>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.
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>Good point about the multiple views!

I was in charge of scheduling in a high school for four years... manually. Tried to write some software for that, but the ZX Spectrum's 24x32 screen just wasn't enough, I needed a 60x80 cell grid :).

And I've done some doctors' scheduling (more on the appointment side, the availability part was very simple, compared to what you are doing) in FPD2.6 some ten years ago.

From that experience, I remember that it's not that much about how handy it is to get the data in, it's more about how fast can we extract information from it.