Booking Priorities Booking Priorities
Use
The booking priority indicates the status of a booking. There are three different booking priorities:
Priority intervals are two-digit values. You set the priority intervals in Customizing for Training and Event Management under Day-to-Day Activities ® Booking ® Booking Priorities via the switches SEMIN MAXMU and SEMIN MINWL. You also set the default priority displayed on the initial booking screen in this step via the switch SEMIN NPRIO.
Description of booking priorities
A waiting-list booking is not, strictly speaking, a real booking. An attendee who wants to attend a business event that is fully booked can be put on the waiting list.
If places become available on the business event as a result of cancellations or rebookings, waiting-list candidates can be moved up. You define the move-up procedure in Customizing.
You make the required settings for the move-up procedure in Customizing for Training and Event Management under Day-to-Day Activities ® Canceling ® Control data in the SEMIN TOPMD entry.
A normal booking, on the other hand, is a real booking. A normal booking means that attendance at a business event is assured unless the attendee has to be moved down to the waiting list when the business event is firmly booked.
An internal employee has a place on the business event while a customer has only a waiting-list booking. In a situation like this, the employee could be moved down to the waiting list and the customer moved up to the attendee list when the status of the event is changed to firmly booked.
Bookings with normal priority may only be made until the optimum capacity defined for the business event is reached.
A booking that is assigned essential priority is a booking with attendance assured. Unlike a booking with normal priority, an attendee with an essential booking cannot be put back on the waiting list when the business event is firmly booked.
Once the optimum number of attendees has been reached, only bookings with essential booking priority are accepted until maximum capacity is reached. Once maximum capacity has been reached, only waiting list bookings are possible.