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
Hi Kathleen,
I don't think we have one mega calendar with everything in it, but we do use ArtsVision to manage all of our events and locations at the Center. It is our one calendar of truth for things going on at the center. As our campus planning/ops manager likes to say, if it is not in ArtsVision, it doesn't exist. Otherwise we use Outlook for meetings and conference rooms, as well as personal planning, etc.
Sean
This one looks like a hefty beast! (I am also fond of defining our "systems of record" - Netsuite for all financials, Tess for customers, etc).
ArtsVision does have a lot of extra functionality in addition to the Calendar feature. It takes a little getting used to but it does have a lot of features and has some integration points with Tessitura.