Area: Create a Booking [VCon UG]
Reaching the Create a Booking Area
The “Create a Booking Area” can be reached from the main UI by selecting the “Create a Booking” option (2) from the “Actions” dropdown (1).
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The Create a Booking Area Overview
The screenshot below represents the entirety of the “Create a Booking Area”.
The area can be broken down into the following sections:
Search (1)
Specification (2)
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Section: Search
This section of the area enables users to find specific bookings components (Key Concepts [VCon UG] | Booking-Component).
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Based on the matches displayed in the search result list, users can then perform the following actions.
Duplicate (1): Selecting a specific item, users can use the values for an existing booking component and prefill their new booking component.
Delete (2): Selecting a specific item, users can choose to delete an existing booking component.
Add New Booking Component (3): This gives you the option to create an empty booking component.
Section: Specification
This section, which acts a tab, can be used to specify the main parameters for each booking component. Users can have these prefilled by selection the “Delete” action in the search section.
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The following fields are available:
Start Date/Time (1): These specify the starting date for the booking component to begin recording.
Duration (2): This specifies how long the recording must last once initiated. This can be used as an alternative to the end date/time parameter.
End Date/Time (3): These specify the end of the recording. This can be used as an alternative to the duration parameter.
Source and Destination (4): This specifies the ingest source for the booking component and the intended recording. The destination parameter specifies the devices or allocation of devices (port) in the form of a pool used for the recording.
Acting as tab, is anchored to the booking component one is either creating or selected for editing. As such, switching to a different booking component in the list will express the respective values in the specification tab.
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