The In/Out Board is a place to quickly see who is in our out of the office and when they are expected to return. It is useful for a birds-eye view when people are coming back from lunch, vacation, being out on the road, or just who is in the office. Logs the user ID, a brief message, date/time they left, and when they are expected to return.

A separate browse screen displays all the users in/out status in a single window.

Schedule Holidays is used for recording company and individual holidays. This is useful for scheduling new events on the calendar, so that you can make sure you're not scheduling items when you are going to be away or the company is closed. A holiday can be global to all users or limited to a particular user. For example, if the company will be closed during the week of December 25 for Christmas then that holiday will appear on everyone's schedule. On the other hand, a personal vacation will only appear on the schedule of the user who recorded the vacation.

Use the While You Were Gone (WYWG) feature to record incoming messages for unavailable coworkers. The option to record messages on current contacts in the database fills in things like phone number automatically. Or, messages can be free from association to existing records. Upon return, an alarm alerts the user they have incoming WYWG messages.

No more scribbled pink message pads with Contact Plus Professional!

Interoffice Mail is one of several functions in Contact Plus to help you manage the activities in your business related to your co workers. Interoffice Mail is used for sending messages to other people identified in Contact Plus as being users of the program on the network. It's designed to allow you to get in touch with your co workers without having to page them or leave a voice mail message. It's a non-urgent way of communication.

The Interoffice Mail feature lets you send quick messages to your coworkers, featuring such abilities as carbon copy, referring to a specific contact, and attaching a file from your hard disk or network.

Broadcast Messages are more urgent messages than Interoffice Mail. These messages are not saved between broadcasts; they are quick one time messages such as telling users to meet in the conference room right away.

Each user to receive the broadcast message must be logged into Contact Plus at the time of the message.

Your big-screen projector mysteriously vanished and no one admits to being the last one who used it. Three different people needed Conference Room A at the same time last week. You have two salesmen battling on who uses the Palm Pilot and who uses the Laptop. You need the Equipment Reservation database in Contact Plus Professional.

This feature is used to reserve shared resources within your organization. You can configure it for equipment, conference rooms, any type of company resources. Borrowed & returned dates, memos, userIDs are all stored and easily referenced. New equipment can be added to the database at any time.