>>Also a public holidays table with Holiday id (I'll store the possible holidays in a lookup table) and holiday date.
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>>Also a vacation table with staff id, start date and end date.
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>>Does that sound OK? Any ideas for improvement?
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>As far as I can see, you got that right. Maybe dragging an icon would be too much - doubleclick (or even a simple click, unless there's something else you want to do with the click) should be enough to flip between available/unavailable.
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>You'd need a couple of view forms, to show everyone for one day or week, to show the whole week for one guy, or one office for a given period - you figure it out, what's the information they want to see quickly.

Hi Dragan,

thanks for your input.

Dragging the icon will probably be one of multiple ways. They use this already for creating appointments, or they can just start typing in the time slot or doublclicking will bring up a subform to enter the appointmnet details.

Good point about the multiple views!