Locate: Calendar > Inventory > Assets
Prerequisites:
- You have Admin permissions or restricted permissions to View calendars (to view the page), View items, products and assets (to view the data within the page) and Manage events and rules (in order to enable/disable assets and remove maintenance events).
- Your account must have access to products (Inventory > Products), which is a key feature of our newest version of Checkfront.
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New to Checkfront - Products ✨ Products (Inventory > Products) is the successor feature to (Inventory > Items) and is available in our newest version of Checkfront. Not yet on our newest version and interested in upgrading? Please contact our Technical Support team for more information. Discover more product-related help articles here: Products (New). |
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Looking for information on the Inventory Calendar for products (Calendar > Product > Product tab)? Check out the following series of articles for more information: |
Overview
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Welcome to the latest iteration of our Asset Calendar!
Thank you for all your contributions to this phase of our product. We have taken your feedback into consideration and updated our Asset Calendar with your ideas in mind.
Our new Asset Calendar should more closely meet your needs. Having said that, we continue to welcome your feedback as we aim to continuously improve!
Benefits of the Update
Back to topThe new, improved experience provides the following benefits...
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A modern, consistent experience that is familiar to other booking and calendar experiences in the app.
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View all or multiple asset groups at a time. Previously, only a single group of Assets could be viewed at once. Now, you can view all Assets, or leverage our new filters to select what you need to see.
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A new week view. The Asset Calendar can now be viewed by Day or Week. The Asset Calendar detects if Time or Timeslots are being used, to offer either a more compact 7-day view or a granular time view to better show smaller durations.
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Collapsed or expanded views are remembered. We remember which Categories and groups have been expanded, so views remain in your preferred position.
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An assignment panel with direct booking access post-assignment. Manage the Assignment by triggering the Assignment panel on the Daily Manifest for the Asset being reviewed, and post-assignment, review the booking that is consuming Assets.
What's New?
Back to topHere are some more highlights of what has changed within the Asset Calendar.
| What's New? | New Calendar Experience |
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New Booking |
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Create Staff-side New Bookings for the day being viewed directly from the Asset Calendar.
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Manage Assets |
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Manage Assets to make adjustments on the Asset Management page with a single click! |
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Quick Date Navigation |
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Quick date navigation with the addition of the quick previous (<) and next (>) day buttons. You no longer need to continuously open the date picker to change a single date! You can also now go back in time! Review Assets and assignments on any date in the past. The timeline is no longer restricted. |
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Day or Week Views
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The Asset Calendar can now be viewed by Day with time intervals or Week with intervals by date. The view detects if Time or Timeslots is being used, to offer either a more compact 7-day view or a granular time view to better show smaller durations. TIP: Use your browser Zoom feature to zoom out the page to view more increments as needed. |
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Important: Disabling or enabling an Asset using the toggle on the left-hand side of each Asset's row now disables or enables the Asset for either a Day or a Week, based on your currently selected view. |
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Persistent Time Header
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As you scroll the page vertically and your account has a lot of Asset Categories or Asset Pools, the time header now follows along. You can then see more on the page without losing the date or time reference. |
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Asset Category Filter |
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A new Asset Category filter has been added so that you focus on select Categories of Assets. |
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Both the Category and Asset Pool filters now support multi-select filtering to provide extra flexibility into which Assets are displayed. |
| Asset Category Name Displayed |  |
The Asset Pool filter also displays the Asset Category name to better group and visualize the Asset Pools within Categories for improved discoverability. |
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The Asset Pool filter is now dynamic based on selections, only displaying options according to what Categories are displayed. |
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If viewing the current date, a time indicator (red) helps immediately orient you with what’s happening live now. |
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Dynamic Calendar |
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The new calendar is more dynamic! The start and end times for the day are now determined dynamically, so that only times that are relevant to your business display! The start and end times correspond to your business hours (Manage > Setup > Calendar), for example, starting at 09:00 AM and ending at 0:5:00 pm. Products can be configured to be available outside business hours so as Categories and Asset Pools are expanded, the start and end times are dynamically updated based on the first and last assignments for the day if they sit outside of business hours. |
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| Colour-coded Assignments |
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Assignments are colour-coded as follows...
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Tooltips have also been added to better communicate booking durations and provide more information up-front and at a glance.
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| Continues to Next Day Indicators |  |
Multi-day and multi-night Assignments now have indicators as small visual cues that the assignment continues to the next day. |
| Maintenance Time |  |
Maintenance Time is now represented by a clock icon. |
| Side Panel with Booking Details and Assignment Options |  |
Our new side panel provides a quick snapshot view of the booking details including the option to Manage the Assignment which links to the Daily Manifest for Assignment. The side panel is now a persistent and familiar experience across all our calendars! |
| Pending Assignments |  |
The pending Assignments notifications have been improved to...
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