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The number of employees working in your company is growing and you need now a powerfull tool to organize your activity.

PlanningPME, an employee scheduling software, will help you to manage your human resources management.

In just some clicks you know what your employees are working on.

You can filter by departments in order to have a clearer overview of your activity.

Opt for our scheduling software to manage your activity.

Schedule your appointments in just some clicks!

Download our free trial version of our appointment scheduling software PlanningPME and follow this course to schedule your appointments.

1- Create an appointment

Draw a rectangle directly on the planning board or right click with your mouse.

The following window appears.

Select the task, the date and time and save your setting.

Then, your new appointment will be created:

2- Shift or Postpone an appointment

Just select it and drag and drop it:

It will then be assigned to another resource:

3- Delete an appointment

Just select it, right click and select delete:

4- Go further with our scheduling software

There are plenty of functions that will save a lot of time: Lock your tasks, creating recurring bookings, synchronize your appointment with Outlook...

Schedule your technicians easily with our maintenance planning software PlanningPME

1- Technicians view of the planning

You can easily manage the schedule of your technicians with PlanningPME: Appointments in site for installation, revision, repair puposes.

You can also check in advance who is available or not to complete a job.

2- Clients view of the planning

Have also a view of the clients planning:

You also have the possibility to import all your clients list to save some time. 

3- View of all the jobs allocated

Contact us to know more about the best way to set up your planning.

Most of the time, your resources have to carry out one task at the same time. It means that you wont be allowed to create a second task at the same time for this ressource and will have to choose another one. Furthermore, PlanningPME informs you that the resource is already busy as shown in the following picture:

But it can happen that in a company, resources have to work out more than just one task at the same time.

With PlanningPME, you have the possibility to assign several tasks to a resource.

To activate this option, go to 

Then untick 'assign only one task at the same time to one resource' in order to be allowed to create to events for this resource.

Providing that the option is untick, the resource can have more than just 1 task to carry out as shown below.

 You also have the possibility to zoom on periodical tasks to have a precise overview of recurrences.

Here are some informations and tips about task creation and modification.

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• task management

Location of the database in Windows Vista

Where is my MS Access database (pp file) in Windows Vista?

PlanningPME is working on Windows vista, Windows XP and older version.

Here is how the planning will look like after this installation:

You are trying to copy your planning (PlanningPME.pp) and you can not find it? Some files are hidden in Windows Vista.

Here is the location of the database:

C:\Users\%User%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\PlanningPME

The database is on the "user" folder.

Change the language in PlanningPME

You have our scheduling software PlanningPME displayed in French and you would like to have it in your own language?

You can change the language of the software PlanningPME easily in just some clicks.

To do so, go to the menu "Outils" -> "Langue"

Then, select your language from the list. You can select: French, English, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Italian...

Then, the interface of PlanningPME will change immediately.

For example, in Swedish:

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- Multi-language planning tool

- Download our scheduling software PlanningPME

You have a lot of resources to manage in your company and you don't want to display them all at the same time on your screen because it would be unreadable? The solution for your business planning is Planning department creation with PlanningPME

With PlanningPME, you can create easily departments in order to have a better overview of your activity and extract the Planning for each department from your overall schedule

First create your department in Date -> Department

Following window appears :

Enter the name of your departments clicking on add and select directly from this window the resources belonging to this department

In the department window you can now the your departments and the number of resources in each department

Then, you can display on your screen one department for a better overview clicking on the combo box in the menu bar and selecting the department you want to appear on your screen.

Only the resources of this department will be displayed

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• PlanningPME, resource management

Manage your resources easily with PlanningPME!

You can create as many human resources as you want in PlanningPME.
Human resources can be: technicians, trainers, employees, instructors and any kind of staff.

Features to manage efficiently your human resources

- Human resource department: Group your resources by department and filter the planning by department in order to display specific resources.

- Resource profile: Create a standard weekly profile for each employee and  visualize working days of your staff.

- Employee agreement: Create job contracts for each employee

- Skills management: Assign skills to resources and find out skilled resources easily

- Time Tracking: Track the time or your employees each day, week or month

You are overworked and don't know anymore how to handle with your office project management.

PlanningPME will help you to schedule your projects easily thanks its powerful office project management tool : at a glance you can see the activity of your resources and set priorities to the tasks to be done.

You will then save time and have a better overview of the urgent project to complete.

To manage task dependencies and priorities,  link your tasks easily within PlanningPME.

You will find a video here.

A free trial is available on our web site as well as examples according your needs.

Synchronize your data via Visual Basic Scripts developed by Target Skills

Do you want to avoid typing all your data on resources, clients, tasks and projects?

Then, ask Target Skills for some specific developments or integration in order to save time.

Examples of integration via Visual Basic scripts:

A lot of possibilities of Import and synchronisation for those fields:

- Resources

- Clients

- Tasks

- Projects

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- Import your clients via VB scripts

- Integration