User Guide
Plan and share a schedule
This guide is for everyone using MP-OPT without maintaining its servers. Start with the outcome you need; technical infrastructure details live in the Operator Guide and Technical Reference.
From a planning idea to everyone's calendar
Planning stays local until you deliberately publish a finished schedule.
Desktop app
Define, optimise, review, and finalise
MP-OPT Server
Private masterplan and public General Schedule
Google Calendar
Personal calendar distribution
Light A4 portrait schedule with printable task details
People and organisers
Browser, installed web app, or calendar
Choose your journey
Create a schedule
Install the desktop app, create the planning inputs, optimise, review, and finalise.
Follow the quick startUse a published calendar
Activate your account with a passkey, find your event, and view your schedule.
Open the calendar guideAdminister an event
Manage events, users, roles, announcements, schedule history, and audit information.
Open the admin guidePublish a final plan
Choose any combination of MP-OPT Server, Google Calendar, and PDF, and understand exactly what is replaced or created.
Open the publishing guideSchedule data lifecycle
Publishing copies a deliberate final state. It does not expose the working project database.
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Planning inputs
People, capabilities, locations, templates
2
Task instances
Editable event-specific work
3
Optimised result
Suggested times and assignments
4
Final schedule
Reviewed tasks and assignments
5
Published copy
Full event or selected dates