Direct Bookings and Indirect Bookings

You can often divide large spaces in a venue into smaller spaces using floating walls. When you book one of the smaller spaces, you need to block the larger space to indicate that the larger space is not available and vice-versa when you book the larger space you need to block the smaller spaces. Momentus Enterprise uses direct and indirect bookings to manage this situation. 

When you book a space for an event, the space selected is considered a direct booking, and each of the components of the space are blocked and considered as indirect bookings. 

For example, your venue has a large space (Hall AB) with a floating wall between two smaller spaces (Hall A and Hall B). An event books Hall AB. Hall AB is the direct booking and Hall A and Hall B are the indirect booking to indicate they are not available. The same process happens if Hall A is booked; then Hall AB is indirectly booked to indicate the larger space is no longer available, while leaving Hall B available.

There are various filtering options on the Booking Calendar and the Booking Master to view or hide direct and indirect bookings.

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  • Tony Costantino (DeBartolo Performing Arts Center)

    How can I search in a Crystal or EZWriter report for indirectly booked spaces?

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  • Tony Costantino (DeBartolo Performing Arts Center)

    How can I include indirectly booked spaces in a Crystal report? What are the tables?

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  • Ken Treadway

    Tony:

    There is not a single field that indicates whether or not a space is directly booked, however, there is a way to get at this information.  If you join on the EV801 and EV803 tables on EV801_SPACE_CODE and EV803_SPACE_CODE, if the EV801_REL_SPACE = EV803_SPACE_CODE, then the booking is direct.  Otherwise it is indirect.  The EV801_SPACE_CODE will have multiple entries in the EV801 table if it is a composite space.

    This is the logic used to build the Booking Master (v19) and the Daily Bookings (v20) windows. 

    Ken Treadway

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  • Mudit Dhebar - Business Systems
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    Hi, when we booked a composite space, wouldn't that be a direct booking?

     

    Thanks,
    Mudit

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  • Mudit Dhebar - Business Systems

    Adding to my above query, how does system determine whether it is a direct or indirect booking?

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  • Sean Tame

    Hi Mudit,

    Possibly best to describe by example.

    Take Ballroom A, Ballroom B and Grand Ballroom (created by BRA & BRB together).

    1) Book Ballroom A
    Ballroom A = Direct, Grand Ballroom = Indirect

    2) Book Ballroom B
    Ballroom B = Direct, Grand Ballroom = Indirect

    3) Book Grand Ballroom
    Ballroom A = Indirect, Ballroom B = Indirect, Grand Ballroom = Direct.

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  • Mudit Dhebar - Business Systems

    Thanks Sean, does that mean when we book a composite space, it becomes direct by default?

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  • Sean Tame

    Booking a composite space would result in a direct booking of that space and an indirect booking of any subordinate spaces.

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  • Mudit Dhebar - Business Systems

    Thanks, Sean.

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