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RoomBooker

Rating: Number of ratings:	Developer Name:	Elearningforce Inc.	Version:	1.1.7
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	Added:	Jul 3, 2007	License:	Commercial License

This component is for booking of rooms, lessons, classes or similar issues. A room could be many other things……

The company/school/institution using this component can have:
• Many buildings
• Many rooms
• Many staff members doing the booking
• Many classes

All the actions from the staff members are done in the front end after login.
Guest and/or Reg.users can browse the bookings but cannot edit/delete.

The intension for this comp. is also to have an add-in for our upcoming LMS but also for being a stand-alone component.

Admin back end – logged in Administrator

Buildings - add, edit, delete name
Rooms - add, edit, delete name, assign rooms to building
Periods - add, edit, delete name
Could be: 8.30-9.15, 9.15-10.00, and so on……….
Booking types
- add, edit, delete name fx, Education, Meeting……….
Importance type
- add, edit, delete name fx. High, Middle, Low
Class name - add, edit, delete name
Language - add, edit, delete language for all text and labels, set default language
Language files can be exported and imported

Find and edit/delete booking
By user, date, user, class, building, room…… If you delete it and it is a recurring type you are asked: Only delete this booking or also any recurring booking?

Delete all bookings before: Select date - Delete

Front end Staff Members

Menu
Buildings and rooms
My bookings
New booking
Reports

ALL PAGES

On ALL pages are shown 3 calendars besides each other showing this and the 2 next months. Today is highlighted. Click on a date and the bookings for this date are shown in a list sorted by building – room name and showing for each booking:

Periods
Short description
Staff member name
Class name

If you click on a booking you are shown all the info about it.

If and ONLY if you are the owner of this booking you can edit, save and delete it. If you delete it and it is a recurring type you are asked: Only delete this booking or also any recurring booking? Return to Buildings and Rooms.


Buildings and rooms

Select bookings for:

Building: dropdown box with all the buildings
Rooms: dropdown box with all rooms from the selected building
You can select one or more rooms by holding Ctrl. Key pressed
Date: choose date

Search:

A list sorted by buildings is shown

Campus One
Room 1
Booking info
Booking info

Room 2
Booking info
Booking info

And so on
Campus Two
Room 1
Room 2
And so on

Click on a room name and the bookings for this room for today are shown in the table with periods

Now you can click a period. If it is free (no booking) you can add a booking. If it is occupied + it is YOUR booking you can edit/delete it. If you delete it and it is a recurring type you are asked: Only delete this booking or also any recurring booking?
If you want another date shown for booking in this room you click a date in the calendars, the bookings for this date for the same room are shown.
Now you can click a period. If it is free (no booking) you can add a booking. If it is occupied + it is YOUR booking you can edit/delete it.
IF you have selected a date BEFORE TODAY you can of course NOT add a booking.

My bookings

Select my bookings for:

Building: dropdown box with all the buildings
Rooms: dropdown box with all rooms from the selected building
You can select one or more rooms by holding Ctrl. Key pressed
Date: choose date
Class name dropdown box with all class names
Period(s): dropdown box with all periods from values set up in the back end
You can select one or more periods by holding Ctrl. Key pressed


Search:

The logged in staff member bookings are shown in a list sorted by buildings and can be sorted by clicking on the headers by:
• Buildings
• Rooms
• Date
• Class name
• Type
• Importance type

Also the short description is shown for each booking.

Click a booking and have all the info shown. You can edit, save and delete it. If you delete it and it is a recurring type you are asked: Only delete this booking or also any recurring booking? Return to My bookings


New booking

Short Description
Long description
Date
Period(s): select period(s) (values set in the backend by administrator) from dropdown box
All day

Building: select building (after selection the data in the next dropdown box Rooms are changed to show only Rooms in the selected building)
Room: Select room from dropdown box

Type: from values set in back end
Importance: from values set in back end
Class: from values set in back end

Recurring type:
None
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Yearly
Monthly same day
For x weeks

If x weeks -> put x (fx 5 weeks)
If weekly -> select day: Monday, Thursday, Wednesday……
Recurring ending:
Date

Save booking and get an e-mail showing the booking info in details!

If new booking collides with existing booking:

ALERT:
Your request for this booking collides with an existing booking with this info:
Building
Room
Date
Staff member name
Short description

1. Please correct your choices – Click here
2. To go to the colliding booking – Click here


- 1. You are returned to the info for the new booking you could not save to make some changes.
- 2. You are taken to the colliding booking

Reports

Here you can do a search using a lot of parameters to find bookings.

Start date
End date
Building (select one of many)
Room: dropdown -> select one or more (Hold down Ctrl. Key and click)
Type: dropdown -> select one or more (Hold down Ctrl. Key and click)
Short description (text)
Long description (text)
Staff member name: dropdown -> select one or more (Hold down Ctrl. Key and click)
Importance: dropdown -> select one or more (Hold down Ctrl. Key and click)
Recurring types: dropdown -> select one or more (Hold down Ctrl. Key and click)
Class name: dropdown -> select one or more (Hold down Ctrl. Key and click)

Sort by Building
Room
Staff member name
Date
Period
Importance
Type

Show in report:
Short description
Staff member name
And so on…….
All info

Click and Show bookings -> list on screen where a click on the headers sort the list.
The report can be:
Printed
Exported to CSV
Saved as PDF

New update 19.June2007
Added features: reg. user can do bookings + e-mail confirmation of booking - weekly view + data shown correct in diff. languages + corrected some SEO problems and a couple of small bugs.