View and Edit Reservations in the Reservation Book

The Reservation Book provides a graphical view of all the confirmed reservations for your organization. Canceled bookings are not shown. You use the Reservation Book to the view information for a reservation, to edit an existing reservation, and to make a new reservation. In addition, when the Reservation Book first opens, before you edit or make a reservation, you can change the Reservation Book view so that it better suits your working needs.

This section provides:

• Open the Reservation Book
• Change the Reservation Book Display
• View Reservation Information
• Make a New Reservation
• Edit an Existing Reservation

Open the Reservation Book

1. Open EMS Desktop Client.

2. From the toolbar, click the Book icon.
   The first time that you open the Reservation Book for your EMS implementation, the Filter dialog opens on top of a blank Reservation Book. You can leave the room filtering criteria set to their default values, or you can select different values as needed, and then click OK. All reservations that meet the filtering criteria and that are scheduled for the current day’s date display in the book in the Daily view.

   You might need to use the book’s scroll features to scroll through all the reservations that are scheduled for the current day’s date.

   • If an event is scheduled for a room that is a component of a combination room, then the reservation text is displayed in black. A duplicate reservation is also shown for the combination room; however, the reservation text is displayed in gray to indicate that a component of the combination room is currently booked for the indicated time and therefore, the combination room is not available

   • If an event is scheduled for a combination room, then the reservation text for the combination room is displayed in black and the reservation text for each component is displayed in gray. This reversed color coding indicates that the component room is currently booked for the selected time and that none of the components is available.

The Reservation Book includes the following:

• Minimum and maximum capacities display next to room descriptions
• The current time is shown by a vertical line in the grid, called the Current Time Indicator
• If building hours have been configured for a building, then this information displays for the building

The reservations display with three components:

1. A left bar that indicates the setup time
2. A middle bar that indicates, by default, the event name
3. A right bar that indicates the teardown time

Change the Reservation Book Display

1. On the EMS Web Client toolbar, click the Book icon.

   The Reservation Book opens in the Daily view.

2. You can change the Reservation Book display:

   • Change the list of rooms displayed in the Reservation Book based on room properties.

   • Change the list of rooms displayed in the Reservation Book based on a specific room(s).

   • Change the Reservation Book view.

   • Change multiple display options for a reservation.

   • Select which items to include in the tooltip that opens when you place the cursor over an event in the Reservation Book.

   • Change the display date using the calendar.

   • Change the display date using the Reservation Book scroll features.

3. To change the list of rooms based on room properties:

   1. Click Filter if the Filter dialog is not already open.

   2. Select Room Properties and customize one or more of the following:

      • Leave the Building field set to the default value of (all) buildings, or select a specific building, area, or view.

      • Select a specific floor.

      • Select a specific room type.

      • Select Capacity and then enter a capacity.

      • Select Academic to limit the search to academic rooms.

      • Select a Room Availability option.

4. Click OK. 

5. To change the list of rooms displayed in the Reservation Book based on a specific room or rooms:

   1. If the Filter Rooms dialog is not already open, then above the Rooms list, click Filter to open the dialog and select Specific Room.

   2. Select the room, or Ctrl-click to select multiple rooms on the Available list.

   3. Click Move (>) to move the selected rooms to the Selected list. The Reservation Book is updated to show bookings only for the selected rooms

6. To change the Reservation Book view, in View, select Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.

7. To change multiple display options for a reservation:

   1. Click Options (upper right hand corner of Reservation Book) to open the Book Options dialog.

   2. Change multiple display options not only for the Reservation Book, but also a reservation in the book.

   Option	Description
   Start Hour	The daily start time for the Reservation Book display.
   Display	The information that displays in the middle bar for a reservation.
   Time Display Interval	Changes the granularity of the time display interval.
   Maximum Number of Rooms	The maximum number of rooms to display in the Reservation Book.
   Booking Colors Based On	The color of the bookings in the reservation. Select one: Status, Event Type, or Check-in Status (for EMS Workplace only.)
   Rooms Without Bookings	Whether to highlight rooms without bookings and if so, the highlight color. If both Highlight Rooms and Booked Space Status Only are selected, then only those rooms that do not have a Booked Space status are highlighted.
   Room Display	Display the room code or the room name for a reservation.
   Building Display	Display the building code or the building name for a reservation.
   Go To Today on Startup	If selected, the Reservation Book opens to the current day’s date; otherwise, it opens to the last date viewed.
   Always Prompt for Room Filter on Startup	If Show ‘(all)’ in Building List is also selected, then when you open the Reservation Book, the Filter dialog opens on top of the Reservation Book. You can select different options on this dialog to display only specific reservations in the book, for example, bookings only for selected rooms. If you do not select any options on this dialog, but instead simply close it, then all reservations for all rooms in all buildings are displayed in the book.
   Hide Current Time Indicator	Show or hide the vertical bar that indicates the current time for current day. The Current Time indicator is displayed only if the view is the Daily or Weekly view and the view includes the current day’s date.
   Show ‘(all)’ in Building List	Show the “all” option on the Building field. Otherwise, a user must select a specific building. If this option is selected in conjunction with Always Prompt for Room Filter on Startup, then when you open the Reservation Book, then the Filter dialog always opens on top of the Reservation Book. If you are setting your Reservation Book options, and you do not want to the Filter dialog to open on top of the Reservation Book when you open the book, then do the following: Clear Always Prompt for Room Filter on Startup. Clear Show (‘all’) in Building List. On the Building field in the Reservation Book, select any building, area, or view. The building, area, or view that you select is not important. This last step just clears the “all” building option from the Reservation Book cache and ensures that the Filter dialog does not open on top of the Reservation Book. Going forward, you can always select all buildings, or any specific building, area, or view as needed when you are working in the Reservation Book.
   Show Capacity	Show the minimum and maximum capacities next to the room description.
   Hide Booking Shadow	Hide the vertical shadow bar that highlights the reserved and/or event start times and end times when a user moves a booking in the Reservation Book.

