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What is PBCS?

Project-Based Calendaring System (in short PBCS)

is an open source web-based calendaring system, designed to be an useful aid for people who manage schedules for one or more persons. The main feature of PBCS, which distinguishes it from all other calendar applications, is that schedule planners can plan schedules for other people easily using day or week overviews showing multiple people at once. There are the regular single-user overviews for those who look mainly at their own calendar. For people on the road it is now possible to sync your appointments into a Palm PDA.

Here are two examples where PBCS can be used very well.

Example 1:

A project planner of a company needs to plan projects of 10 or more days on 9 persons. Using the Multi-Week overview the planner is able to see who is busy during the weeks the project should be executed and who is not. In addition the project planner can add project labels to the appoints, making it possible to track how many hours were assigned to a project and how many of them are used until today.

Example 2:

A doctors office having four docters available for consults. The office people must schedule consults for the doctors and see which doctor is available on a short times notice. They can use the multi-day overview showing all doctors and their schedules. Using this overview the office people can see which doctor is first available.

PBCS is an open source project written in PHP mainly developed using MySQL as database. If you understand how to install PBCS you can use it freely. Check out the PBCS-pages using the PBCS-icon in the menubar. Read PBCS News in the News page of PBCS.

Documentation Wiki Online...

10 May 2007 - Roalt Zijlstra

In an effort to make documentation of PBCS easier and more accessable then before, a Documentatio... Read More

PBCS 0.7.1-1 released

6 May 2007 - Roalt Zijlstra

An update to the 0.7.0 release is downloadable now. A lot of bugs have been fixed, especially jav... Read More

Problems with Forum and D...

4 April 2007 - Roalt Zijlstra

Due to a server migration the PBCS forum and demo sites were unavailable and/or malfunctioning. T... Read More

Bugfix release 0.7.0a

17 September 2006 - Roalt Zijlstra

In the 0.7.0 release were a few bugs, so a bugfix version 0.7.0a was released. Some of the bugs h... Read More

PBCS 0.7.0 released

15 August 2006 - Roalt Zijlstra

After one and a half year of preparing this new release, I am proud to present the 0.7.0 release.... Read More

PBCS 0.7.0 rc1 demo avail...

1 February 2006 - Roalt Zijlstra

As the next release 0.7.0 is nearly finished, a lot of testing is needed to remove eventual bugs.... Read More

PHP 4.3.9 and up session ...

11 april 2005 - Roalt Zijlstra

If you have problems with logging in on PBCS or if you get kicked out occasionally while using PB... Read More

Status Update PBCS 0.7.0

2 April 2005 - Roalt Zijlstra

What is happening with PBCS?

According to the roadmap as described in the About page, I a... Read More