We are happy to announce the deployment of Indico 2.2, which includes, among other things, a brand new Room Booking User Interface. If you use Indico mainly to reserve rooms, we are sure you will appreciate this release, since it solves many known issues with the previous User Interface while making it faster and much simpler to use.

Some examples of common complaints about the Room Booking system were:

• The UI was not forgiving enough - changing your mind or looking for an alternative meant a lot of extra work;
• There was a lack of flexibility in some options - for instance, it wasn't possible to create bi-weekly bookings;
• It was impossible to focus on the rooms you really care about - since not all rooms in the Organization are necessarily of interest to you.

The new Room Booking Interface solves these and many other issues.

Among others, this user interface introduces:

• Easy filtering of results;
• Easy switching between views;
• Integrated map-based view;
• Alternative booking suggestions;
• Possibility to split recurrent bookings when modifying them;
• Better ways to create bookings from events;

You can consult a more exhaustive description of those features in this blog post.

Not only Room Booking

But Indico 2.2 also includes some other things you will like:

• A better event log interface - it can handle events of any size with no performance degradation;
• Possibility to customise, per event, the way speaker names are displayed;
• Lots and lots of bug fixes and small improvements - those technically inclined can consult the full list here;