We’re excited to announce the availability of MIDAS v4.06!

Some of the highlights of this latest update to powerful web based room and resource scheduling software include…

Flexible Venue Rates

Charge your rooms at different rates based upon the length of bookings…

Improved Statistics & Reporting

New Venue Utilization, Resource Usage, and individual Client statistics…

Active Directory Integration

Provides seamless “Single Sign-on” capabilities for MIDAS using your organization’s Active Directory

…and much more, including:

• New: Resource statistics
• New: Set different venue rates based upon booking length for each day of the week
• New: User “groups” – Easily apply a set of pre-defined permissions to each user
• New: Day Notes for any selected dates are now indicated and shown on the Booking Availability screen
• New: Active Directory Integration (Single Sign-On support) (Experimental)
• New: Database Tools – Import, merge, clean up & optimize your database!
• Improved: New venue utilization statistics
• Improved: New individual client statistics
• Improved: Now possible to set venue operating hours to be closed between 15-30, 30-45, and 15-45 minutes past the hour
• Improved: MIDAS now remembers your last selected date range on the statistics screen and the Find Similar Bookings window
• Improved: Increased the size of some setting elements to make them more easy to change on smaller screens
• Improved: Month overview now has previous/next month buttons
• Improved: Monthly overview now shows name of month/year at the top of the screen
• Improved: Client Notes now displayed in Search Results
• Improved: Axis swapped for venue capacities statistics
• Optimization: Big reduction in number of MySQL connections & queries
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.05

You can view the full Changelog for MIDAS v4.06 here

Keep Your Browser Up-to-date!

We want you to have the best possible user experience when using MIDAS in your favorite Web Browser. MIDAS is supported in all 5 major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera). A list of the minimum and recommended versions for each of these browsers we support can be found at mid.as/browsers.

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How To Get MIDAS v4.06

Existing MIDAS customers with valid Annual Support Subscriptions can update to v4.06 from within the software (MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Update)

Customers who have their MIDAS “remotely hosted” by us – you don’t need to do anything – We’ll be automatically updating you to MIDAS v4.06 this weekend!

If you’re not yet using MIDAS, maybe now is the time to get on top of your organization’s room and resource scheduling once and for all with our intuitive, powerful and easy to use, web based software MIDAS!?

Why not give MIDAS a try now, Read what some of our existing customers say, and get MIDAS for your organization today!.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year from all of us here at MIDAS HQ, and also announce the availability of MIDAS v4.05!

MIDAS v4.05 features better support for iPads, touch-screen devices, and portrait-orientated devices, new Venue “Blocking” features, improvements to invoicing, and much more, including:

You can view the full Changelog for MIDAS v4.05 here

Keep Your Browser Up-to-date!

We want you to have the best possible user experience when using MIDAS in your favorite Web Browser. We support our web based scheduling software in all 5 major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera), and a list of the minimum and recommended versions for each of these browsers we support can be found at https://mid.as/browsers.

Important Information for users of Internet Explorer 8

As we first indicated back in November 2012, and again in March 2013, we would soon be dropping support for Internet Explorer 8.

Therefore, starting with MIDAS v4.05, Internet Explorer 8 is no longer supported. That’s not to say that MIDAS will suddenly stop working in IE8, on the contrary, MIDAS may continue to function in IE8 for some time to come, and we’re certainly not “blocking” access to MIDAS if you still use IE8 – but it means that we are no longer actively supporting this obsolete browser, and therefore if you encounter any issues running MIDAS in IE8, we will no longer be addressing them, and will instead encourage you to update your web browser.

How To Get MIDAS v4.05

Existing MIDAS customers with valid Annual Support Subscriptions can update to v4.05 from within the software (MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Update)

Customers who have their MIDAS “remotely hosted” by us – you don’t need to do anything – We’ll be automatically updating you to MIDAS v4.05 this weekend!

If you’re not yet using MIDAS, why not start off the New Year by getting your organization’s room scheduling in order once and for all with our intuitive, popular and easy to use, web based software MIDAS!?

Why not give MIDAS a try now, and Read what some of our existing customers say

Once again, on behalf of everyone at MIDAS, we wish you all the very best for 2014 and we hope it will be a prosperous year for you!

We are pleased to announce the availability of MIDAS v4.04!

Read on to find out about the new features and improvements we’ve made in the latest update to our powerful room scheduling software.

