Products.PloneBooking 2.2.3

Required products

• Plone 3.1.x

Installing PloneBooking

• with easy install

  easy_install Products.PloneBooking

• with buildout, just add Products.PloneBooking in your egg list then

  binbuildout

• Use portal_quickinstaller to install the PloneBooking in ZMI (or use plone_setup in pmi)

Overview

PloneBooking proposes several content types for Plone: a booking center that contains bookable objects and bookings. You can do some configuration in your booking center like choosing the default view or determining types and categories for bookable objects.

How to book objects ?

1. Add a booking on a bookable object.

• There are two methods :

• Browse the calendar and click on the ‘+’ in one of the cells.

• Click “add booking” on a bookable object.

• Then :

• fill out the form: title (not necessary), your name and email.

• Choose an interval for your booking.

• You might want to add a comment.

• Validate. Perhaps there is an other booking for the same object at the same time. If so change your request.

2. Adding periodicity settings to your booking (Wich will regularly duplicate your booking).

• Select your booking in your calendar or in the listing view.

• Click on the periodicity tab.

• There are 3 kinds of periodicity.

• Set the finishing date of your periodicity.

• Click “display results”. It will show you every booking to create.

• Click “Create bookings” if you agree with the results.

• Note:

• The first booking isn’t shown as it’s your original booking.

• Some might be already booked. Select an other date or interval by coming back on the ‘edit’ tab.

3. Removing a booking

• Come back to your booking throught the calendar view or listing view.

• Click “Retract”

• That’s it, your booking has been removed.

• Bookings you’ve just created can be in a pending state. (depending how your booking center has been set up). Just wait for a moderator to validate it.

How to install and configure it ?

1. Uncompress it in your Products/ folder of your plone instance.

2. Install it via “Plone Site” -> “Plone Setup” -> “Add / Remove Products”: Select PloneBooking then click “Install”

3. Add a booking center through the Plone Interface. (Adding a Booking Center through the ZMI won’t work).//

• Write a short description about your booking service.

• Add the kind of ressources we might book.

• Add categories of your ressources (not especially needed).

• Select in wich kind of display you want to see your bookings (in a listing or a calendar).

• Select listings available for a whole day, week, month or a year.

• Choose the interval your calendar will display by day.

• If you wish, choose custom colors to display ‘pending’ and ‘booked’ bookings.

• Choose if you want to wait for a moderator to publish or not your bookings.

• You’ll have to publish this object to allow members to add their bookings.

4. Add a bookable object in your booking center.

• Set the name of your item.

• Fill out a short description of you object.

• Choose the kind of ressource and the category corresponding to your object.

• Fill out a full text for more information.

• Note: Your booking center and bookable objects might have to be published to let members to add bookings. (Depending how you set them up)

PloneBooking Content Types

• BookingCenter: it is the main container. You can create one or more BookingCenter on a plone site.

• BookableObject: this is a ressource that users could book (like a room for example).

• Booking: you create this kind of objet to book a BookableObject.

Additional tools

• BookingTool

A tool is installed by the installer. It provides mainly some datemanagement methods.

Credits

Concept, development and tests

The Ingeniweb team http://www.ingeniweb.com

Translations

Dutch by Sander van Geloven <sander@atopia.nl>

Italian by Vincenzo Barone <vincenzo.barone@abstract.it>