Timetable rules are generally used to restrict the booking options for certain people, fixed times or places, which PC CADDIE automatically recognises and processes.
To define these automatic restrictions, first clarify two basic questions:
1. WHO IS ALLOWED to book when, how and, if applicable, how often or not yet or NOT anymore?
2. WHEN does which different green fee price apply to WHOM?
Practical examples of restrictions:
You can therefore exclude groups of people, set time and number limits and have the rules displayed in colour in the local timetable for clarity.
You can define timetable rules / booking restrictions in PC CADDIE under the menu item Timetable/Define timetable rules or in the timetable using the key combination Ctrl + F11
We will now explain simple filter functions to make the creation of timetable rules easier to understand. The following principles must be observed.
Always follow the principle: The timetable rule always refers to a „restriction“ or a „prohibition“ - valid for a specific group of people, for a specific time. The designation must be meaningful enough for the group of people or the user to understand it - even when PC CADDIE://online booking.
Divide the rules into portions and work through „prohibition“ after „prohibition“, one after the other.
Please note that the rule above has higher priority for the price/item definition.
In order not to forget anything, it may help to sketch out an organisation chart in advance.
Click on New (F9) to create a rule:
We will now show you how to use the individual fields of this function, starting with the tab Filter + Zeit:
Once a rule has been defined as described above, you can select a rule in the Article tab to select a desired article that should apply to the rule you have created.
Exceptions for the articles:
In the article, you can define the group of people - (Automatic article) for which the exception should apply. If there is no exception, the basic article is used.
Example: All guests pay a fixed green fee at weekends and on public holidays. Exception: Guests with the membership status of interested party pay nothing at weekends, but do pay on public holidays.
The green fee article for this looks as follows: Via the button Automatic you can define the exceptions. All guests pay the set price on weekdays.
To automate restrictions with a timetable rule in PC CADDIE, you can use the booking restriction functions.
Rules for a certain period: You can ensure that the rules take into account the start and end date, which can be set in the Filter+Time tab and which always applies to the rule. For this to work, you have to enter the rule in the Display tab under „Special“: LIMITDATFT
In this dialogue, you define the external representation of a rule. Here you will find answers to the following questions:
Should a warning be displayed?
If so, which one?
Is the rule generally valid or only for certain booking procedures?
Should a colour coding be visible in the timetable, etc.?
1. Warning Define here whether and when a warning should be issued if this rule comes into force.
If a warning is activated, online no Instead, the person making the booking receives the customer information that is displayed in the description or under point 8.
Keep the definition of the rule short and clear.
- No warning regarding Filter: All settings that are stored in the Booking restriction tab must be marked with No warning regarding filter otherwise the rule will be blocked without further checking - even if only the filter matches (e.g. All persons).
- For non-matching persons warnen: This blocks all persons who do not match the person filter that you set under Filter + time you have defined under Filter + Time.
- For persons matching the filter warnen: This blocks all persons who do not match the person filter you have defined under Filter + Time are blocked.
- Always warn if the time frame stimmt: This blocks all bookings, regardless of what is defined in the person filter under Filter + Time is defined. You need this option, for example, to release bookings 5 days before the appointment from 8 am. To do this, the rule as described above under Filter + time point 9 above.
2. Colour Underline a rule with an additional colour. This can also be displayed in the timetable and makes it easier to get an overview thanks to the additional visual support (e.g. tee times that are only accessible to members are highlighted in colour). These colours are not transferred to the PC CADDIE://online services.
3. Special function for PC CADDIE:online This can be used to additionally visualise the rules based on special entries. The advantage is that you can see directly what may or may not be permitted. We have listed a few examples further down in the text.
