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Day 2 Afternoon

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Setting up Venues and Calendar Types

  • Setting up new venues, meeting rooms, dressing rooms, rehearsal halls
  • Updating Code Tables - Calendar Types
  • Updating Global Colors settings in the Calendar
  • Assigning Delegate Employees to Employee Preferences

Tasks (Continued)

  • Using your real life facility management cases, start adding tasks
  • Adding attachments to tasks

Resources & Inventory Management

  • Creating Resources
  • Defining Resource classifications
  • Creating Inventory
  • Determining profit versus non-profit costing
  • Setup of G/L Accounts for Cost of Goods Sold versus Income Accounts

Tasks (Continued)

  • Adding Resources/Inventory to tasks

Break Time


Project Management

  • Creating a New Project
  • Dragging existing tasks from the calendar into a Project
  • Adding new tasks to the project, then showing then on the calendar
  • Assigning Participants to the task, making them apart of the Project

Gantt Chart for Viewing and Project Management

  • Turning the Project into a Gantt Chart view

Project Management (Continued)

  • Use an Existing Project as a template and Duplicate it for 'next time' (very powerful)

Tasks (Continued)

  • Assigning Venues to tasks
  • Adding Resources/Inventory (billable and non-billable) to tasks
  • Adding Participants to tasks

Data Exporting/Importing

  • Review if there is any data to be imported (volunteers, positions, resources, projects, tasks, etc.)

Practice/Workshop Time

  • Go play with what you have learned and keep updating your projects

Meeting with Executive Director - Review of Onsite Training

  • Status update of where we are in the training process
  • Outstanding tasks that need to be completed
  • Missed topics that were part of the base curriculum and reasons why they were missed
  • Possible options (cancel future topics, shortened time allocation to future topics, postpone a future topic for another onsite training session in the future) to catch up on any missed topics

Data Exporting (IT Department)

  • Based on the existing scheduling software, export data that could potentially be imported into Theatre Manager (Projects, Volunteers, Positions, Resources, Inventory, Personnel Activities, Billing Rates, etc.)
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