an easy way to check what resource is available at given time

[Zhang Weiwu]

Right now it is easy to select a resource, and see what time it is occupied or not occupied, so that to decide to use the resource[1]. But it is not a inherient way to find out what resource is usable at given time, as is useful when confronting questions like "which room is available for an extra lesson on Friday afternoon".

A tricky way to accomplish this is to create a dummy event, and try to book the resource for the dummy event, thus seeing what resource is available. The dis-advantages are: a) the feature is not obvious when user need it; b) after the "probe" for resource, sometimes you have to delete or modify the dummy event.

In this feature request I propose a one-step event creation dialogue as attached, which defeats disadvantage b), so that user can "probe" for resource during, instead of after, event creation. It is not optimal though. This request should be closed if we decide to had to a complete and intuitive "resource probe" interface.

[1] https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/schooltool/+question/103584