Smith said: it's like Forrest Gump naming how many kinds of shrimp there are. We have that many calendars.
Us, too; and, I imagine, most orgs. We have a "one true calendar" conversation every few years, and each time we find that no such product exists. The latest complexity is that whatever it is will have to viewable/updateable from our phones. [sigh]
We just need the equivalent of a One Ring but for calendars. How hard can it be? :-)
Kathleen Smith said:How hard can it be? :-)
:-D
Chris Jensen said:The latest complexity is that whatever it is will have to viewable/updateable from our phones. [sigh]
I think it's a truism that anyone with the authority to change major events in a calendar shouldn't be trusted to actually enter the changes.
"And it is updateable from your phone! Just email the changes to help@....."
Gawain Lavers said:I think it's a truism that anyone with the authority to change major events in a calendar shouldn't be trusted to actually enter the changes.
Agreed, though limiting who can make changes will cause someone to create a new calendar somewhere... and a year or two later it will be discovered that dozens of people are using it... and the one source of truth will have moved yet again... [head explodes]