The program is multi-user. Timelord stores all of your timetabling data in a database. The database system  (the Open Source Firebird Relational Database) - is automatically installed on your desktop PC to create a single user system or on your network server to support multiple users (no limit), and the Browser based Student Registers.

The Timelord Package download is all you need to set up the complete system. Three databases are included: a demo, a skeleton and an empty database. To create or duplicate a database just do an ordinary Windows copy on an existing database - you do not have to do anything with the Database server.

The Timelord interface design design rationale assumes that, if you manually timetable, you begin with a landscape piece of A4, put a heading on (E.g. Staff name or Room name), divide it lengthwise into the days of the week and then draw in blocks of time on each day. Inside these block you may wish to add Staff, Course, Subject, Room and the date range the session is scheduled for etc.

Timelord seeks to emulate this method and provide the tools to assist in Moving Time blocks around, populating them, clash checking them, getting time totals and to provide 'layered' views such that a typical staff timetable is in fact a composition of Staff, Room, Subject and Course timetables.

No electronic Timetable system is a planning tool - paper and pencil are much better.

Timelord assists you in committing your provisional paper designs to an electronic format which still looks like your paper designs but now offers auto-totalling of times, clash checking, export to MS Office, multiple timetable views, overlay of one timetable over another (e.g. Room over Staff), Student Registers etc.

Timelord does not work on fixed time slots, Time blocks can be created anywhere from midnight to midnight in five minute increments. The display has Hour lines, Quarter hour lines and Five minute lines - all of which may be colour customised. You may have a Time block 5 mins long or one 24 hours long. (Thin time blocks when exported to MS Excel have the text oriented 90 degrees).

To navigate around your timetables, use the Navigator to select the timetable to be viewed, select overlays and configure the Navigator to personal preference.

The Navigator can be undocked.

Time block operations are centralised to the Time block popup menu