- Those with red colour block all bookings, regardless of what has been entered in the other tabs or which person filter has been selected:
- Those with yellow colour colour locks the entire flight as soon as a booking has been made. This setting is often used for bookings with golf pros if you want to allow a person to book a lesson for themselves and someone else, but not allow anyone else to join a booking that has already been made:
- The one with green colour are not blocks, but are intended for informative rules. For example, you can use this to indicate that you offer special prices at certain times or that maintenance work is currently being carried out on the pitch:
- The one with grey colour colour are always valid for the whole day except for the last option and no bookings can be made. This setting is needed if, for example, you want to release the start times on the back 9 holes for viewing but they cannot be booked.
4. This rule applies to the following booking methods Specify here for which booking method (online only, on-site only, both, etc.) the rule should be applied.
5. Override rule only with special rights If this option is activated, this rule can no longer be overridden by local employees with basic access and prevents a booking. Employees must have supervisor status or full sales access to make a booking despite such a rule.
6. Application from the day of booking The rule applies from the day of booking for the next X days: e.g. for the next 3 days → day 1 to 3 / for tomorrow → day 1 to 1.
7. Special Special commands for rules that cannot be created via the standard settings can be entered here. PC CADDIE distinguishes between the following commands:
- FAREA:0901 Automatic follow-up bookings are made with this rule at a time other than the normal follow-up booking area (customisation possible). 0901 is representative of any timetable abbreviation. For example, holes 10-18 are always closed on Monday, the follow-up bookings should then be booked on the 9-hole course.
- MAXPR:2 or MAXPR:1 A maximum of 2 course-ready players may be booked in one game.
- MAXC6:2 A maximum of 2 players in HCP category 6 may be booked in one game.
Here is no adjustment is possible, this is a fixed rule.
8. Customer information in case of blocking Please only fill in this field if the field description field is too short. Otherwise you may have to search for a very long time to find out which rule is responsible online, for example.
*M Bookable for members only! |
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From the point of view of the online database, the registered person must be a club member in order to be allowed to book. |
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In the tab Areas tab, you can specify the timetable areas to which the rule should apply. Some area must always be ticked here:
Under Areas, you only determine which courts/trainers etc. the rule should also apply to.
In contrast to the following screenshot, it checks under the tab Areas tab, it does NOT check across the board. Instead, the areas are listed again in the tab Booking restriction tab. However, these are rarely ticked:
Now test the rules in detail. Via the menu Timetable/Define timetable rules menu takes you to the main dialogue of the timetable rules. Select the rule to be tested and click on the Test.
Define the person, date and time of the desired booking and test your settings. PC CADDIE shows you all the rules that are active at this time. The entries in brackets apply in the selected period, but do not warn or restrict this person/booking. Entries without brackets would result in a warning.
This warning can be displayed depending on the Display tab, this warning can also be displayed in the timetable if a corresponding booking is made.
Enter clear names or information to be displayed in the rules.
About Booking on you can actually pretend that the important day for you is „X“.
To ensure that newly created time table rules are also immediately active for online bookings, they must be synchronised in the Club Manager. To do this, click on the link on your info desktop:
then go to Teetimes:
and compare the timetable rules online with the local ones:
If you select a rule in the list with the mouse, hold down the Ctrl key (or the Ctrl key on international keyboards) and then click on „New“, you can create an exact copy of the selected rule and then save it again with different times etc., for example.
Highlight special price models or daily specials visually on the timetable. Also visible online and bookable for your guests on request.
Make sure that all persons making bookings are informed about work on the course or aerified greens:
This rule is particularly practical for freelance trainers, as it prevents someone from booking a lesson 10 minutes in advance while the trainer is having lunch because nothing was booked.
This corresponds to the formula FROM:-0,-4:00which can be found under Special in the Display tab.
In the local timetable, this looks like this, so the secretariat is also notified:
In PC CADDIE://online this looks as follows:
Filter + time tab:
Tab Booking restriction:
Always enter one day less than the pre-booking so that the TT remains securely blocked:
Tab Display:
If this setting applies to everyone, nothing needs to be defined here. If members and guests have different pre-booking options, the corresponding groups of people must be warned.
