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L J Bayuk | 1 Feb 2001 03:30
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Re: Meeting Room Booking System

Mel Corley wrote:
> 
> Hi. A really cool application.
> We have been using Netscape Calendar server to reserve meeting rooms,
> projectors, etc. for about 3 years. It still works, but it requires
> client software and our people find it difficult to use. I had some of
> our secretaries run through your demo and they like it, but they miss
> the ability to view reservations for a single resource by the week and
> month. Any plans to add weekly or monthly views of reservations for a
> single resource?
> Thanks.
> Mel Corley
> Professor of Mechanical Engineering
> Louisiana Tech University

Weekly view is written; could be in the next release (my changes are stuck
waiting for Sourceforge to be fixed). It seems to work well now on its own,
but doesn't integrate well, which is why I am not sure if it is ready to be
included. (For example, if you book an entry off the weekly view, or pick
from the mini calendars, you end up back in the daily view. I don't know,
maybe this is OK?)

Monthly is tougher, because there just isn't a lot of room to show
what needs to be shown. Maybe somebody else will come up with something
here, or maybe I'll take a shot at it soon.
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L J Bayuk | 1 Feb 2001 03:39
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Re: Resource tracking over arbitrary time spans

Ronan Cunniffe wrote:
> ...
> 
> Hi all,
>    Thought I'd de-lurk and respond to above, since I need to pull in a
> similar direction: tracking resources over an arbitrary time period.
> 
>    In my case, the resources are nodes in a computer cluster.  The
> cluster is for systems research rather than number crunching, and most
> researchers need exclusive access.  Access (and hence reservation) is
> also 24 hour, and sessions must be allowed span midnight.  This boils down
> to:
>     a) blurring the line between successive days and
>     b) tracking a resource's usage over an arbitrary length of time.
> 
>    I can hack and debug the changes myself if need be (Pride comes before
> a segfault....?), but if there's a major wish for this, then I'm most
> unlikely to be the best developer (or even a timely one ;-)

OK, I'm not sure what is missing. I've tested my version with 24 hour view
($morningstarts=0; $eveningends=23) and it does work. Unless you set
$resolution to 3600 (1 hour per slot) you will be doing a lot of scrolling,
and better have fast browser clients 'cause those tables will take a long
time to render. I think the released version will work as well in this
setup (although it has a bug in always rounding events to 30 minutes rather
than $resolution). I can see a week view would be very helpful to you; see
my other messages on that. There is a good chance weekly view will be in
the next major release.

If, on the other hand, you want to see a week or a day starting at
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Cheong, Elaine | 1 Feb 2001 06:51
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PHP 4 VS php3 on MRBS

Since I have upgraded the php to PHP version4. I realised that all my
old files with .php3 extension must change to an extension as .php 
before it will fire up. 
All the php files in the MRBS source code are .php3 files .I tried changing
one or two  to .php extension and it seems  able to run. But it will be to
tideous
to change all. Is there another solution ?

Elaine Cheong
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Sim, CT (Chee Tong | 1 Feb 2001 07:58

error message when deleting the room

Dear all,

I had encountered error when I tried to delete the room entry as shown below
but the room still can be deleted.  Can any one teach me??

Warning: Missing argument 1 for print_header() in
/home/httpd/html/mrbs/functions.inc on line 5

Warning: Missing argument 2 for print_header() in
/home/httpd/html/mrbs/functions.inc on line 5

Warning: Missing argument 3 for print_header() in
/home/httpd/html/mrbs/functions.inc on line 5

Warning: Missing argument 4 for print_header() in
/home/httpd/html/mrbs/functions.inc on line 5

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Marc ter Horst | 1 Feb 2001 09:03
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Re: PHP 4 VS php3 on MRBS

hi Elaine,

It's not hard, if you use apache just find where the ".php" extension 
is defined, and add the ".php3" one as well.
----- see below  
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 .php
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This line is in my apache for php3, but the same goes for php4. 
The extension is not that interesting, you could use ".abc" if you 
wanted, as long as you tell your server about it.
You should also find the line starting with DirectoryIndex, add 
index.php3 to it like below:
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DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.shtml index.cgi index.php3 index.php Index.php
-----
This is in general also true for other web servers, although the 
mechanisms are different in detail. 

> Since I have upgraded the php to PHP version4. I realised that all my
> old files with .php3 extension must change to an extension as .php 
> before it will fire up. 
> All the php files in the MRBS source code are .php3 files .I tried changing
> one or two  to .php extension and it seems  able to run. But it will be to
> tideous
> to change all. Is there another solution ?
> 
> Elaine Cheong
> 

Marc
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Mikkel N. Rasmussen | 1 Feb 2001 10:26
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Re: General resource manager?


Hi 

I have had some problems with our mailing system, and my previous mails did 
not get through, so here I go again.....

