Overview of Configuring Rooms

A standard room is any physical space that can be booked at your facility. You can use standard rooms as components when you configure a combination room. You can configure a combination room from two or more standard rooms, or you can configure it based on a logical relationship among multiple rooms.

For example, if your organization is a student union, it might have a space that is designated as the Grand Ballroom, which is actually made of three standard rooms—Ballroom A, Ballroom B, and Ballroom C—and you can combine or divide these rooms using movable partitions.

In another example, you can configure a combination room that is called the West End and this room includes all rooms in the West End of a given building, regardless of whether the rooms are contiguous.

To configure a combination room, you must first configure the component rooms as standard rooms. You can then configure the combination room and indicate that its components are the previously defined standard rooms.

Consider the ballroom example cited above: First, define the standard rooms—Ballroom A, Ballroom B, and Ballroom C. Then, configure a room called the Grand Ballroom, give it a classification of Combo Room and indicate that it is made up of three standard rooms—Ballroom A, Ballroom B, and Ballroom C. You can also configure subsets of the Grand Ballroom, such as Ballroom AB, Ballroom AC, and Ballroom BC. As a result, when the Grand Ballroom is scheduled for an event, the three standard rooms—Ballroom A, Ballroom B, and Ballroom C are unavailable in EMS. Conversely, if you schedule one of the three standard rooms, for example, Ballroom A, then the Grand Ballroom, Ballroom AB, and Ballroom AC, are unavailable in EMS.

The table below summarizes this example.

Use an override room to book an event in a space that is not managed in EMS. When you configure an override room, you name it in a manner that indicates that the room is an override room (for example, “Override Area”), and also classify the room as “Override Description.”

When a user is searching for a specific room in the Reservation Wizard, and selects the option of Override Area, a Location field is enabled in which they must enter the specific location of this override room. By using an override room, the user can schedule a meeting. For example, Dr. Wilson’s Research Group meeting, without having Dr. Wilson’s Office configured as a room in EMS.

Events scheduled in rooms that are classified as Override Description displays in Daily reports as taking place in the location name specified, in the building in which the room is configured. Sales and Statistical reports simply report on the use of a room as you define it. For example, Override Area.