Time zone erratically assigned
I'm using Bookings through an Education account at an R1 university. I have attempted setting up my calendar availability many different ways in Bookings, but I continue to experience the same error about which many others have complained. Unfortunately, the workaround that seems to work for business users is not an option in educational accounts. The option to "Always show time slots in business time zone" appears nowhere. This morning, I had a student book an appointment with me, thinking it was at 10a (PST), when it was actually a slot for 1pm (EST, and where we are located). The confirmation email I received showed the time as 12p (CST). This seems to be a perennial problem with Bookings, yet no one seems to have a solution for it in this particular context. We're not technically a "business," but major universities are BIG money for Microsoft. I can only imagine how much profit they are making selling their platform to a university like this, with >32k students and >12,000 employees, across all campuses. It seems like y'all might consider re-working the application code to develop a more stable solution. I never had this issue when our University still allowed us to use Google calendar with students. If someone has an answer, I will be forever in your debt.
Problem with Time Zones
I use bookings to arrange meetings with students. Often, students schedule a meeting and it appears to them in a different time zone, even though we are geographically in the same place. Perhaps they have a different time zone set somewhere in a Microsoft app, or perhaps the default when signing up for a meeting as a guest is somehow set to a different time zone--what ever the case, there seems to be a problem with default time zones for students. My time zones are all set to Eastern time across Bookings and Outlook. This issue is causing me (and my 12 colleagues) significant scheduling problems as we need to schedule hundreds of meetings with students. When I search for solutions in community postings, it seems like selecting "Always show time slots in business time zone" would solve our problem. But this option does not appear in my Bookings setting anywhere that I can find. I have tried to follow step by step processes from Microsoft help pages, but the settings menus in the tutorials do not look like mine. If it is helpful to know, I use an Apple MacBook Air M3; I access my Bookings page through Teams and my Firefox browser; and I use Outlook through the app.
Force bookings start time to be on the hour, always
I am trying to set up an appointment service. Our appointments are 50 minutes long, to give us time to write up after and the student time to get to their lectures etc. People in our org also regularly schedule 50 min meetings that aren't through bookings. I have set it so that they start at 1 hour intervals, and have a 10 minute buffer after. This works fine most of the time. However, if I am available 10:00-14:00 on a Tuesday, and have an existing meeting in my calendar from 10:00-10:50, then the appointments show on bookings at 10:50, 11:50 and 12:50 for that day. This really doesn't work for our or the student's availability. Other than going through and manually adding a 10 minute appointment in my calendar at the end of any meeting, which isn't really feasible due to how busy we are, is there any way to force bookings to start "on the hour" every time, or another workaround others can think of? (I thought of moving the buffer to the beginning, which might help for the 50 min example, however if I had a meeting in from 9:30-10:30, appointments would then just go at 10:40, 11:40, etc) Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Scheduled date not showing for booking
Hi. I've just set up several booking services for parents to select meetings with teachers. All my settings (except dates and staff) are the same, however, some of the dates are not showing as available on the bookings page interface. I have been through everything but cannot find a reason why some dates are available and others aren't. Any help would be gratefully received!Receive the message “Microsoft Bookings is not activated for you” despite E1 license
Hello, We work with the E1 license (school). According to the MS page https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-365/bookings/bookings-overview?view=o365-worldwide the license for Bookings is included. Since it is not displayed, I would like to activate it via the M365 Admin Center --> Settings --> Organization settings--> Services (according to the support article in the Admin Center). However, the service is not listed. Why is the service not listed? Thanks for your help WoschUsing Bookings to register people for scheduled events?
Hi: I want to test if Bookings could be a good solution for this activity - or if there's a better way within 365. I will run six workshops in Zoom (scheduled via Outlook) next year. I want to send a communication to about 300 people from a range of organisations inviting them to sign up for any or all of these sessions. Probably be able to accommodate up to 200 people per session. Is it possible to use Bookings to have them sign up for the workshops, and get an invitation sent to them, AND have them added to our Outlook appointment attendees (so we know who they are)? If so... how?! If not, is there another MS365 product or feature that would enable this?
Disable the Reschedule option
I have looked everywhere and no one from Microsoft answers how to disable the reschedule option. I don't want my employees to be able to reschedule the event they sign up for. All the workarounds i have seen don't exist. Can someone assist? this app seems under developed and under supported.Schedules on the booking page do not load
We have a page for scheduling appointments, and this page is not loading the available times nor is it loading the status of the attendant team. For example, when trying to select someone from the team, the status is only "loading" and the person's schedule is not available. I've already checked the settings on the service page, and they're ok. There are no errors, the timetables simply do not load.
Microsoft Bookings Question
I am trying to create a computer check out bookings site for our computer carts where I work. I want to make the bookings public so teachers can see when particular computers are available. I also want to make each "appointment" be able to occur at the same time as other "appointments". For example, computers 1-10 from cart A are one "appointment" and computers 1-10 from Cart B are a separate "appointment". I want them to be able to be available at the same time, but can't figure it out.
