Navigator Overview

This section provides an overview of opening a reservation in the Navigator, its layout and folder structure, and commands.

This topic provides information on the following:

Open a Reservation in the Navigator
Open a Reservation through the Reservation Book
Open a Reservation through a Group
Open a Reservation through a Search
Layout and Folder Structure
Navigator Commands
- Navigator Options Dialog
- Other Navigator Commands

Open a Reservation in the Navigator

After you create a new reservation using the Reservation Wizard, the reservation opens automatically in the Navigator. You can also manually open the Navigator by:

Select a reservation, booking, or service order to open directly in the Navigator. See steps below.
Open a reservation through the Reservation Book.
Open a reservation through a group.
Open a reservation through a search.

On the toolbar, click the Navigator icon.

In Open, select an item: reservation, booking, or service order.
Do one of the following:
- In No., enter the number for the reservation, service order, or booking, and then click OK.
- To enter the last reservation, booking, or service order that you made during your current or last EMS session, double-click in the field, and then click OK.

If you don't know the reservation number, you can search for the reservation. On the Open Navigator dialog, click Browse to open the Browser.

Open a Reservation through the Reservation Book

On the toolbar, click the Book icon to open the Reservation Book, and then in the Reservation Book, double-click a booking for the reservation to open the reservation in the Navigator. See Also: View and Edit Reservations in the Reservation Book.

Open a Reservation through a Group

You can search for a reservation for a group and open the reservation in the Navigator from the group-specific window. See Also: Reservations for a Group.

Open a Reservation through a Search

You can search for a reservation using the Browser, the Web Reservation Tool, and/or the Calendar, and then double-clicking the search result entry to open the reservation in the Navigator.

You can also click Browse on the Open Navigator dialog to open the Browser search tool.

Layout and Folder Structure

The Navigator has three panes: left pane, a top right pane, and a bottom left pane. The left pane displays a selected reservation, all the bookings for the reservation, and the details for each booking in a Windows Explorer-style folder structure. The top-level folder is the reservation folder. The folders that are located beneath a reservation folder are the booking folders. The folders that are located beneath a booking folder are the booking detail folders. The top right pane of the Navigator displays different tabs and options depending on the folder or item that is selected in the left pane of the Navigator. The bottom right pane of the Navigator functions just like a browser window (See Also: Getting Started with EMS), and it also displays different information and options depending on the folder or item that is selected in the left pane.

Reservation Folder

A reservation folder contains the who and the what information for the reservation. When you select a reservation folder in the left pane of the Navigator, the reservation number is displayed in the title bar of the Navigator, and the following tabs are displayed in the upper right pane of the Navigator:

Reservation Summary tab – Displays information about the selected reservation, including the event name, the group for which the reservation was made, the group contact name, the group contact phone number, and the reservation number.
Properties tab – Displays not only the same information as the Reservation Summary tab, but also information such as the event type, the second group contact, the date that the reservation was added, the date that the reservation was changed, and so on.
Billing Reference Allocation tab – By default, the charge for a reservation is allocated to a single billing reference number. On the Billing Reference Allocation tab, you can allocate the charge for a reservation to multiple billing reference numbers by percentage. See Also: Allocating charges to multiple billing reference numbers and/or PO numbers.
Your EMS administrator must enable the Use Billing Reference Allocation parameter for this tab to be displayed. See Also: EMS System Parameters.
PO Number Allocation tab – By default, the charge for a reservation is allocated to a single purchase order (PO) number. On the PO Number Allocation tab, you can allocate the charge for a reservation to multiple billing PO numbers by percentage. See Also: Allocating Charges to Multiple Billing Reference Numbers and/or PO Numbers.
Your EMS administrator must enable the Use PO Number Allocation parameter for this tab to be displayed. See Also: EMS System Parameters.
Reminders tab – Displays any reminders that were created for the selected reservation. See Also: Comments and Reminders in the Navigator.
Comments – Displays any text entries that were made for the selected reservation. See Also: Comments and Reminders in the Navigator.
Attachments tab – Displays any attachments (files) that have been saved with the reservation. See Also: Attachments in the Navigator.
User Defined Fields – Displays the additional fields that store custom data for a reservation. Your EMS administrator configures the types of fields that are available as well as the allowed values for these fields. See Also: User Defined Fields in the Navigator.
Transactions – Displays any invoices that were generated for the selected reservation or any payments that were applied to the selected reservation. See Billing, for detailed information about invoices and other financial transactions in EMS.
History tab – Displays the history for the reservation: the date that a change was made to the reservation, the ID of the user who made the change, the field that was changed, the old field value, and the new field value.
Emails tab – Displays any summarizing information for any emails that were sent via SMTP to the group for whom the reservation was made. See Also: Sending Email from EMS.

