More flexible open/close hours for locations

109 votes

It would be great if hours of availability for locations could be based on date (eg summer hours for the library) and allow for late-night hours (closing at 3am rather than midnight).

Under consideration ** Location Management Suggested by: Wes H (CollegeNET) (20 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 09 May • Comments: 18

Comments: 18

01 Apr, '20
Keith Stiles
This seems like a ridiculous request at first but the reality is that many campuses have different hours of operation in summer as opposed to other times and libraries also often have those late-night hours close to exam time. I know of at least two institutions that wanted a better way to handle this: Cornell University and McDaniel College.
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23 Sep, '20
Sarah Willis
This has become more critical during the pandemic. I would like to set current hours and be able to have future hours that are different. This allows scheduling locations by date efficient. We have 3 different, but "standard" times: Fall/Spring; Wintersession; Summer. We now also have pandemic hours and it would be great not to have to use blackouts to try and manipulate this.
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14 Oct, '20
Lesli Younger
We've reverse engineered the Blackout date/times to accommodate this. Huge hassle but it works. Would love to see this in place. It would be especially helpful if we could do this in Bulk.
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14 Dec, '20
Megan Parravano
Yes, our IT department pulls open hour information from 25Live to show when certain spaces are available and there are some rooms that simply cannot be a part of this report, such as the library, because their hours often go after midnight or just change so frequently the simple setup won't capture this information. It would be great if we could do weekly repeating or have a monthly schedule where the hours could change daily.
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18 Feb, '21
Bonnie Hendrickson
Our academic scheduling dept is responsible for changing the hours in 25L of every individual campus building every quarter. I think they would love the ability to have some pre-sets based on quarters, breaks and individual buildings.
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03 Dec, '21
Lesli Younger Merged
It takes so much time and effort to maneuver blackouts to accommodate variable hours of availability throughout the year. It would be amazing to have an easy way to manage this.
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07 Jan, '22
Marie-Josee
I agree - this would be helpful for seasonal hour changes, especially the Library, but also in our main buildings. We have different hours during the school year and summer (etc.). I use a combination of blackouts and AP to control this, but the feature would be better! Thanks, CollegeNet.
14 Jan, '22
Pamela Mason
Something Like Regular hours as they are now and then be able to enter exceptions in the way you do blackouts. So if there was no exception it used what the regular hours are.
16 Feb, '22
Tammy Miller Merged
I agree with Jennifer and Lesli about the difficulty in maintaining correct hours between terms and on holidays. It is very time consuming.
11 Mar, '22
Sabrina Shepherd Merged
Our Library building has varying hours throughout the year. I need to be able to set these hours at least for the entire year so that reservations aren't made when the building is closed. Right now, the building hours settings are a blanket setting and the blackout dates don't solve this problem either. Help!
11 Mar, '22
Walt (CollegeNET) Admin Merged
"More Building Hour settings" (suggested by Sabrina Shepherd on 2022-03-11), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
01 Sep, '22
Julie Hoyenski Merged
Agreed! Our library changes hours per semester and during breaks. We are often scheduling in their building months/weeks before the upcoming semester. I am today scrambling to move orientation events out of the library because they won't be open.
18 Jan, '23
Tammy Miller
Yes, please. Considerable time is spent changing hours of operation according to term or season.
13 Apr, '23
Walt (CollegeNET) Admin
"Variable building hours across semesters" (suggested by Jennifer Lim (The New School) on 2020-05-13), including upvotes (27) and comments (5), was merged into this suggestion.
17 Nov, '23
Christopher F
Our Student Union's hours vary based on fall & spring vs. summer, holidays/university closures, exam weeks, whether or not there's a home football game, etc., and the number of blackouts we're relying on is beginning to become unmanageable. We're also going to change our weekend hours next semester, but I don't think there's a way to display that without using more blackouts.
The ability to override/change hours day-by-day would be really helpful.
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07 Dec, '23
Moss
Currently, the process we have for events in quarters after the present one is adding a "Pending - Building Hours" resource. This is time-consuming, tedious, and makes us constantly have to go back and check documents to see if a specific building is closed or has modified hours on a holiday/break/etc. I would love this feature!
22 Feb
Anders
Another use case for more flexible open/closed hours is a room that's closed mid-day for a lunch break, but open 2 different periods, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
28 Feb
Megan
it would be great if building hours could be scheduled like the reservations are with calendars and different occurrences instead of the basic weekly schedule, which changes often!