Is there snow in your area at the moment, or do you simply not need starting times in the off-season (winter)? Then we recommend the following timetable rule.
Now go to the PC CADDIE://online Club Manager and there on Teetimes. There you can use Query rules from the local PC CADDIE system upload the rules again. Likewise in the PC CADDIE://online Club Manager you can use Texts to publish a text like this:
Dear members, dear guests,
At the moment you do not need any start times. For your information, you can still view the allocation. If you have any questions or concerns about the most beautiful pastime in the world, please do not hesitate to contact us personally on +49 1234 567890.
Your Golfclub Sonnenschein Team
This is what it finally looks like in PC CADDIE://online - the occupancy is visible (morning frost can be inserted via closures), but nobody can book in.
This rule with different text is just as helpful for systems where no start time booking is necessary on working days. The customer can view the informative occupancy and therefore knows exactly when he cannot play.
With a rule like the one described above, you can quickly and easily create a coach away from home using the abbreviation *K and a suitable text in the rule description to block the desired trainer for a certain period of time.
If you want to limit the number of bookings per user to a maximum, define the following rule:
Here it is defined that a maximum of 2 bookings can be made on the current day (within +/- days 0)
For the start lists in the competition there is the „Flight separation“. Read the section „Sequence“! The same can also be activated for the timetable:
Create a rule by clicking on „new“. You can leave the default settings and only enter the following in the „Display“ tab under Special: FTCHK
The following message appears:
If you do not want the sum of the handicaps in a flight to exceed an upper limit, this rule must be created.
Online booking: The HCP is automatically saved when booking and thus checked for each player, whether individually or as a flight.
Local: The HCP is saved for each individual booking and a warning is issued if the upper limit is exceeded.
When booking an entire flight, the rule only applies if this special parameter has been entered: TIME_AUTOSAVE. To ensure that this takes effect in the right place, please contact support@pccaddie.com.
You would like to give everyone the chance to play golf in the summer and therefore limit the number of bookings for all players.
Set the desired period. Here in the example we use from 01.06.2023 to 31.08.2023
Then set the corresponding booking restriction. It is essential to tick the box „Only include the days in this rule“.
It is also necessary to enter the special LIMITDATFT under „Display“:
You only want to authorise a certain number of 9 or 18-hole rounds per year for a certain group of people.
Set the person filter and the time period.
Then set the corresponding booking restriction. It is essential to tick the box „Only include the days in this rule“.
In our example, both 9-hole and 18-hole courses can be booked, so the holes should be counted rather than the number of bookings.
It is also necessary to enter the special LIMITDATFT under „Display“:
Do you have the option of booking the trainer online for 30(25) minutes, 60(50) minutes or 90(75) minutes? Then you can now also enter the automatic article for online payment or locally.
Create the articles (individually or as a colour/size combination)
3 rules must now be created for the articles.
Important! The grid of the timetable must be adhered to for the duration. Here in the example, the customer has 25 minutes available, in the local PC CADDIE the grid is set to 30 minutes!
Important! The colour/size combination must also be set: Always choose exactly this item!
Fill in each colour/size combination with the correct duration and number of people
and usually enter the duration and number of persons with a hyphen.
Sub-articles: Automatic!
Corona measures at the club
With our start time system, you can organise play in the event of the opening of golf courses under official regulations. Filter restrictions in the start time system can be automated to ensure that only a specified number of players in a flight are on the course at specified intervals - without any staff contact.
Here you will find examples that you can set using the timetable rules. These examples can be combined with each other. We recommend that you create a separate rule for each restriction or measure.
Please contact our support hotline if you need assistance.
You can define timetable rules / booking restrictions in PC CADDIE under the menu item Timetable/Define timetable rules or in the timetable via the key combination Ctrl + F11
In the telephone conference between the Federal Chancellor and the heads of government of the federal states on 28 October 2020, the participants made various decisions on „combating the SARS-Cov2 pandemic“, which also have an impact on golf courses in Germany. Golf as an individual sport may be played alone, in pairs or with your own household.
