Hello all,

I did have a look but couldn't find anything which gave a clear answer; will the 3.x version of this module allow a user to book more than one resource per booking?

We would love to implement this for our NHS deanery (http://www.kssdeanery.org) but our staff need to be able to book 15 laptops at a time, for example - might it be possible to extend the system so the "create booking page" allows multiple items to be selected at once? At its simplest, it could simply create multiple event bookings, but it might would be great if one booking ID could show several resources.

No need for the bookings to handle multiple times, either - one set of from/to dates will be perfect for us.

If there's anything you can do to help us with this, I'd be amazingly happy. I'm more than happy to help you test this system as well if it would help.

I also have a request relating to Views/Calendar which I'll add separately.

Many thanks in advance!

Alex

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Is the set of resources booked always the same set? Then you could group your resources by adding something like "Notebook Group 1" as Parent resource of "Notebook 1-1" to "Notebook 1-15" (alternativeley adding Group "Notebook Group 1" which is parent of "Notebook Group 1.1" to "Notebook Group 1.3" where each is parent of 5 single notebooks, that way either 5 or 15 notebooks could be booked). Alternatively one would have to expand Public Bookings and Bookings API to handle sets of resources because ATM they are not capable of handling "multiple resources in one booking" ..

An option would be to add "booking groups", which could be possible as soon as I've rewritten the way bookings are stored (node-type instead of custom-type).