I am trying to see of if the Buildings/Rooms entity model in the native Marketing Events feature is powerful enough to act as a venue operations system for a medium size venue with multiple venues to hire to customers. I can see that the feature is designed for a business to run their own events to generate internal income, but I am seeing if this will work for an event manager to create venue hire bookings, select resources, and send quotes to outside venue hire customers, who would manage their own guests and actual marketing activities.
Is this a recommended path to try? I have used the Dymamics 365 Marketing trial to create some test examples, and I can see how it could be possible, but ran into some challenges that make me thing it's not a good idea. Some challenges I've seen:
- Marketing Calendar only showing /Live/ events, making it hard to see confirmed and tentative bookings.
- Multi day events not showing times on calendar, just all day indicator like in Outlook.
- No native supporty for resources and cost for Rooms, equipment or people.
- Sessions only available in drilling down on Event, not shown on Calendar
- All Events being the same color on calendar, making it hard to see difference between events and other uses like cleaning times.
Do these seem like obvious problems that could be fixed with custom entities, or is there a recommended custom solution that is better used than marketing events?
