Feature Requests

When entering holidays into Calendar it shouldn't matter if it includes a public holiday or not. It is extremely time consuming, especially when we have four centres with 50+ children. Putting christmas/new year period holidays in is an absolute nightmare.

We like to do our Rosters for a term and it would be great it there was a report/way of viewing our roster for a whole term.

Could it be considered in future updates that when you enter a leave date for a staff member, all future staff roster entries could be deleted? Also, it would be extremely helpful if a global swap staff facility were available so that staff members could be changed. Presently, these jobs are only changeable by going into each day, which is so time-consuming as we roster a term in advance.

'Date first Qualified' field in Staff tabs: This is a strange and confusing data field and I don't think it is relevant to anything? Perhaps 'Date first NZ Registered' is what it is really meant to say? 'Date Qualified' is when the qualification was complete - there can be a large gap between this and initial Registration and we don't use the 'qualification date' for anything I can think of. Please re-name or delete the field.

Currently when printing Daily Food Chart or Nappy Chart, it will say Child name (Absent) or Child name (Holiday). However it does not do this on Sunscreen Checklist. Is it possible to add this?

We use google photos to save our centre photos. This means that when writing learning stories and Individual/Group development plans our teachers have to download the photos onto the computer hard drive first before they can upload them to Playground. This is a frustrating, time consuming and 'megabyte consuming' process. We would really like it if Playground could recognise photos saved in google photos.

We would like to see conditional access names on the tablet for the staff to quickly see who is allowed to see the child.

I would like to see a standalone report similar to ‘Child Places’ that shows the Centre’s total booked places per day to ensure bookings remain within our licensed capacity without having to drill into the daily breakdown.

Service would like to have a Dashboard widget that shows a quick comparison of Attended and Forecasted hours. Currently Discover has occupancy on the dashboard, but that is only for those that actually attend, and not on the dashboard is a report under children's reports, forecasted tab with under 2's and over 2's, actuals and %. Close combination is under the Management > Centre Management tab, is a comparison vs Booked and Attended. Perhaps this as a dashboard widget?

Increase the video time limit. Currently, only short videos up to 30 seconds are supported. If possible, allow videos up to 60 seconds, even if that means reducing the number of photos permitted to make room for longer videos.