I was recently emailed this question by a user of ivtools and wanted
to let you know what this feature does. Basically it will look at your
outlook calendar and count the hours of each event you have in your
calendar and categorize the hours by these roles. This is great for
those of us who use roles to describe the different ways we spend our
time on staff. For example if I am looking at my schedule I might have
a number of personal roles (father, husband, friend, church member,
child of God) and a number of staff roles (teacher, leadership
developer, partnership developer etc). Outlook makes it easy for me to
categorize each of my appointments into one of these roles. The best
way to get a feel for whether this is helpful is to try it out. If you
use the outlook calendar and use categories simply run the report and
see what happens. If you use the calendar but haven't used categories
try add some relevant categories to your appointments (I recommend
thinking of a handful of staff roles that your job breaks down into.
rim the report and see what happens. It is an email so you can quickly
send it to someone who is supervising your partnership development etc.
Enjoy,
Jon