Master Planner 4

Master Planner 4 is a graphical version of a wall planner, presented as a grid, with names of employees or other resources down the left and dates across the top. A planner may show a number of weeks, or a whole year, or you can specify exact dates. Add icons to grid squares to indicate the activities of employees on selected dates - holidays, project work, conferences and so on [click screenshot, right, to enlarge].

Docked or floating toolbars give access to editing and search functions, and moving around the planner may be achieved using mouse or keyboard operations. An undo function is available. A status bar, tooltips and full on-line help make Master Planner easy to use.

Each resource has from 1 to 12 lines for icons on the planner, for activities during different time periods. For each resource, you can specify categories (such as department, gender or salary grade) and start, finish and birthdates. A wide range of icons is available in the registered version, from which you can choose just the ones appropriate to your company; network version users may also create their own custom icons [click screenshot, left, to enlarge]. A text note may be added to any grid square to record additional information.

For larger planners, you can view just part of the planner (a single department, say), while the statistics function shows the number of times an icon has been used for a time period [click screenshot, right, to enlarge]. Icons can also be tracked and their use restricted (for example, staff leave, training or projects). There is a wide range of reports available, which may be memorised, and full backup and restore functions are available. The Network version of Master Planner 4 may be run on a network, if required, and, using your network software, files may be set up with read-only access for staff without administrator privileges.

Master Planner 4 is available as a freeware download.