2 minute read time · Updated March 18, 2024 · First published August 12, 2014
Introducing API Version 2…
The MIDAS API is an optional addon for MIDAS, allowing you to interface directly with your MIDAS scheduling system from your own applications.
First introduced just over a year ago, version 1 of the API allowed developers to access and retrieve data from MIDAS.
Version 2 of the API builds on this, and extends the API’s capabilities further by now allowing “bi-directional” access to MIDAS. This means that as well as being able to simply “read” data from MIDAS through the API, developers can now also “write” data to MIDAS, and modify existing data.
Nearly two dozen new API calls have been implemented for API v2, allowing you to:
Add, delete or modify bookings, clients, and resources
Add, generate, or delete invoices
Approve or reject booking requests
Email clients
Change settings …and more!
Full documentation for version 2 of the API is now available online at mid.as/api, and will shortly be available in an offline format too.API v2 will be available to coincide with the upcoming release of MIDAS v4.07, and will a FREE update to existing API users who have an ongoing annual support subscription covering the release of v4.07.
v2 is also backwards compatible with v1 of the API. Existing customers who wish to add the optional API to their MIDAS installation can do so via mid.as/upgrade.
New customers can purchase MIDAS along with the optional API addon via mid.as/pricing.
2 minute read time · Updated February 12, 2025 · First published August 7, 2013
Last week, we released two brand new addons for MIDAS. Today we take a closer look at some of the benefits that MIDAS, and our Digital Signage solution, are having on one organization in Canada…
The Livingston Center, Tillsonburg, Ontario
The Livingston Centre, situated in Tillsonburg, Ontario, is a unique “one-stop-shop” service building that houses five partners and twelve associated agencies.
The Livingston Centre have been using MIDAS to handle their scheduling requirements since 2012. Staff, volunteers, committees and members of the public book spaces at the Centre, and at another one of the center’s locations, through the reception team and communication coordinator.
The Digital Signage interface for MIDAS is used in The Livingston Centre with a screen located behind the reception desk. This screen displays all the meetings that are being held on a particular day for both their locations. The screen also includes a welcome message and the Centre’s own logo.
“MIDAS, along with the Digital Signage, has been a real time saver for our reception team!”
MIDAS Digital Signage in action at The Livingston Centre
On the benefits of having a Digital Signage system that directly interfaces with MIDAS, receptionist Debbie Clarke, comments;
“When I turn the TV screen on each morning there is no fussing around with the room booking schedule – it appears on the particular date showing all rooms that are booked, when the meetings are finished and/or have been deleted off of MIDAS they automatically disappear off of the TV screen! People who have booked space can see what room is booked and go to their meeting rooms without asking reception what room they are booked into. Most importantly MIDAS, along with the Digital Signage, has been a real time saver for our reception team!”
– Debbie Clarke, The Livingston Centre
Summing up the new Digital Signage Addon for MIDAS, Debbie simply says:
2 minute read time · Updated March 18, 2024 · First published August 1, 2013
We are pleased to announce the availability of two brand new addons for MIDAS – Web Calendars and Digital Signage.
These optional addons extend the capabilities of our web based room scheduling software with powerful new features. These latest two addons have been developed as a direct result of feedback from our customers as to additional functionality they’d like to see in our scheduling software.
MIDAS Addon: Web Calendars
With our optional Web Calendars addon you can quickly embed monthly overview calendars of your bookings directly and seamlessly into your own website – ideal if you’d like to display a “What’s on” calendar of events, to visitors to your web site, or provide a quick overview of a particular venue’s availability Read more… | Video Tutorial
MIDAS Addon: Digital Signage
The optional Digital Signage addon is a feature-rich signage solution offering real-time display of your ongoing and upcoming room bookings on TV screens around your site! Whether you’d like to display today’s bookings to visitors in your reception area, or have an individual screen outside each room just showing what’s currently taking place in that one room, our Digital Signage addon is for you! Read more… | Video Tutorial
How to get these addons
If you’re an existing customer running the latest build of MIDAS v4.03 (or later), you can add the Web Calendars and/or Digital Signage addons to your MIDAS via the upgrade site. If you’re not yet a MIDAS customer, you can include the Web Calendars and/or Digital Signage addons at time of purchase, or add either one to your MIDAS at a later date.
Once an addon has been purchased, it will then become available for one-click install within your MIDAS via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage Addons
There’s More! See full details of other addons available for MIDAS at mid.as/addons.
5 minute read time · Updated January 8, 2025 · First published June 1, 2013
We are pleased to announce the availability of MIDAS v4.03!
Read on to find out about the new features and improvements that made it into the latest update to our web based scheduling software.
New Addons
API Access
RSS Feeds
New Addons for MIDAS
Perhaps the most exciting new feature of MIDAS v4.03 is a new “addon” system. This may be accessed via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage Addons. This new feature allow you to extend the capabilities of your MIDAS through a range of optional addons.
