Public Google Calendar that staff has Read/Write access to. It works well, it just depends what you want. GC has a ok API and it should be easy enough to write a Bash script that pulls in the calendar every so often and checks for event name changes. This works best when managing smaller groups! (Another option is a excel)
Riley Childs
Junior and Library Tech Manager
Charlotte United Christian Academy
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On Sep 10, 2013, at 7:00 AM, Ryan Eby <ryaneby_at_GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> I'm not directly involved with scheduling thankfully, but we have had
> quite a few systems including excel, calendars, etc.
>
> One we are trying now is https://www.schedulesource.com/
>
> It is definitely not polished and suffers from feature bloat but the
> bloat is kind of what people wanted to try. It lets people enter their
> availability and preferences and also allows you to set up rules (how
> many shifts/hours/weekends certain labor groups can do, etc). It will
> then autofill schedules for you which you can then manually tweak.
> Also allows individuals to trade shifts within the rules you set up.
> About a million other features though after the initial learning it
> was easy for people to ignore everything else and get used to their
> workflow.
>
> I'm sure there are better things out there depending on your
> requirements but for our schedulers initial requirements this has
> worked better than previous systems at least.
>
> Eby
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Shearer, Timothy J
> <tshearer_at_email.unc.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Anyone happy with their solutions for scheduling service points? Even
>> moderately happy?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
Received on Tue Sep 10 2013 - 07:17:05 EDT