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You can integrate

Optimaze

EG Worksense with a 3rd party booking system to help users quickly find available meeting spaces and create an ad-hoc booking.

Currently supported 3rd party systems are Microsoft

Office

365 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 or newer.


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How it works

Optimaze

Worksense reads and writes the 3rd party systems booking data through APIs. Detailed information can be found under each 3rd party system in the integration section.

As we are actively developing the software there are

slight

some differences what features are available on

the mobile application and on the web application

different endpoints. Below is a table explaining the differences in features and what information can be viewed in the web application and mobile application.

Feature

User interface

Mobile application

Web application

Lobby screens

Search available rooms

x

(tick)



Book

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

Start and end time

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

Location

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

Title

x

(tick)



Participants

x

(tick)



View bookings




Start and end time

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

Location

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

Title

x

(tick)



Participants

x

(tick)



There also differences on what booking information users can view and edit depending on whether the booking was made from

Optimaze

EG Worksense or not. The table below explains these differences.

Feature

Booked through Worksense

Not booked through Worksense

View bookings

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

Start and end time

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

Location

x

(tick)

x

(tick)

Title

x

(tick)


Participants

x

(tick)


Edit booking

x

(tick)


Start and end time

x

(tick)


Location

x

(tick)


Title

x

(tick)


Participants

x

(tick)


Setup

  1. Setup the integration between

Optimaze
  1. EG Worksense and your 3rd party booking system

O365
    1. Microsoft 365 instructions

    2. Exchange Server instructions

  1. Define bookable spaces in Optimaze Space software module. See instructions here

  2. Test the integration by creating a booking, editing a booking, and cancelling a booking from

Optimaze integration enabled
  1. EG Worksense

noteYou cannot have more than one


Info
You cannot have more than one integration enabled
Note

Once the

intergration

integration is enable

all users have access to the calendars you have entered into the Optimaze system

Access and Permissions

NOTE: Once booking features are enabled

all users have access to the calendars you have entered into the Optimaze system

. See instructions on next pages to see how calendars are added. Also all Optimaze Worksense users can view and edit calendars according to table.