Outlook Calendar Room and Resource Booking for WordPress

Description

The “Outlook Calendar Room and Resource Booking for WordPress” plugin is used to reserve rooms or resources within an organization.

If you have a conference room, company car, or equipment that everyone needs to use, then you need to come up with a way to make those resources reservable to everyone. The best way to do that is to create a room or equipment mailbox in Microsoft 365 for each resource. You might create one for your first floor conference room, media equipment, or a moving truck.

Room and Resources/Equipment mailboxes:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/manage/room-and-equipment-mailboxes

The below shortcode configuration will show a calendar with the availability of specific rooms and resources that can be booked/reserved.

{o365_outlook_booking id="room-booking" template='rooms_booking.php' timezone="Eastern Standard Time" user_id="" resource_id="" booking_button=""  businessdays="1,2,5,4"  starttime="08"  endtime="19.30"  color="[email protected]:red,[email protected]:orange" mthviewdaylimit="4"}

Features

• Book/Reserve specific rooms and resources within an organisation.
• Booking requests can go through an approval process before confirming (custom solution).
• Specify the days that are available for booking during a week.
• Mark unavailable and previously booked time slots with the text “busy” for privacy.
• Block double booking – Users can’t book a date / time if already booked.
• Define business work hours so bookings/reservations can’t be made outside of that time frame.
• Ability to differentiate between rooms and resources by defining their own specific colors.
• Custom filter search – adjust filter drop downs to quickly check resource availability.
• Simple and customize booking form – just pick the resource, start and end then save!
• Email alerts – reservation confirmation and reminder at reservation time.

Some reasons to use this solution:

• Great for adding organizational Outlook Rooms and Resources to your website that you want to be hosted from your office 365 outlook service, that could also be related to other business processes in office 365.
• Outlook Rooms and Resources can be created and modified from the office 365 outlook mobile application provided by Microsoft.
• Outlook Rooms and Resources can be configured to show publicly or can be private, requiring the user to login to view the events.

Requirements:

• Office 365 with Outlook calendar service.
• Office 365 User with Global Administrator role.
• WordPress Website with Administrator access.
• Some CSS tweaking.