We make extensive use of our Reservation database, with over 70 rooms and almost 50 other resources (projectors, easels, DVD players and so on). From Lotus Notes, it’s easy to reserve, for instance, a room, an easel, and a projector all at once. The problem is, once reserved, these resources are no longer linked. Rooms are approved either automatically by the database or by the room owners; resource requests are forwarded to their owners.
The problem is that the Resource request does not include the information about where the resource is needed. Even though they are linked in the users’ calendars, they are separate and unrelated requests to the resource owners. Is there any way to maintain a link between them – or at least have them refer to the other in some way??
We’d really like to make more extensive use of this, but if we can’t keep the room related to the other resources requested, it’s not going to help much.