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    Calendaring & Scheduling solutions

    Hi,
    The application I'm building requires a calendaring & scheduling (C&S) component. Specifically, my users will need to be able to schedule activities, meetings and appointments in a group calendar (essential). Ideally when scheduling appointments and meetings there should be some form of conflict checking and it would also be nice to be able to schedule meeting resources too such as a meeting room or overhead projector (desirable).
    My questions are:
    1). Can this be achieved "natively" within Alpha Five and, if so, has someone already done this? As I am new to Alpha Five programming I am prepared to purchase the code for such an add-on if someone has already invented this wheel.
    2). If a ready made solution does not (yet) exist, can anyone recommend a third party solution? For example it would be ideal if there were some kind of "connector" between Alpha Five and MS Outlook whereby I could create the scheduling events from within my application and then have them appear in the user's MS Outlook calendar.
    Many thanks in advance for any recommendations and advice you may have to help me tackle this.
    PS: I took a look at the Calendar & Toolbox add-in, but that doesn't appear to have the depth of functionality required for this project.

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    RE: Calendaring & Scheduling solutions

    Kenneth,

    You may find some of the articles on Learn Alpha will help. I believe there is a scheduling document in 3 parts but it may not be as in depth as you need.

    Take a look at: Learn Alpha

    Good luck and welcome to the Alpha5 community,
    Jerry Gray

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      #3
      RE: Calendaring & Scheduling solutions

      I am working on a similar scheduling application. Ideally integrating into Outlook is the prefered method. How is outlook handling scheduling?

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        #4
        Hi - I am also looking into a similar scheduling solution. Any suggestions based on what you were able to find out?

        Thanks, Traci
        Traci Wright

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          #5
          I recently answered a survey Alpha did on this specific issue. I believe they are working on a CRM that will integrate with A5. I would think it would be available sometime soon, but don't quote me on this. I also could use a CRM that integrates with my DB.
          Kevin G. Timberlake
          Marvel Illusions

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            #6
            Re: Calendaring & Scheduling solutions

            What hapenned to this effort? We are also looking for a CRM solution, integrated with Outlook.

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              #7
              Re: Calendaring & Scheduling solutions

              I responded to an Alpha Five survey in 2005, when they were investigating the feasibility of creating a CRM application.

              Their survey appeared in Volume 1 issue 49 of the Alpha Newsletter dated 08-24-2005. I never heard anything more about the project.

              Considering that they have successfully developed a reporting tool for QuickBooks, this may be their next application initiative.

              I sure would like to see it sooner rather than later. Anybody else hear any skuttlebut about CRM? or know of a good CRM package built with Alpha Five which can be customized by developer types?

              Bob
              Pittsburgh

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                #8
                Re: Calendaring & Scheduling solutions

                CRM covers tons of territory. Many questions would need to be answered before creeating one(expecially a universal one). It would have to be huge.

                There is a calendar program in Dr Peter Waynes new book. I would suggest it could be worked into your CRM packages with not too much hassel.

                I have a vacation package with a calendar that prints and does color changes if more that one person is scheduled for a particular day and a different color if 3 are scheduled and so on to a level of five(i think). If somebady wants it, I will spend the time and break it out of my CRM for them to try. WARNING: it takes a lot of fields, so I have to print it in 2 passes. No one seemed to mind though.
                Dave Mason
                [email protected]
                Skype is dave.mason46

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