Integrating Tasks and Calendars

The key for optimizing the calendar is the task – everything centers around what you do on this window. Its much like Market Circle’s Daylite, Outlook or iCal – except it does much more and spreads the integration outside your organization

Here we see the Theatre Manager Task window and 2 different Calendars. The common items on all three windows are:

• Date
• Time
• Description
• Colours

In this picture, a Task Type called “Attached to Event” is selected. It is a code table entry defining what type of task this is.

In the database 8 standard types of Calendar Type Tasks have been defined:

1. Project
2. Task
3. Unattached
4. Attached to Event
5. Attached to Performance
6. To Do
7. Meeting
8. Background

From those standard 8 types, you can create unlimited number of custom named task types to suit your needs. The goal is to allow you to customize the view, colours and edits within that customized task. There is no limit to the number of Task Types you can create. You can easily extend this to create an Usher item. It then becomes a calendar mechanism to allow you to quickly pull out or show only the ‘sound engineer’ tasks/calendar items.

Click here, for more information on entering Task types and associating them to calendars.