Introduction to the asset calendar

Read this introduction to the Asset Calendar, including how assets are organized within the calendar and how to add new Staff-side bookings and access the Daily Manifest to manage your assets.

The entire series of articles can be accessed at the side and bottom of this page, where you can learn more about the full management capability of the Asset Calendar.

• Overview of the asset calendar
• Navigating and filtering the Asset Calendar
• Accessing booking information and managing assignments from the asset calendar

Accessing the features mentioned in this article

Where can I find this feature using the top menu?

Calendar > Product > Calendar > Asset > Inventory Calendar > Asset tab

What more do I need to use this feature?

• Admin or restricted permissions to:
  • View calendars to view the page
  • View items, products and assets to view the data within the page
  • Manage events and rules to enable/disable assets and remove maintenance events
  • Create bookings to create a new Staff-side booking
    
• Products must be configured with an inventory type based on assets.
  
  

Which Checkfront version supports this feature - classic items, classic products, or both?

• Your account must have access to classic products (Inventory > Products), a key feature of our classic products version of Checkfront. This feature is not available for use with classic items (Inventory > Items) in our classic items version. → Learn more about products. 
   

The Asset tab of the Inventory Calendar provides a complete, visual overview of your asset availability, including the functionality to manage asset assignments.

Check out our complete overview of the Asset Calendar here: Overview of the asset calendar

What are assets? Check out the following series to learn more. Introduction to assets and the asset builder

Your inventory is organized and presented as follows.

By default, your Asset Calendar displays asset data for the current day with the option to view asset assignments by week.

Asset data is then presented by the hour or day, with asset pools grouped by asset category.

Sort order configuration is not available for asset categories or asset pools.

You can start a new Staff-side booking from the Asset Calendar. Simply click on the New Booking button at the top of the page to begin the process.

Learn more about adding new Staff-side bookings here: How do I add a Staff-side booking?

Do you need to manage the assets associated with the assignments, for example, changing the base quantity or capacity? Click the Manage Assets button at the top to open the Assets page in a new tab.

Learn more about managing assets here: Introduction to assets and the asset builder

In the following article in this series, we look at navigating and filtering assets within the Asset tab of the Inventory Calendar.

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