Workflow Library

Are you interested in what we can do with our workflow feature? In here are short descriptions of some of the workflows we have built. Each of these has the capability to be customised to suit your own situation.

A workflow to manipulate and extract parts of dates
One of our customers was needing to send reports containing information from Calpendo where dates needed to be manipulated in specific ways.  As the reports...
Tue, 15 Sep, 2020 at 10:26 AM
A workflow to create an email link for an Outlook invite
Calpendo has the ability to send standard emails to bookers containing a summary of the booking they just made.  A customer asked us to add an additional me...
Tue, 15 Sep, 2020 at 9:53 AM
A workflow to limit a project's booking hours per week
A customer wished to constrain each of their projects to a fixed maximum number of scanning hours per week. To achieve this we added a custom field to their...
Thu, 10 Sep, 2020 at 1:43 PM
A workflow to adjust an inventory value based on a booking
A couple of our customers store inventory items and their current stock levels in Calpendo.  Once a booking has completed these customers allow a user to su...
Mon, 7 Sep, 2020 at 12:59 PM
A workflow to calculate costs using peak/off-peak rates
Workflows allow for extremely flexible cost calculations, which can be based on information held at resource or project level, or based on custom tables def...
Mon, 7 Sep, 2020 at 2:04 PM
A workflow to remind PIs to update their project details
Many customers use Projects in Calpendo to group bookings under a body of work or funding source which may be ongoing for a number of years.  In this case i...
Mon, 7 Sep, 2020 at 11:01 AM
A workflow to assign different menus to users when they log in
Menus within Calpendo are completely customisable and by default are assigned to users the very first time they log in to the system based on their assigned...
Fri, 4 Sep, 2020 at 1:14 PM
A workflow to inform recent users of a resource of a new cancellation
This is a workflow we've done for a couple of customers.  Let's say you want to ensure that a resource is not lying idle when a user cancels.  We ha...
Fri, 4 Sep, 2020 at 10:45 AM
A workflow to handle capturing information from an external web-page to Calpendo
This style of workflow has been done for a few customers.  Through the workflow we can produce an external facing web-page which can capture information fro...
Fri, 4 Sep, 2020 at 10:30 AM
A workflow for adjusting the length of a booking based on a user submitted value
We built a workflow for a microscopy facility where the researchers submit the number of slides which need to be completed in the booking request.  As each ...
Fri, 4 Sep, 2020 at 10:25 AM