Also, when you select a reservation folder:

All the tabs in the upper pane of the window have some of the basic features of an EMS browser window. You can change the width of the data columns, you can sort the data columns on a tab in either ascending or descending sort order, and you can rearrange the column order by dragging a column to a new location using the column heading. See Also: EMS Browser Window.
The bookings for the selected reservation are displayed in the Bookings pane (the lower right pane) of the Navigator. The colored rectangle to the left of a booking indicates the booking's status. If a booking has been canceled, a Canceled icon is displayed on the booking folder in both the Reservation (left) pane and the Bookings pane.
You can right-click in the upper pane and open a context menu with options for emailing the group for which the reservation was made, or the first contact for the group.

Allocate Charges to Multiple Billing Reference Numbers and/or PO Numbers

The following procedure details how to allocate a reservation charge to multiple billing reference numbers. By analogy, you can follow this procedure to allocate booking charges or booking detail charges to multiple billing reference numbers and/or PO numbers.

For a selected reservation, open the Billing Reference Allocation tab, and then click Edit. The Billing Reference Allocation dialog opens. By default, when this dialog first opens, it displays the charge for the reservation allocated 100% to a single billing reference number placeholder.

Select the billing reference number placeholder, and then click Edit. The Split Billing Add dialog opens.

Do one of the following:
- Enter the billing reference number to which you are allocating the reservation charges, and then click OK. The Split Billing Add dialog closes. You return to the Billing Reference Allocation dialog with the newly added billing reference number allocated at 100%. Continue to Step 5.
- Click the Search icon to open a Billing References dialog, and then do one of the following:
- Select a billing reference number from the list, click Select, and then click OK.
- In Find, enter a search string, and then click Display to display a list of all billing reference numbers that meet your search criteria. Select the appropriate billing reference number from the search results, click Select, and then click OK.
- The Billing References dialog closes. You return to the Split Billing Add dialog with the selected billing reference number displayed in the dialog.

Your search is limited to the exact order of the characters in the string, but the string is not case-sensitive, and it can appear anywhere in the search results. For example, a search string of 445 returns both 123.445.678 and 445.678.123.

Click OK. The Billing Reference Allocation dialog displays with the selected billing reference number allocated at 100%.
Do one of the following:
- To allocate the reservation charges to only this single billing reference number, click OK. The Billing Reference Allocation dialog closes and you return to the Navigator. The newly added billing reference number, allocated at 100%, is displayed on the Billing Reference Allocation tab.
- To allocate the reservation charges to multiple billing reference numbers.
Click New. The Split Billing Add dialog opens.

Do one of the following:
- In Billing Reference, enter a billing reference number, then click OK.
- Click the Search icon to open a Billing References dialog , and then do one of the following:
- Select a billing reference number from the list, click Select, and then click OK.
- In the Find field, enter a search string, and then click Display to display a list of all billing reference numbers that meet your search criteria. Select the appropriate billing reference number from the search results, click Select, and then click OK.

The Split Billing Add dialog closes. You return to the Billing Reference Allocation dialog with each of the newly added billing reference numbers displayed with a 0% allocation.

Repeat Step 6 and Step 7 until you have added all the needed billing reference numbers.
For each new billing reference number, double-click in the Percent field to select the percent, and then change the percent to the appropriate value.

