Scheduling Multiple Rooms at One Location

How do you schedule multiple rooms at one location for one event?

auna wrote:How do you schedule multiple rooms at one location for one event?

In the list of rooms, use Ctrl+Click to select additional rooms.

aebrown wrote:In the list of rooms, use Ctrl+Click to select additional rooms.

Thank you very much. I just discovered that you can also press Shift+Click to select all rooms in the list sequence and for Macs it is Command+Click to select multiple rooms not in the list sequence. I learn something new each day.

In v1 each resource had a box we were able to check to specify where/when to reserve the event. In v2, though the resources are listed, there are no such boxes so no way to reserve a resource. Help on this please? Thank you!

lesleyann wrote:In v1 each resource had a box we were able to check to specify where/when to reserve the event. In v2, though the resources are listed, there are no such boxes so no way to reserve a resource. Help on this please? Thank you!

There's no box, but you can still select a resource by highlighting it. You can highlight multiple resources by holding the ctrl key as you click. (Or use the shift key to select all the items from the first previously selected item). That's a standard Windows method of selecting items. Apple uses something simular.

I am a bldg schdlr; in v1 there were checkboxes next to each resource that you clicked on when reserving that resouce (room etc) in the bldg when scheduling an event; in v2 no checkboxes exist so no resources can be reserved at the time of scheduling. can you help with this please?
thank you.

lesleyann wrote:I am a bldg schdlr; in v1 there were checkboxes next to each resource that you clicked on when reserving that resouce (room etc) in the bldg when scheduling an event; in v2 no checkboxes exist so no resources can be reserved at the time of scheduling. can you help with this please?

Note: This was originally posted to an unrelated thread (https://tech.lds.org/forum/showthread.p ... -locations) so I moved it to a relevant thread. See the earlier response for the answer to your question.

Does it still work to Left-click + drag on the mouse through the locations list as well to select multiple rooms? (I can't test it anymore.)
Anyway, I'm hoping for a return of the checkboxes so we won't have to answer this as many times....

(update: yes: for rooms that are adjacent in the list, a Left mouseclick, hold and drag will select multiple adjacent rooms.)

Based on the number of reports in these forums of the users having difficulty with this it only makes sense to restore the checkbox as a method of selecting.

It would be nice if they did so, but I suspect the reason for going with a list is to avoid setting a upper limit on the number of rooms a location could have. That creates issues in the layout of the form. I'm not sure how hard it is to have check boxes within scroll windows on a web form.

a notation on the form explaining how to select multiple rooms should alleviate this problem

jdlessley wrote:Based on the number of reports in these forums of the users having difficulty with this it only makes sense to restore the checkbox as a method of selecting.

Here, Here! We've had many, many complaints already about people asking how to choose multiple rooms since the disappearance of the "check box" interface. Please restore the checkboxes!

kd7mha wrote:a notation on the form explaining how to select multiple rooms should alleviate this problem

Agreed! Adding check-boxes back may be a big coding task, but adding a simple explanation beside it would be just as effective.

I wish the boxes were back too. Although ctrl does work, that's what I've been using. It's harder to train, particularly the older members of my ward how to do it.

As we have been training each of the Wards in our Stake, V2 has made it a little more difficult and frustrating to schedule multiple rooms in a building. In V1 all you had to do was place a check in the box next to the room you wanted. In V2 in order to select multiple items you have to hold the Ctrl key down while selecting the resources you need. The problem is if you don't do that you loss what you have just select and an reality you only end up selecting one. If members don't know that they become frustrated when they think they have scheduled the cultural hall and Kitchen. My recommendation is to place the check box back in, or revise the program to allow multiple selections withou holding the Ctrl key down.

mmkids6 wrote:My recommendation is to place the check box back in, or revise the program to allow multiple selections without holding the Ctrl key down.

I moved your post into an existing thread on this very topic. So you can see that you have plenty of company on this topic!

I certainly agree with the recommendation to restore the check boxes for scheduling multiple resources. I would disagree with allowing multiple selections without holding down the Ctrl key -- that would be a non-standard implementation that would simply confuse a different set of users.