Venue-Specific Resources

In v4.04, we’ve introduced “venue-specific” resources! Previously, any resources you added to MIDAS would then be available globally across all of your venues. Now, you can specify your resources (equipment, consumables, and staffing) to only be available to specific venues. So, for instance, if you schedule a mixture of both sports facilities and classrooms, and you have “Football Nets” defined as a resource, you can now restrict this resource to only be available to say your “Sports Hall” and “All Weather Pitch”, but not available for classrooms!

New Web Request Settings

The “Public Booking Request” (web request) is a standard feature of our web based scheduling software. It allows non-users (i.e. visitors to your website/members of the public) to check your venue’s availability and make booking requests. This feature of our scheduling software is one of the most popular. Therefore, based on customer feedback, we’ve implemented three new settings in v4.04….

Show Hours of Operation

By default, your venue’s operating hours are not revealed on your Public Booking Request screen. This setting will show a visual representation of each venue’s hours of operation (similar to that shown to logged in users). NOTE: Whether this setting is enabled or not, requesters will still not be able to make booking requests outside of your operating hours. This setting merely provides a visual indication to requesters of when your venues are closed.

Show Venue Capacities

On the initial screen of the Public Booking Request process, each of your publicly requestable venues are listed. The capacity (maximum occupancy) of each is also usually indicated. In some cases it may be desirable to hide the capacity information on this screen – especially if you don’t use MIDAS primarily to schedule venues. For instance, some customers use MIDAS, and the Public Booking Request features, to allow staff to schedule support technicians or their own annual leave. This new setting removes information on your venue capacities from your Public Booking Request screens.

Auto-Approve Booking Requests

If enabled, this new setting will automatically approve and convert all received booking “requests” into actual confirmed bookings (availability permitting). This setting is ideal if you’d like members of the public to be able to schedule their own appointments without first requiring approval from a MIDAS administrator.

Sort Booking Requests

With v4.04, you can now quickly sort received booking requests by either the date/time that the booking request was made, or the date/time that the requested booking starts. Sorting can be in either ascending or descending order, by simply clicking the corresponding heading. In earlier versions this was fixed to sort requests by booking start times in ascending order.

New URL Custom Booking Field Type

MIDAS already allows you to add your own custom booking fields. These custom fields can either be single-line text, multi-line text, numeric, or drop-down list.
With v4.04 we’ve added a new custom booking field option: URL. A custom URL field allows you to associate one or more internet addresses (URLs) to your bookings, which are also “clickable” allowing users to navigate to the URL.

This could be useful – for instance – to link to the homepage of the organization that the booking is for. Or you could use a custom URL field to to a .pdf or Word document with further information about the booking, or an associated booking contract/insurance certificate… or anything you want!

Other New Settings

We’ve also added a couple of other new settings for v4.04…

Account for Pending Booking Requests when checking Booking Availability

By default, when making bookings, MIDAS doesn’t take into account any outstanding Pending Booking Requests when checking Booking Availability. For example, if a booking request is currently “pending” for Room 1 on Monday from 9am-10am, whilst it remains “pending”, other actual bookings can still be made for this venue/time slot.

To prevent any other bookings being made in slots where “pending” bookings are still awaiting approval, select this option. MIDAS will then show “Unavailable” for subsequent bookings that would conflict with outstanding booking requests.

Enable links for phone numbers (Skype integration)

If enabled, phone/cell numbers displayed within MIDAS will become clickable (using the callto: prefix). If you have compatible software installed on your device, such as Skype, clicking these numbers within MIDAS initiate a call to the corresponding number.

Other New Features

• Quickly “duplicate” bookings by dragging them whilst holding Shift
• Ability to filter by booking type when searching for bookings

Changelog / Release Notes

The full changelog may be viewed here

Recent NEW addons

Did you know that during August we released TWO new addons for MIDAS?

With the “Web Calendars” you can seamlessly embed calendars directly into your website.

The “Digital Signage” addon is a powerful solution offering real-time display of ongoing and upcoming room bookings on TV screens around your site!

Read more about these exciting new addons here

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How to get MIDAS v4.04

Existing customers with an ongoing Annual Support Subscription are entitled to a FREE update to v4.04. This may be obtained within the software via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Update.

If you’re an existing customer with a recently expired Annual Support Subscription, don’t worry – you can quickly renew your subscription to get the update to v4.04.

…and if we cloud host your MIDAS booking system, there’s no need to do anything – we’ve already automatically updated you to v4.04!

If you’re not yet using MIDAS for your organization’s scheduling, you can purchase online directly through our website.