The percentages must add up to 100%.

Click OK to close the Billing Reference Allocation dialog and return to the Billing Reference Allocation tab. All the billing reference numbers and their percent allocations are displayed on the tab.

Booking Folder

Booking folders contain the where and when information for the reservation. If you can expand a booking folder, this indicates that details have been added to the booking. The booking details for the selected booking are displayed in the Booking Details pane (the lower right pane) of the Navigator. A green background for a booking detail folder indicates that one or more booking detail items have been invoiced for the booking.

When you select a booking folder in the left pane of the Navigator, the booking number is displayed in the title bar of the Navigator, and the following tabs are displayed in the upper right pane of the Navigator:

Booking Summary tab – Displays information about the selected booking, including the event date, the reserved time, the event time, and so on. If you use Outlook as your email program, you can do the following from this tab:
- To add the selected booking to your personal calendar, click Outlook > Add to Personal Calendar.
- To send invitations for the meeting to one or more contacts in your Outlook Address Book, click Outlook > Send Invitation.
Properties tab – Displays not only the same information as the Booking Summary tab, but also information such as the event type, the setup count, the date that the booking was added, the date that the booking was changed, and so on.
Billing Reference Allocation tab—By default, the charge for a booking is allocated to a single billing reference number. On the Billing Reference Allocation tab, you can allocate the charge for a booking to multiple billing reference numbers by percentage. See Also: Allocating charges to multiple billing reference numbers and/or PO numbers.
Your EMS administrator must enable the Use Billing Reference Allocation parameter for this tab to be displayed. See Also: EMS System Parameters.
PO Number Allocation tab – By default, the charge for a booking is located to a single purchase order (PO) number. On the PO Number Allocation tab, you can allocate the charge for a reservation to multiple billing PO numbers by percentage. See Also: Allocating Charges to Multiple Billing Reference Numbers and/or PO numbers.>
Your EMS administrator must enable the Use PO Number Allocation parameter for this tab to be displayed. See Also: EMS System Parameters.
Reminders tab – Displays any reminders that were created for the selected booking. See Also: Comments and Reminders in the Navigator.
Attachments – Displays any attachments that were saved with the booking. See Also: Attachments in the Navigator.
Comments – Displays any comments that were made for the selected booking. See Also: Comments and Reminders in the Navigator.
Drawings – Displays a list of files that were attached to the selected booking. See Also: Drawings in the Navigator.
History – Displays a list of changes made for the selected booking: the date the change was made to the booking, the user who made the change to the booking, and information (field) that was changed for the booking.

Also, when you select a booking folder, all the tabs in the upper pane of the window have some of the same basic features of an EMS browser window. You can change the width of the data columns, you can sort the data columns on a tab in either ascending or descending sort order, and you can rearrange the column order by dragging a column to a new location using the column heading.

Booking Detail Folder

If you can expand a booking folder, this indicates that details have been added to the booking. Booking details, which are also called categories, are the services (catering, A/V equipment, and so on), notes, attendees, activities, and room charges that you can add to a booking.

Booking detail folders and booking detail items are discussed in Booking Details and Items Overview.

Navigator Commands

The Navigator has two constant commands in the upper left hand corner: Open Reservation and View Alerts and three constant commands in the upper right hand corner: Print, Refresh, and Settings.

Command	Description
Open Reservation	Allows you to open and work with multiple reservations in the same Navigator session. See Opening a reservation directly in the Navigator.
View Alerts	Open and view any alerts that have been generated for the selected reservation, booking, or a booking detail that is a service order or catering category.
Print	Print an invoice or a confirmation at the reservation level. Print the Setup Worksheet for Reservation report, the Service Orders report, and the Banquet Event Order report. Print the Transaction report. Print the history of a reservation, all its bookings, and all its booking detail items.
Refresh	For refreshing the Navigator display based on the settings that you have specified in the Navigator Options dialog.
Settings	Options – Opens the Navigator Options dialog in which you can specify such things as what is to be displayed in the Navigator, mouse actions in the Navigator, and so on. Confirmation Settings – Opens the Confirmation Settings dialog which provides a variety of options that you can specify for manual and automatic generation of a confirmation for a reservation or a booking.

