EDIT 4/15/2010: Fixed two typos in examples. The process of finding a conference room in the building you want to meet and then hoping it is available can be a time-consuming process. Well this i...
Published Apr 15, 2010
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The display names of the rooms demonstrate the need for a better search engine for the Room button. Why place room capacity and room features in the display name when there are resource fields designed specifically for capacity and room feature lists?, because the search tool doesn't search correctly for capacity nor for custom room attributes set for the rooms.
This 'feature' only serves to cause more work for administrators who now need to also setup and populate the RoomLists, not a big deal when you only have a few buildings, but a huge problem when you have thousands of buildings.
We are populating 5000+ room mailboxes from a facilities database with location, room capacity and room equipment/feature lists using the correct fields as they were designed to be used, but still nothing to utilize this information from the Rooms button for searching for an appropriate sized and featured room.
So for me No I don't like the feature, it is just causing us more work and will only serve to add to the confusion for users when they try to book rooms.
This 'feature' only serves to cause more work for administrators who now need to also setup and populate the RoomLists, not a big deal when you only have a few buildings, but a huge problem when you have thousands of buildings.
We are populating 5000+ room mailboxes from a facilities database with location, room capacity and room equipment/feature lists using the correct fields as they were designed to be used, but still nothing to utilize this information from the Rooms button for searching for an appropriate sized and featured room.
So for me No I don't like the feature, it is just causing us more work and will only serve to add to the confusion for users when they try to book rooms.