Machine booking calendar

Machines — add each one: name, location, slot length, longest booking, gap between bookings (cool- down or clean-up), colour, opening and closing time (a closing time earlier than opening means past midnight — handy for overnight prints) and the days it’s open. Load example machines adds a laser, two printers and a CNC router. Import a machine list takes a space file ({"machines":[{"id":"laser","name":"Laser cutter"}…]}), any JSON array, a CSV with a header row or one name per line; choose which column is the name and the id if they aren’t guessed. When the machine induction or machine cards tool has a space file in this browser, Use this browser’s space adds its machines in one click: new ones get the default hours, ones already here keep theirs and take the file’s name and location.

Calendar → Day shows every machine side by side; Week shows one machine’s week. Drag down a column to book a span (it snaps to the machine’s slots); on a touch screen tap a slot and set the end in the form. The form says straight away what’s wrong — overlaps, too close to the next booking, outside hours, too long — and only books when it’s free. Tap a booking to change it, cancel it, or download its .ics. If this browser also holds machine induction’s sign-off register and the person booking isn’t signed off on that machine (or their sign-off has expired), the form says so — a warning, not a block.

Calendar → Now is the kiosk board: each machine, who’s on it and until when, or how long it’s free, and who’s next. Book now starts a booking at the current slot. After 90 seconds untouched the page goes back to this board.

🖨 Day sheet prints the day’s bookings per machine, large, for the door.

Maintenance — blocks that nobody can book over: once, daily, weekly (on chosen days) or monthly, every N, until a date, for one machine or all. A weekly block at 10:00 stays at 10:00 after the clocks change. Existing bookings a new block overlaps are listed so you can move them.

Data & settings — the space’s time zone (all times are shown in it), the zoom of the grid, and calendar files: 📅 .ics on a machine exports its bookings and maintenance from last week to 12 weeks ahead; each booking has its own. Import a .ics onto a machine as bookings (repeating events become separate bookings for the next 26 weeks; ones that clash are skipped and listed) or as maintenance blocks (the repeat rule is kept). Importing the same file again updates rather than duplicates.