Two brand new addons are initially available, to coincide with the release of v4.03. These are:
a much requested API (allowing developers to interface with MIDAS from their own software applications),
an RSS Feed addon (allowing MIDAS to automatically generate customized RSS/Atom data feeds from your bookings)
SPECIAL OFFER: For a limited time, existing customers can add either of these addons to their MIDAS for HALF PRICE!! – simply visit the upgrade page
New Invoice Settings
New Invoice Settings in MIDAS
We’ve introduced two new invoice-related settings to MIDAS for v4.03 to help you better keep track of your invoices! There’s now a setting that will prevent modification/deletion of bookings for which invoices have been created. A further setting has been added to prevent the deletion of invoices (once an invoice has been sent), until the invoice is paid in full. ..and that’s not it for improvements to invoicing, in v4.03, you can also now filter invoices by client too!
Show More on Booking “Blocks”
In previous versions of MIDAS, you could specify a single booking field to be shown on booking “blocks” in the grid, and a field to show, along with the times of the booking, in a tooltip when hovering over the block
With MIDAS v4.03, there’s now options to display two booking fields on blocks and two fields on corresponding tooltips!
Improved “Grid Layout” Printing
New Print Layout Options
In MIDAS v4.03, you can now generate even more versatile printouts of your bookings! We’ve given you the option to select, at time of printing, the booking field to be shown when printing bookings as a “grid”. Previously this had been fixed to show the name of the client/organization that each booking was for.
Performance Improvements
We constantly strive to make MIDAS as fast and efficient as possible. To that end a number of performance improvements have been made in v4.03. Various code optimizations have been found, and in places, the number of database queries has been reduced.
If you use “Watches“, one of the biggest performance improvements you’ll notice in v4.03, is that multiple bookings will be added/modified/deleted faster!
When emails are sent from MIDAS, this can take a second or so, as MIDAS (or rather the server itself) has to establish connections to a mail server and send data.
In earlier versions of MIDAS, when it came to watches, a separate email would be generated/sent for each individual booking that “triggered” the watch. So for example, if you had 3 users all “watching” a particular venue for new bookings and another user then adds a booking to that venue every day for 5 days, MIDAS would generate a total of 15 notification emails (five for each of the three users watching the particular venue).
However, now, in v4.03, the same operation would only generate 3 notification emails (one for each user, each email containing a list of all five bookings). This reduction in the volume of individual notification emails sent by MIDAS results in considerable improvement in performance and speed for customers who have “Watch” email notifications setup in their MIDAS system.
Our “cloud hosted” customers should also notice a small improvement on all page load times with MIDAS v4.03. This is due to a new internal setting that reduces certain re-directs. This should improve page load times by a few hundred milliseconds.
New “Pastel” theme
New Pastel Theme for MIDAS Room Booking Software
We’ve created a new, optional, “Pastel” theme to coincide with MIDAS v4.03. The new “Pastel” theme features soft, pastel shades, and may be seen in action in our live online demo. We’ve made the new “Pastel” theme compatible with any version of MIDAS from v4.00 onwards. So if you like it, why not download and install it to your MIDAS at mid.as/themes.
GUI Updates
As well as a new visual theme, a number of small updates to the GUI (Graphical User Interface) have been made for v4.03, including:
When “jumping” to a booking from a search result, the selected booking will be indicated in the grid (its border will temporarily flash)
When “jumping” to specific bookings (i.e. via Search or a “Client’s Other Bookings” link), relevant bookings are highlighted in the grid
The animated “working” indicator is now shown in more places to indicate activity (i.e. when deleting multiple bookings)
Issues Fixed
MIDAS v4.03 includes a cumulative roll-up of fixes for all known issues discovered since the initial release of v4.02
If you’re an existing user with an active Support Subscription you can update to this latest version right now via MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Update.
If your Annual Support Subscription has recently expired, don’t worry – you can quickly renew your subscription then get the update.
…and if we host MIDAS for you, there’s no need to do anything – we’ve already automatically updated you to v4.03! (you may still want to check out the new available addons though!)
If, however, you’re not yet using MIDAS for your organization’s scheduling, you can purchase securely through our website.
The MIDAS API is an optional addon for MIDAS, allowing you to interface directly with your MIDAS scheduling system from your own applications.
With our optional Web Calendars addon you can quickly embed monthly overview calendars of your bookings directly and seamlessly into your own website – ideal if you’d like to display a “What’s on” calendar of events, to visitors to your web site, or provide a quick overview of a particular venue’s availability 
The optional Digital Signage addon is a feature-rich signage solution offering real-time display of your ongoing and upcoming room bookings on TV screens around your site! Whether you’d like to display today’s bookings to visitors in your reception area, or have an individual screen outside each room just showing what’s currently taking place in that one room, our Digital Signage addon is for you! 
