Bookings shows available time slots even though it is booked in my calendar
I created a personal booking page. But I do not see the time slots displayed in my calendar and when I go to the booking page, all time are available completely not taking into account the meetings that are already in my calendar. Why in the name of god would you ever design a self booking function that does not look at existing meetings in the target calendar. Worked with google self scheduler and calendly and this is absolutely a non existing problem for both of these platforms. Now transitioned to 365 and I can't seem to get a simple feature as a self scheduler set up :( Attached a screenshot of all the available configuration options. So 2 questions: - I want to see the blocks in my calendar (attached an example of google self scheduler how it shows up in your calendar - it completely ignores meetings in my calendar and lets people book those slots leading to double bookings. Please help me out.
How to set up a booking with multiple staff?
Our office just switched to Office 365. I'm used to using calendar/booking software like Calendly etc. I find it easier to send people a booking link than to try to coordinate between multiple people. I need to send a booking link to an external customer but I need the available times to book to be where there is overlap between multiple staff members, and for when the booking is made, it alerts these multiple staff. For instance, I am trying to set up a meeting with an external client, my boss, and myself. I want the external client to be able to only book times that my boss and I are both available, and when they book I want it to include both my boss and myself in the booking. I tried to set up a booking and turned off the "choose staff" option, but instead of booking both of us, it only booked one of us. Is it possible to do what I want to do in the MS booking app?
Can you require an attachment (document, file upload) for Bookings?
I'm not a pro at Bookings, but like using the tool to help navigate/create calendar appointments. Is there a workaround anyone has found, that requires or allows the uploading of a file or document with new bookings in O365? I'd like the respective file to populate as an attachment in my Outlook Calendar for each new Booking made. In transparency, I started a request for this feature (https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/314907-microsoft-bookings/suggestions/39495616-add-the-option-of-requiring-an-attachment-or-uploa), but want to make sure I didn't naively overlook an existing way to do this. Is there a way anyone has found, preferably as a requirement, for a customer to attach or upload a file when scheduling a new calendar booking? Thanks in advance!
Stop emailing random people in my name!
I went into the "book with me" feature to attempt to fix its broken behavior (allowing meetings outside my normal work time -- another stupid bug that I'm not even talking about now). I updated my meeting profiles with explicit work hours and hit save. I have no idea what would cause this, but some step in this process caused TEN random people I correspond with to be sent a "Book time with me without back-and-forth discussions" email in my name. This is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. No feature in any product should silently sent emails in my name to anyone, let alone ten randomly chosen people I work with! I am apopleptic right now! This insane piece of garbage "feature" emailed the head of my department as well as the facilities department service account, so now I have a facilities ticket and a stack of confused people asking why I want to meet. I had to find these in my sent folder and reply to each apologizing and asking them to disregard. I hope the product manager or developer of this feature reads this: Your idea is bad and a complete embarrassment. Stop work immediately and find someone who actually knows how professionals in a business environment operate. They will inform you that nothing and no-one should send a message in person's name without clear and explicit authorization, and even with that authorization, never to randomly chosen people. I've never posted here before, because none of the myriad Microsoft bugs I've dealt with have ever screwed me over so stupidly and so publically. I will certainly never trust a new Outlook feature again.Bookings: Category is not saving
Hi Community, I am running a personal bookings page with different types of bookings. For administraton I use the online-site. When I created them, I added a category to them to make it visible in my calender "this has been made via bookings page". Now I wanted to change the color and it does not save. Even worse, the old color category was deleted while editing and I cannot add a new one. Suprisingly, everything else can be changed AND saved. There is no error message, the online site even reminds me to save after altering the category. But it does not do it. Using the teams-app (as suggested in other cases) did not solve it. Does anyone have any ideas..? Thanks and best regards - Markus
MS Booking: Customizing calendar subject/ title entry by adding custom field entry
Hello everyone, Does anyone here, know how to add additional description (similar to the person name) to the subject line of the MS booking system calendar entry? I make a lots of appointments with external parties and it makes it hard to know who is who after a while. I would like to add the person's company name to the subject. Thank you.Bookings Enhancement Request - Show Meeting Details & Custom Information
The reminders, notifications, and calendar appointments would be more useful if any details added to the Booking by the end user would appear. For example, we have custom fields that our customers fill in such as Name, Location, Customer Name, etc. In order to properly prepare for a meeting with an end user it would be helpful to have this information be included in the Outlook or Teams meeting reminder. Please see the example below of the outlook invite. From an efficiency standpoint compared to other software’s this information should be visible in the invite and reminder.
Show attendees in calendar entries from Bookings
When someone booked a meeting with me via MS Bookings, the calendar entry in my Outlook calendar does not show the user/mailaddress in the attendee list, as it would do when we invite each other via direct email. Therefore, it's hard for me to have an overview of who's part of the meeting. The calendar entry should at least have the user's mail address in the attendee list as a required attendee. On top of that, it would be good if I can also see the customer name in the subject of the calendar entry.
