Umer Javed MSFT

Currently when we try and update pattern for multiday booking via "Specify Pattern", the ability to adjust timing is not available in the Daily view and you have to navigate to hourly view to update the time window. e.g. Find me somebody available for 5 hours in this 10 hours (From and To) time window. This seems to be a missing functionality therefore needs addressing to prevent low user adoption of the platform.

Other then default calendar days If you select any different working days or non working days it doesn't make any difference for Schedule Assistant to consider those updated days therefore pattern still follows the original calendar. Similarly if you change the time window, it still doesn't make any difference to underline pattern or requirement detail therefore schedule assistant still uses the originally created requirement detail and searches for the resources qualifying that originally defined pattern. This requires fixing. The only functionality that works in this window is Timezone setting which is of little use.

Integration of "appointments" is a nice feature within Universal resource scheduling since using OOB method, resources can self book their lunch breaks/urgent appointments etc. Hence lesser of day to day admin overhead for resource managers in larger organisations. Whilst the resource capacity is 1, the schedule assistant by default considers any appointment for the resource therefore doesn't propose being available during that time however if capacity>1, the schedule assistant ignores the appointment and still proposes the resource being available during its appointment time whereas the resource may have a self booked tea break/lunch etc. 

It would be great to have a Scheduling parameter setting for Schedule Assistant "Consider appointments for resource with capacity>1"(Yes/No) 

so the organisations could make use of this setting and allow staff to self manage there appointments regardless of the capacity of a resource.

Upon clicking on Book button on Requirement, schedule assistant gets loaded and maps the "Available duration" on the filter panel from duration on the requirement. So when full booking or partial booking is made via Schedule Assistant and "Book button clicked" the bottom panel refreshes and correctly shows updated "Remaining duration" and fulfilled duration" whereas the scheduling assistant filter at the top doesn’t refresh Dynamically considering any booking/partial booking being made therefore sticks to original “Available duration” hence risk of over booking against the resources.

It'll be great if the filter panel also refreshes and therefore updates "Available duration" once a booking is made via "Book" button on Schedule assistant.