All other navigator commands are available as buttons in the upper right pane and lower right pane of the Navigator.

Navigator options Dialog

The Navigator Options dialog has three tabs: General, At a Glance, and Highlight Categories.

General Tab

General tab – On the General tab, you select the options for such things as which types of bookings to show in the Navigator (old bookings and/or canceled bookings), the result of double-clicking a listed folder (opens the item or expands the folder), the booking time that is displayed (reserved time or event time), and the highlight color for invoiced items.

Field	Description
General
Show Old Bookings	Show bookings in the Navigator that occurred before the current day's date.
Show Canceled Bookings	Selected, show bookings in the Navigator with a canceled status.
Show Wizards in Tools menu	Show all on the Tools menu in the Bookings pane. If cleared, show only the "Wizards" option, which you must click to open a form from which you can select a tool.
Show Deleted Item	Show all deleted items (bookings, deleted resource items, and so on) for a reservation in the Navigator.
Hide Empty Tabs	Hide the tabs that do not have any data displayed on them for a selected reservation, booking, or booking detail.
Double-Clicking a Listed Folder
Opens the item	Opens the item for editing.
Expands folder	Opens the next level of folders.
Wizard Results
Always Show	Show a confirmation of all changes, regardless if they were successful, on a Wizard Results page.
Show Unchanged Only	Show only those changes that were not successful on a Wizard Results page.
Confirmation
Always prompt	When you click Confirmation, opens a Confirmation filter which you can use to change the default filter options for a confirmation before generating it.
Print Preview	When you click Confirmation, opens an onscreen preview of the confirmation.
Email	When you click Confirmation, opens an email of the confirmation.
Print	When you click Confirmation, prints an immediate confirmation.
Booking Display Time
Reserved Time	Show the total time for which the space is reserved. This time is the event time plus the setup/teardown times.
Event Time	Show only the event time for which the space is reserved.
Invoiced Items
Highlight Color	The color with which invoiced items are highlighted in the Navigator window.
Service Orders
Show Pricing	Show pricing on a service order.
Show Item Notes	Show item notes on a service order.
Show Item Special Instructions	Show special instructions for items on a service order.
Highlight Changes Made Within (days)	Highlight any changes that have been made to a service order within the specified number of days.
Footer Message	Show reconfigured blocks of text that appear in footer of a service order (for example, a Cancellation policy).
Booking Edit
Auto Adjust Reserved Time When Event Time is Changed	If the reservation includes setup and/or teardown times, then automatically adjust the total time for the reservation (the event time plus the setup/teardown time) when the event time is changed.

At a Glance Tab

On the At a Glance tab, you specify whether reminders, comments, attachments, and so on are to be displayed in the left pane of the Navigator when a reservation folder, booking folder, booking detail folder, and/or booking detail item is opened.

Highlight Categories Tab

On the Highlight Categories tab, you indicate whether a checkmark is to be displayed on all booking detail item folders for the selected booking detail. The default is to Highlight All, which means every booking detail item folder for every booking detail is denoted with a checkmark.

Other Navigator Commands

All other Navigator commands are available as buttons in the upper right pane and lower right pane of the Navigator. The buttons that are available are dynamically updated based not only on the folder or item that is currently selected in the left pane of the Navigator, but also on the tab that is open in the upper right pane of the Navigator.

Buttons available in the Navigator window with a reservation folder selected

Buttons available in the Navigator window with a booking folder selected

Buttons available in the Navigator window with a booking detail folder selected

Many of these same commands are also available on a context menu, which is a menu that opens when you right-click on a folder or item in the Navigator. All the context menus that are available in the Navigator offer a limited set of choices based on the folder or item that is selected in the Navigator.

Comparing context menus