2. How would a photographer's studio use it to coordinate scheduling equipment, traveling and client jobs?
It seems that you need to schedule all of these things together. If you are travelling to a client site, you probably need certain equipment. So maybe a workflow is that you create a client job, see if that involves travelling (somehow linking/manipulating the travel calendar), and indicating which equipment is needed (from a bunch of calendars for the various pieces of equipment). So I'd think you'd want to be able to see all the various calendars involved at once (there might be a lot). This seems like a case that has pretty serious constraints amongst the calendars, at least if you want to do "I need to do a shoot at Jones' in Indiana before Dec 14, 2005, and I need this camera, those lenses, these lights, and those batteries. Now tell me when I can go".
We I've seen many scenarios where there is 1 calendar for everybody's travel. And I could imagine overlaying that with one other calendar for all resources. As in each resource doesn't need it's own calendar. So when you travel and need to "check out" resources, you look to see if anyone else has checked out any resources for the same time period and look in the Notes field to see what they are.
Which resources are "out" are not kept explicitly in the system. ie. you couldn't query Chandler to find out. But the information is there for people who look at.
It's not perfect, though arguably easier to use than having to manage a separate calendar for every lens, camera and tripod. I doubt that most users would bother doing that. AND it's a big improvement over having to send an email every time you schedule a shoot to see if anyone else has reserved equipment. |
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