We’re making improvements to the “Booking Information” panel for MIDAS v4 with the addition of a new “History” tab.
Prior to v4, only two pieces of history information were saved for each booking. These were the original booking creation date/time and the user who created the booking, and the date, time and user who last modified the booking.
The new history tab improves on this, as it will now display a complete history trail for each new booking.
Every update that is made to a booking will be logged, together with the user who made the update and the date and time the update occurred.
The history panel will also log details if a booking is deleted, an invoice is generated for a booking, and indicate whether the booking resulted from a booking request!
In MIDAS v4 we’re making the process of moving/rescheduling bookings incredibly simple!!
Until now, if you needed to move a booking to a different venue, or perhaps postpone it until the following week, you’d have to click on the booking in the grid, select “Modify Booking”, then manually change the venue/dates/times on the “Modify Booking Form”. After that you’d have to proceed through the “Booking Availability” check before the booking is finally rescheduled – all in all requiring half a dozen or more mouse clicks and at least a couple of minutes as you went through the various steps.
In MIDAS v4 you can reschedule bookings in seconds… …simply “drag and drop” the existing booking to a new venue/time slot!
Display pending/provisional and deleted bookings in the grid!
Moving bookings is not all you can do from the improved booking grid in v4! You can now also show pending booking requests as well as recently deleted bookings in the booking grid too!
Pending booking requests can then be approved/queried/modified/rejected/locked direct from the booking grid with just a click:
..and deleted bookings can be restored in the same way too:
Generate Invoices directly from the grid!
Don’t want to generate an invoice when making a booking? No problem! In MIDAS v4 you can click a booking in the grid and instantly generate an invoice for that booking!
These exciting new improvements to the booking grid in MIDAS v4 will undoubtedly improve your productivity by streamlining the process of rescheduling bookings, approving requests, and recovering erroneously deleted bookings!
We’ve been busy developing a major new update to our scheduling software, MIDAS.
This update packed full of new and improved features, many of which have originated from ideas and suggestions from our existing users.
An often requested feature is to have the ability to “route” booking requests to different users, depending upon the venue being requested.
Currently, all booking requests received by your MIDAS system go into a central “pool”. From this pool, any user with the “Can Process Web Requests” permission can view, approve, query, modify, reject, or lock the requests.
In MIDAS v4 however, Booking Requests can be routed to different users based upon the venue that’s been requested!
You can essentially configure which requests go to which administrators. In an educational setting this would, for example, allow sports staff to manage requests for your sporting facilities. At the same time, office staff could separately manage incoming requests for your meeting rooms.
How it works…
In MIDAS v4, you’ll find a new “Managers” tab on the “Manage Venues” screen.
From this tab, you can assign one or more existing users to “manage” booking requests for the selected venue:
Assigning Venue Managers in MIDAS
Then, when a member of the public then makes a booking request for that venue, “managers” of that venue are sent an automated email notification by MIDAS. This informs them that a new pending booking request requires attention. These email notifications may be turned on/off at any time through the manager’s “Pending Booking Requests” screen.
The manager can then log in to MIDAS and go to their Pending Booking Requests screen. From here, they’ll see outstanding requests for all the venues they manage. Booking requests can be approved with a click of the mouse.
The Booking Request screen also offers additional functions. Requests can be modified – for instance, they can be moved to a different time, date, venue, etc. Requests can also be rejected, queried with the original requester, or locked. Locking a request prevents any other manager from processing the booking request whilst you’re dealing with it. For example, you may need to query something with the client before approving their request and don’t want another user approving their request in the interim.
We’ve been busy at MIDAS HQ for the past 6 months working on a major update to MIDAS. This update is packed full of new features and improvements. May of these are as a result of customer feedback and suggestions.
This major update, MIDAS version 4, is anticipated to be available this Summer. But because we’re so excited about it, over the next few weeks, we’re going to be blogging about some of the new features and improvements to give you a first look at what’s in store! …and we can promise you, you won’t be disappointed!
New for MIDAS v4: Weekly & Multiple Day Views
In earlier versions of our room booking web app, you could view your bookings in two ways – in a “daily” view and a “monthly” overview. The daily view displayed bookings for a single selected calendar date. The monthly view gave a quick overview of bookings taking place during a calendar month. One request we often hear from customers is for there to also be a “week” view as well. Well, for MIDAS v4, we’ve gone one better!!
In MIDAS v4 you will be able to view the now familiar booking grid over a date range you control of between 1-14 days on one single screen!
Here are the very first screenshots from MIDAS v4 showing the new booking grid:
We’re making improvements to the “Booking Information” panel for MIDAS v4 with the addition of a new “History” tab.
