Alerts & Reminders

Reminders, Messaging, and Watches in MIDAS

Staying on top of what is coming up matters in any booking operation. MIDAS includes several notification tools - personal reminders for your own bookings, internal messaging between users, and a more powerful "watches" feature for monitoring specific activity in the system.

Booking Reminders

Any booking in MIDAS can have one or more reminders attached. You specify when the reminder should fire - a number of minutes, hours, or days before the booking starts. When that time arrives, the reminder appears as a notification the next time you log in. Optionally, reminders can also be sent by email, useful for adding the event to a personal calendar in Outlook or Google Calendar.

Internal Messaging

MIDAS includes a basic internal messaging system for communication between users. You can send a message to any individual user or group, and they will see it the next time they log in. Messages can optionally trigger an email notification. Messages can have an expiry time, disappearing automatically after a set period even if unread.

Watches

Watches are a more sophisticated notification tool. Rather than attaching a reminder to a specific booking, a watch monitors the system for certain types of activity and sends a notification when that activity occurs - for example, when a specific resource is added to any booking, when a consumable drops below a stock threshold, or when a room approaches its maximum occupancy.

Watch notifications can go to any email address, not just MIDAS user accounts. A notification about refreshments can go directly to catering staff who do not have a MIDAS login.

Desktop Notifications

If you grant browser notification permission, MIDAS can send desktop alerts for reminders, messages, and watch notifications - even when the MIDAS tab is not in focus.

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