May 15 2020 01:09 PM
When creating a new appointment, can you make the Select Staff drop down mandatory and remove the Anyone option?
May 21 2020 01:45 AM
@Donald Mosteller Thanks for highlighting this. We really value this feedback. We offer this feature for people who do don't want any particular staff assigned or would be okay with any staff. Hence we provide this option. We have seen this use case being already adopted by many of our customers. Thanks for your interest and support to Bookings!"
May 21 2020 04:16 PM
@Radhika_Khetan_MSFT For clarification; are you saying that there is currently not a way to disable the "Anyone" option in the drop down?
May 21 2020 07:26 PM - edited May 21 2020 07:28 PM
Hi,
Unfortunately Microsoft Bookings doesn't offer that feature (pretty sad!) but there are a few way around. 1. You can set you staff working hours accordingly. For example, if you have 3 staff members and each appointment is 1 hr. You can set person 1- 9-10, person2-10-11,person3-11-12......and so on. The switch off option to choose staff. This way only that particular staff member gets booked for selected time.
2. Create service with each staff name. SO the customer can see if their preferred staff is available. If not, they can see who is available.
These are not the ideal options but might work. Hope that helps. :)