8. To select which items to include in the tooltip that opens when you place the cursor over an event in the Reservation Book:

   1. Click Options (upper right of Reservation Book) to open the Book Options dialog. 

   2. Open the Tooltip Display tab and select which items to include in the tooltip that opens when you rest the mouse pointer on an event in the Reservation Book.

9. To change the display date using the calendar:

   1. In Date, click the drop-down arrow to open the Calendar.

   2. Use the (< and >) scroll features at the top of the calendar to change the month or use the (>) scroll features at the top of the calendar to change the year.

   3. To select a different date for a month, click the date.

10. To change the display date using the Reservation Book scroll features:

    1. Use the scroll features at the top of the reservation book display to scroll to a different day, week, month, or any different combination of these.

    2. To reset the display immediately to the current day’s date, click Today.

View Reservation Information

1. On the EMS toolbar, click the Book icon. The Reservation Book opens in the Daily view.
2. To view the reservation in the Navigator, double-click the middle bar for the reservation entry or right-click the reservation entry and on the context menu that opens, click Open.
3. You can view the reservation information in the following ways:
   • View the bookings for a room
   • View the properties for a room
   • View the pricing for a booked room
   • View the setup information, event information, or teardown information for a reservation.
4. To view the bookings for a room:
   1. Click the room name or code in the Rooms list to open the Bookings tab for the Room Info dialog. The tab on this dialog lists all the bookings for the selected room based on the current view (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) and on the date that is shown in the Date field.
   2. To view a booking in the Navigator, select the booking, and then click Open.
5. To view room properties:
   1. Click the room name or code in the Rooms list to open the Bookings tab for the Room Info dialog.
   2. Open the Room tab. The tab on this dialog lists all the properties for the room, such as the room code, the room name, the room classification, etc. It also lists the setup type and capacity for the room, and any notes that have been entered for the room.
6. To view the pricing for a booked room:
   1. Click the room name or code in the Rooms list to open the Bookings tab for the Room Info dialog.
   2. Open the Pricing tab. This tab displays any pricing information that was defined for the room.
7. To view the room setup information, event information, or teardown information for a reservation:
   1. Rest the mouse pointer on the left bar, middle bar, or right bar for the reservation entry. A tooltip showing the respective setup, event, or teardown information opens.
   2. If buildings that are located in multiple time zones are currently displayed, you can specify the time zone in which to view all of your bookings.

Make a New Reservation

1. On the EMS toolbar, click the Book icon.

   The Reservation Book opens in the Daily view.

2. Change the display to show the room for which you are making the reservation.
3. Select the date for which you are making the reservation.
4. In the Time Grid for the room, click and hold the left mouse button, drag the mouse to schedule the room and time, and then release the mouse button to open the Reservation Wizard.

Edit an Existing Reservation

1. On the EMS toolbar, click the Book icon. The Reservation Book opens in the Daily view.

2. To edit an existing reservation, do one or more of the following:

   Step	Action
   Change the setup time for a reservation	Drag the left bar horizontally to a new time. Click Yes in the Confirm Change dialog.
   Change the event time	Drag the middle bar horizontally to a new time. Click Yes in the Confirm Change dialog.
   Change the teardown time for a reservation	Drag the right bar horizontally to a new time. Click Yes in the Confirm Change dialog.
   Edit the reservation building, room, time, or both	Drag and drop the reservation to a new room that is the same building or in a different building, and/or to a new time. Click Yes in the Confirm Change dialog.

3. You can also right-click on a reservation in the Reservation Book, and on the context menu that opens, select one of the following:

   Option	Description
   Open	Opens a reservation in the EMS Navigator.
   Move Forward	Move the reservation date forward by one day or one week.
   Move Backward	Move the reservation date backward by one day or one week.
   Move to a Specific Date	Move the reservation to a specific date.
   Change Status	Change the status of the reservation.
   Copy Bookings	N/A Although this option is available on the context menu for a reservation, its associated functionality is currently under development.
   Swap Rooms With Another Booking	Swap the room assignments of two events. The swap option is applicable only for two events that have identical meeting patterns.
   Highlight Related Reservations	Highlights the bookings that belong to the same reservation.