Planners provide a way of planning and sharing long term activity information. Planners contain planner bookings which represent activity of one or more days in duration. A typical example of the usage of a planner would be a 'Holiday' planner. You can create a planner which keeps the holiday commitments of all members of the workgroup. This information becomes available to all OfficeTalk users for use in their own planning and scheduling.
OfficeTalk lets you use planners to show planner bookings through onto users' diaries. This makes it possible to bring together short term and long term information and display it in one view, the Diary view. OfficeTalk also lets you use planners to block out users' diaries. This lets meeting organisers use planner information and its association with users' diaries when choosing a suitable time to book a meeting.
Planner mode consists of two windows: a Key window and a Planner window. The Key window contains a list of keys each of which has a description, a colour and, optionally, a pattern. Planner bookings are shown in the Planner window as a coloured block spanning one or more days. Each planner booking must be associated with a key. A planner booking is created by selecting a key and then drawing the booking into the planner window.
