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SharePoint list Calendar double booking
- Hi!
It's better if you build a PowerApps to handling and booking the room. Reason for this is that you can't block double booking in a calender i SharePoint
There is a template you can use:
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/office-template-book-a-room-now-available/
mymediahelper SharePoint cannot - and has never been able to - prevent double bookings in the calendar. That's why NicolasKheirallah suggested Power Apps. The end user might not be able to build an app, and you might not want them to, but in your IT department you've probably got people who know how to do it. I built a desk booking app in Power Apps with a SharePoint list as the backend which worked across 16 offices for 3 years, with over 30,000 bookings and it was impossible for bookings to clash. It can be done; just don't expect the SharePoint calendar to prevent clashes!
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)
Rob_Elliott Yet I'm able to do it.
mymediahelper My company could never achieve it as far back as SP2010. So show how an out-of-the-box SharePoint calendar can prevent clashes - no add-ons, no 3rd party tools, just out-of-the-box.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)- Perhaps we're talking about two seperate things. I just go into the settings to the item choice and suppress using a choice twice. That's comes up with an error message when trying to book at the same time. When they go "ADD" in Calendar and pick a conference room in this case they can't book the same one for the same time. I do it all the time so it makes me think we may be on different pages. And once again. Not everyone has an IT Department. And not everyone is going to know how to make automations or workflows so telling people to do that is silly unless you're a big company and have those kinds of resources.
