BookOmatic
What is BookOmatic?
- This is a project that intends to automate the process of booking meetings according to available time slots.
What problem does BookOmatic solve ?
- When a person1 wants to book a meeting with person2 he will send an email requesting for the date and time of the meeting. Person1 is not available at the requested time so he gives a date and time to person2 at which he is free. This goes on till they both find a suitable time slot at which they both are free. This is a long and cumbersome process so BookOmatic solves this by showing person1 the date and time slots person2 is free so he can book his meeting immediately.
Contributors
Tools:
- Django
- Python
- Firebase
Use case:
- User1 gets an email from User2 wanting to book a meeting
- User1 sends back a link to a site
- User2 opens the site and sees a UI with available time slots
- User2 presses a time slot and creates a booking
- User1 gets notified about the requested booking
- User1 can approve or disapprove the booking
Requirements:
- Should be able to add events in google calendar
- Should be able to send email notifications
- Should be able to show available spots
- Should check user calendar in case they book something into available spots
- User should be able to pick which times are going to be available to book, weekly, monthly or yearly (for instance Tuesdays at 3 PM is available all year, Monday at 2 PM is only available today etc)
- The user that books meeting should be able to add in details for the meeting
- Might have options like: type of meeting [Phone, Video, Face to Face]
- Adding in a note for what the meeting is about
- Name of booker, name of the company
- Phone number and email
- if it's a video conference an option for adding a link to the site of the meeting is required
- Main user should be able to approve or disapprove booking
Edge cases:
- User1 is in the process of booking an appointment and User2 books it before User1 finishes. So once User1 is done it is no longer available.
- Solution: When a user presses a time slot it becomes unavailable straight away. And if they cancel or get disapproved it will become available again.
- User2 can hog available slots by opening the booking page indefinitely, making the application counter-productive. There has to be a time limit set for a single booking to take place, example: 15 mins available to book a slot after User clicks a slot to book
Developer Setup:
- Fork this repository, and cd into it.
git clone https://github.com/KalleHallden/BookOmatic.git
cd BookOmatic/- Create and activate your virtual environment.
- MacOS/Linux:
virtualenv --no-site-packages env source env/bin/activate- Windows:
virtualenv env .\env\Scripts\activate - Install requisite python packages and modules.
pip install -r requirements.txt- Verify if the Django project is working by running the development server.
python manage.py runserver