A New Name

It’s been many months since the last phpScheduleIt release and a lot has happened since then. The biggest change is that I decided to rename the project to Booked. I’ve never been completely happy with the previous name and received a lot of feedback about it. I landed on Booked because it succinctly gives you and idea of what the product is and it’s easy to remember.

A New Company

The next big change is the formation of Twinkle Toes Software. Words typed here on this blog cannot express how excited I am to finally make this announcement. I’m an entrepreneur at heart and have wanted to start my own business for a while. Booked gives me an incredible opportunity to bring that dream to life. We’ll be offering professional services such as support, custom development, and hosting. We’re here to stand behind Booked and help it grow. I also have to thank my good friend Mandy for helping me with the website design and logo.

There is plenty more to come including the launch of booked website, the announcement of our hosting partner and some great new features and enhancements to the Booked community.

New Features

Oh, and I forgot to mention that there are a ton of great new features with this release! Here’s what you’re going to get with Booked 2.5. You can download it here

• Application renamed from phpScheduleIt to Booked Scheduler (why?)
• Added ability to reserve resource groups
• Added ability to filter schedule resources
• Added ability to specify resource type
• Added enhanced resource status management
• Added ability to specify buffer time between reservations (per resource)
• Custom attributes now appear on all reservation emails and balloons
• Added ability set custom attributes for an individual resource, user or resource type
• Added ability manage config files for all plugins through the UI
• Added ability to set reservation colors per user
• Added ability to subscribe to reservation Atom feeds
• Added ability update blackouts
• Added ability attach multiple items to a reservation
• Added Shibboleth authentication plugin (thank you to the folks at UCSF)
• Added ability to email admin for all new account creations
• Updates and cleanup on the API
• Removed password regex setting in favor of password complexity settings
• Changed schedule drop downs to exclude schedules if the user does not have permission to any of the resources belonging to it
• Added wide and condensed booking page views
• Added option to allow all users access to reports
• Added setting for default ‘from’ email address
• Changed the reservation page to default to the minimum resource reservation time
• Changed reservation update to grant permissions to all users if auto-assign permissions is being turned on
• Fixed showing ‘Private’ when the current user is the reservation owner
• Fixed bug where recurring reservations across daylight savings time boundaries were not being updated to the correct time
• Fixed bug where schedule would freeze on certain daylight savings boundaries
• Fixed pagination bug on manage reservations page
• Fixed bug allowing invitees to join a reservation that was already at capacity
• Fixed bug not enforcing resource cross day reservation constraint
• Fixed bug where quota rules were being enforced cumulatively for resources on a schedule
• Fixed bug where reminders were being sent for deleted reservations
• Updated all mysql_* calls to mysqli_*
• Numerous other minor fixes and updates