Person who moderates a business event for which a room has been reserved (such as the person who calls a meeting).

A reservation record is created for the moderator of a room reservation just as for any other resource since it is assumed that the moderator is present during the business event (room reservation). This prevents reservation conflicts occurring by the moderator being reserved or booked for another event at the same time.

Specification of a moderator can be useful in the following ways:

• It lets you specify who called a meeting (or similar event) and who is responsible for it.
• For objects of type P (Person), it lets you prevent the employee being booked for another, conflicting appointment.

In addition, the moderator is included in the capacity check for rooms. The moderator is considered an attendee for this purpose.

Moderators can be assigned to any object type that can represent individual persons (such as the object types Person, External Person, Contact Person, User, Applicant).

You specify what object types you want to allow as moderators in Customizing for Room Reservation Management under Basic Settings for Room Reservation Management ® Dialog Control ® Technical Settings ® Attendee Type/Moderator Control ® Allowed Attendee Types/Moderators.

Room Reservation Management must be integrated with the relevant components if you want to use certain object types as moderator. For example, if you want to use the object type Contact Person, you require integration with the Sales and Distribution component (SD).

The moderator you specify must already exist as an object in the system. In other words, object data should have been created in the relevant component: