Tutorial Movies

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Available Movies

  If you don't watch any other movies, watch this one. It's the overview of the basic approach to scheduling
  with Diamond Scheduler

  An Introduction to Scheduling Multiple Divisions: Approach 1 (4:30 Minutes)

  This movie explains how to schedule multiple divisions with my preferred method: Ensuring that each division has
  mutually-exclusive timeslots identified in the timeslot calendar.

  An Introduction to Scheduling Multiple Divisions: Approach 2 (5:45 Minutes)

  Here you will learn an alternative version for scheduling multiple divisions in which you load all the timeslots in the
  first schedule, then sequentially export leftover timeslots for subsequent schedule files.

  An Introduction to Scheduling Multiple Divisions: Approach 3 (3:50 Minutes)

  This movie introduces you to a third approach for multidivisional scheduling in which you identify all venue timeslots
  in a master 'timeslot pool' file and use this set of timeslots as the starting point for each schedule. Before scheduling
  a division or level, you delete timeslots already used in locked schedules that you have already completed.

  Tips and Shortcuts

  This series of brief tips and shortcuts is expanded as people ask me to solve specific problems with Diamond
  Scheduler. Here you can find out how to increase your efficiency with creating timeslots, creating teams and venues
  and several other more obscure approaches to scheduling.