Please clarify how to deal with existing bookings. For example, there are certainly already bookings with 4 people who are not from the same household.
Please remember that newly created rules must be synchronised in the Club Manager so that they are immediately valid online! The description can be found above under Synchronise booking rules online
To limit the number of people within a flight, please create the rule as follows:
Tab „Filter and time“:
Booking restriction„ tab:
Display“ tab:
Areas„ tab:
You can use the following rule to block a start time for further bookings. For example, it would be possible that someone can only book a start time online for themselves or with a friend, but no one else can book it afterwards.
Filter and time“ tab:
Display„ tab:
Areas“ tab:
In this example, we assume that you want to allocate start times from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm at 10-minute intervals, but with breaks between flights.
If you want to allocate other times and/or use a different time grid, simply adjust this accordingly in your rule.
„After a booked start time, two start times (20 minutes) should be paused“.
To do this, create a new rule that prohibits starting between the permitted times prohibited:
Filter and time„ tab:
Display“ tab
Areas„ tab:
If only your members are allowed to book start times, create a new rule as follows:
Tab „Filter and time“:
Display“ tab:
Areas„ tab:
If the players book the start times without selection, enter the rule as follows:
Enter the area for which this rule applies in the Areas tab.
The most important information for this rule in brief:
In clubs that offer alternatively 9 or 18 holes (with follow-up booking option), i.e. actually book 2×9 holes when 18 holes are played, 2 bookings must then also be „thought“ for 18 holes. Do not forget to tick the areas in which the count should be active:
Only golfers may enter their Covid status in their own PC CADDIE online login. This is voluntary information in connection with the regulation on the facilitation of protective measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
To help your members, here is a brief description:
Log in and open „My settings“
Please select your personal status:
This option is only available for German golf clubs.
Every change of status of the golfer in the online login is transferred to the golf club with the next booking and overwrites the old information!
In order for these adjustments to be adopted in the local Pc Cadddie, adjustments must be made in the Club Manager under Teetimes and then Settings.
As soon as these are stored, the club receives this information as:
and from version 31.01.2022 additionally
Only the syringe is displayed. You can only see whether a test has taken place by looking at the date at the top.
The green tick means that the status of the person has been checked.
Any change to the golfer's status in the online login is transferred to the golf club the next time a booking is made and overwrites the old information! The check is therefore removed again.
If the need arises that a booking can only take place with a Covid certificate, a rule must be configured in the timetable.
Number | Name | Name Description |
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1. | Open the Define timetable rules window | Click on „Timetable“ in the PC CADDIE tab and then click on „Set timetable rules“. |
2. | Define a new rule | Click on “+ New„ in the timetable rule window |
3. | Name and display | In the Edit timetable rule window, enter a name in the „Filter + time“ tab („Only bookable with Covid certificate“). In the „Display“ tab, enter MAXCOVID:0 in the „Special“ text box. The 0 stands for the number of people allowed without a Covid certificate. |
4. | Confirm and save | Click on „OK“ and then „Save“. |
Nothing needs to be changed in the 3G timetable rule. The 2G results from the configuration of the validity.
Validity:. Tested = Zero (instead of 2 days)
In the local Pc Caddie you still get the Covid status with the test date, but this person is not authorised for the booking because the validity is missing
If only people whose certificate has been checked by the secretariat are allowed to book, tick this box:
Please bear in mind that this rule only allows people to book whose proof of vaccination has already been stored and checked in the personal data in the local PC CADDIE. All players who should/want to submit the status will be rejected and must provide the information both in person and in the online login.
If a customer has been boostered, this can be entered in PC CADDIE with the corresponding status. Please note: The golfer's details take priority. This means that the customer must also change their status in their PCCO login from vaccinated to boostered and adjust the date, otherwise the status stored in the local PC CADDIE will be overwritten with that of the login!