What's New in Archibus V.26.1?
Hoteling Improvements (Workplace and Create Booking)
As employees return to work during the COVID pandemic, many sites are implementing a hoteling or "hot-desking" strategy rather than have employees return to assigned seats. With more and more sites using the Archibus hoteling features in which users book a seat for temporary use, customers have suggested improvements to the hoteling procedures. We have added two new parameters; both apply to workspace bookings made with Workplace and the Create Booking task.
Additionally, we have made hoteling changes that apply only when booking a seat from Workplace. See Workplace Hoteling Improvements.
Enforce Full-Day Bookings (UserVoice Idea)
As part of their return-to-work strategy, many companies are implementing a hoteling solution as the primary way that employees occupy seats.
In this situation, employees need rooms for the entire day. Moreover, during this time of reduced travel, you will likely have few visitors or off-site employees who are attending a meeting on site and need working space for only half the day. Accordingly, you may wish to enforce a policy that rooms can be booked only for a full day by setting the FullDayBookingsOnly application parameter. With this setting, Workplace and the Create Booking view hide the options for Full Day / Morning / Afternoon. All bookings are automatically for the full day.
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Limit the Number of Days in Advance that Employees Can Book Seats (UserVoice Idea)
To better control the limited available desk resources, Workplace administrators can limit the number of days in advance that employees can book seats by setting the MaxDaysAhead parameter. Limiting advance bookings can lead to better use of space as employees are not tying up seats far in advance when they actually might not need these seats when the booked date arrives.
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