The newly introduced PowerDoodle options also allow a poll’s initiator to limit the number of answers allowed per participant (row) or option (column). You can use this feature to utilize Doodle for any kind of resource planning and reservation. For example:
- As a teacher to organize your consultation hours
- As an exhibitor to staff your stand at a fair
- As a group of people who want to coordinate “stuff” they own or use as a group, e.g., a tennis court, a boat, or a cottage
How to specify limits for the number of answers per participant (row) and option (column)
Using Doodle as a simple resource planning and reservation tool
August 20, 2008 at 10:43 pm
When printing a full week’s worth of schedules – one that requires scrolling far to the right or left to view it all – there doesn’t seem to be any way to print all the data. Anything outside of the page width is eliminated, rather than put onto a second page.
Is there any workaround, or planned updates to address this?
August 20, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Here’s the solution: You can export the poll to PDF or Excel and print from there.
Example: http://www.doodle.ch/export.html?pollId=fh7x8guxqbdbc4yq
August 22, 2008 at 10:34 pm
It would be nice if there was an option to have the checkbox for every possible date selected as “ok” when a person logs on. Then they would have to uncheck the dates that wouldn’t work. This would be better for my uses because we want people to be as inclusive as possible in telling us what dates would work. As it is now it takes extra for them to check all of the boxes if they’re free all of the dates, which is what we hope they’ll do.
Can you add this feature this weekend? (Lol, I know that probably won’t be possible but thought I’d go ahead and ask.)
August 22, 2008 at 10:34 pm
BTW, it’s a great service. Thanks!!
September 12, 2008 at 11:14 pm
The “limit number of choices per participant” option allows just “1″ or “unlimited”.
having this limit be more flexible (e.g. “5 responses per participant”) would be very helpful.
September 13, 2008 at 9:25 am
Peter, thanks for the feedback. Could you describe a use case where this feature would be helpful?
October 1, 2008 at 11:45 am
Bonjour,
It is nice to use doodle.
My question is:
we are 35 peoples to use it and we have 42 choises, it would be nice to be able to reduce the tabler.
As people would be able to see more effiicently the all tabler easier.
Thank to you. M.
October 17, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Do you think it would be possible to use Doodle to schedule usage dates for a jointly owned summer cottage? Our families agreed to selections of two week blocks of time on a rotating basis (first pick, second pick, third pick then back to first pick, etc. with rotating selection slots yearly). Could users make their selections through Doodle and then “pass” the next selection to the subsequent family in line? Can’t figure out this question from the website. If not, does anyone know of other programs that could handle usage issues for jointly held properties (not wanting overlap). Thanks!
October 27, 2008 at 7:25 pm
@ Julie,
Create a poll “Make a choice” instead “Schedule an Event”. Put in the 2 week blocks as options. Then click on the “PowerDoodle-Button” in the very last wizard step. There you select “Number of OKs” to 1. Here an example: http://doodle.com/prmikw3ypmap6d2v I you want to allow more than one family to pick a certain time slot, allow more OKs per option.
Hope that helps?
Best,
Reto
April 26, 2010 at 2:21 am
The “limit number of choices per participant” option allows just “unlimited” or “1″.
having this limit is more flexible (e.g. “5 responses per participant”) would be very useful.
February 13, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Would be very nice if I can see in my calender that time slots I indicated as available, so I don’t plan something else over them…