We know that working under tight deadlines leads to childish thinking: the greater the time pressure, the more we revert to mental models from childhood. Research also shows that we predictably make bad decisions when we’re short on time. In Scarcity, Mullainathan and Shafir tweak classic experiments in behavioral economics by introducing various kinds of […]
Resource scheduling
Default Durations for each Resource
KC Embrey has just published a new custom action for assigning default values to new appointments: this is great for giving each resource in your org a default duration or status. This action works in any calendar source, including FileMaker and Salesforce. Here’s what it looks like in action: While you can usually set defaults […]
Breakout Your Schedule by Any Field
Balance Your Workload Now breakout your schedule by calendar, by project, or by any custom field. This new option in DayBack’s horizon view means that any field in any of your calendars can become a swimlane. Here’s a short video of this in action: As you can see, breakout works great with Calendar Analytics. Plot […]
Preventing Conflicts in DayBack for FileMaker 19
DayBack Calendar does a great job visualizing conflicts in your schedule. But sometimes you may want to alert users when they’re creating a conflict. We’ve created a simple script you can paste into your copy of DayBack Calendar to help notify users when they’re creating a conflict. Here’s the script in action: Add Conflict Detection […]
Using DayBack with Salesforce Scheduler Part 2 – Appointment Availability
This is the second in a series of posts integrating DayBack Calendar with the Salesforce Scheduler app. In part one, we looked at how to customize DayBack to reflect Salesforce Scheduler’s data model. This article will examine how to display a particular Service Resource’s availability in DayBack when scheduling a Service Appointment. With this integration […]