Features

Rapla speaks many languages: the user interface is available in English and German, with translations of varying completeness in French, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Finnish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Czech.

Scheduling

Many specialised scheduling views besides the usual month, week and day calendars
Reservations group appointments; repeating appointments with exceptions
Conflict management — double bookings are shown before you save
Support for periods such as semesters
Read-only HTML month, week and day views
PDF and iCal export
Email notification when a resource is allocated

Administration

A fine-grained permission model: who may see, book or change what, and when
Your own resource, person and event types with their own attributes
Categories to model hierarchical organisations
Plugins and table columns configurable in the preferences

Installation

Multi-user and multi-language
Standalone application or client-server mode
Desktop client via Java Web Start / OpenWebStart — no local installation
Data in a file or a database: MySQL, PostgreSQL or HSQLDB

Supported platforms

	Platforms
Client	Linux, Windows, macOS with Java and OpenWebStart
Server	any platform with Java; Jetty included, or any servlet container such as Tomcat

Developing

Plugin architecture with about a dozen plugins
Free and open source — contribute