Hi - coming rather late into this discussion, thought I would offload my "would pay for" free/busy usability requirements.
We use Groupwise here (1000 seats) but could equally use Outlook or Notes. I am very interested in Chandler and have tried a few of it's releases to date. To work for us (a medium sized uk charity) it does need to have a good set of availabilty checking features. Most of us do not visually scan each others diaries, rather we use the "auto select" feature which finds the next mutually available slot betwen all the selected participants . However this functionality is mostly useless as it is because you cannot say "and any meeting room available which is big enough". - instead, having found the first available slot for the humans, you then have to get a multi-person view up with all of the rooms showing and see if there is one free. If not then try auto selecting the /next/ available human slot and so on. Another way is to include a suitable meeting room, do an auto select then go back and repeat with a few other rooms and remember which one was the earliest. All crap as you can see. I don't think it gets any bettr on the other big corporate groupware apps either. So, anecdotal evidence or not, if you can offer such an "a+b+c+(d or e or f)" type availability search then we will be v v happy. If I have offered this nugget to the wrong list I do apologise! Yours Jon Cheyne Head of IT Shelter, London, UK www.shelter.org.uk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
