====== Booking ======

Evergreen 1.6.1.0 will contain a new set of features for booking both cataloged and non-cataloged items.  This page provides the documentation resources that are presently available for booking, but it should grow in the future to include more.


NOTE: The documentation for booking is also available in the Evergreen documentation at [[http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/1.6/draft/html/]]. In github: [[http://github.com/rsoulliere/Evergreen-DocBook/blob/master/1.6/]].

===== Documentation =====

The following documentation by Sally Fortin of Equinox Software will explain how Booking works.  {{:evergreen-docs:administrative_functions_in_the_booking_module.pdf|Administrative Functions in the Booking Module}} is aimed at Administrators and Catalogers, while {{:evergreen-docs:booking_module_documentation.pdf|Booking Module User Documentation}} will probably be most useful to circulation staff.

Both documents will be included in DocBook Evergreen documentation (under development, see [[evergreen-docs:dig]] for details)

===== For system administrators =====

Booking uses one new org_unit setting, called circ.booking_reservation.default_elbow_room.  Elbow room specifies how far in the future you must make a reservation on an item if that item will have to transit to reach its pickup location.  It secondarily defines how soon a reservation on a given item must start before the check-in process will opportunistically capture it for the reservation shelf.

This setting has a default value of 1 day.