On Monday 22 January 2001 23:19, you wrote:
> > My question is if any of you guys have plans to evolve mrbs into a more
> > generic recource booking / managing system? A news post on the mrbs site
> > on sourceforge (Development branch sam_mason 2000-Sep-06) and a mail
> > (09/05/2000 also by Sam Mason) indicates a main branch called Resource
> > Booking System. This sounds just like the thing I need, but I have not
> > been able to find anything about it apart from the news post? Has the
> > development of the RBS stopped?
>
> I'm not sure about which way this should go... i guess it would
> be kinda cool to use mrbs for stuff other than just meeting
> rooms, and indeed i know that it is being used for more.
> areoplanes and resturant tables being two that i can think of off
> the top of my head.
One way this could happen is to identify functionality that would be needed 
if, for instance, the system was to manage car rental, human resources etc. 
The functionality that fits within concept of 'meeting room booking' could be 
implemented without further notice The rest could be postponed but 
documented. This could be driven by the people that already have adopted the 
mrbs to handle other tasks and experienced limitations in the current system.

I parallel with this, I think it would be a good idea if there was put some 
effort into examining where and what should be changed, to make the existing 
system more general. What I think about here is stuff like is the current
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L J Bayuk | 2 Feb 2001 02:05
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Re: error message when deleting the room

"Sim, CT (Chee Tong)" wrote:
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> Dear all,
> 
> I had encountered error when I tried to delete the room entry as shown below
> but the room still can be deleted.  Can any one teach me??
> 
> Warning: Missing argument 1 for print_header() in
> /home/httpd/html/mrbs/functions.inc on line 5
> ...

They fixed this in the current release, 0.9-pre2. In 0.9-pre1 the arguments
to print_header() are missing in del.php3. You should upgrade, if possible.
If you can't upgrade, change the 2 calls to "print_header()" in del.php3 to
"print_header(0,0,0,0)".
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L J Bayuk | 2 Feb 2001 01:47
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Re: 24 views, correction

Still not having learned to try it first, I wrote:
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> OK, I'm not sure what is missing. I've tested my version with 24 hour view
> ($morningstarts=0; $eveningends=23) and it does work. Unless you set
> $resolution to 3600 (1 hour per slot) you will be doing a lot of scrolling,
> and better have fast browser clients 'cause those tables will take a long
> time to render. I think the released version will work as well in this
> setup (although it has a bug in always rounding events to 30 minutes rather
> than $resolution). I can see a week view would be very helpful to you; see
> my other messages on that. There is a good chance weekly view will be in
> the next major release.

In fact, 24 hour view in 0.9pre2 only works with full 1-hour slots. This is
because $eveningends is an integer number of hours <= 23, and the display for
each day stops at the slot starting at $eveningends hours.  For example,
if you have resolution=1800, it will not display the 23:30-00:00 slot.

It was also broken in my version, but I just fixed it by adding a minutes
variable for the end of the day.  (This will also let you end the day with
a 16:30-17:00 slot, for example.) My experimental weekly view was rather
broken in this way too, but I think it is all fixed now.
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L J Bayuk | 2 Feb 2001 01:57
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Re: Weekly view

Marc ter Horst wrote:
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> > Weekly view...
> Could you send me a copy of those so I can play around with them 
> some ?
They won't work on their own because they use the database calls I wrote to
talk to either PostgreSQL or MySQL, and also rely on other stuff I changed.
I'll make a deal, though: If sourceforge doesn't fix my account so I can
upload my changes soon, I will put my own branch release up on my mindspring
ftp site or something, so at least people can look at it if they want.

The latest word from Sourceforge is that they are all at the LinuxWorld
conference so don't expect service until Feb 5.  I figure to give them no
more than 1 week after that.
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Sim, CT (Chee Tong | 2 Feb 2001 07:00

RE: any one use NT authenticatation for MRBS?

Hi.. Leonard,

Thanks for your info, I am using Linux apache to install MRBS, whether your
method can still be used?? Anyway I still your method to rename auth_ip.inc
to auth_nt.inc and changed the content as yours, but when I clicked to book
the room, it doesn't prompt me for username and password and I could not go
to admin page, anything else that need to be done in my case

Sim 

part of the config.inc
# Authentication settings - read AUTHENTICATION
$auth[realm]  = "";
$auth[type]   = "nt";
$auth[prog]   = "";
$auth[params] = "";

# The various level two users (can modify other peoples settings)
$auth[admin][] = "simc";

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From: Leonard, Scott [mailto:LeonardS <at> iahs.nsw.gov.au]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 6:05 AM
To: 'Sim, CT (Chee Tong)'; 'Daniel'; mrbs-general <at> lists.sourceforge.net;
'smason <at> mtc.ricardo.com'
Subject: RE: [Mrbs-general] any one use NT authenticatation for MRBS?

Sim Chee Tong,

I use MRBS on an Intranet and as such have a much more controlled and secure
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