Extended Search
Use
The extended search offers you the option to execute more detailed queries for available car rental offers by entering more specific selection criteria. It lets you restrict the selection results to vehicles that suit your specific requirements before running the availability query.
Prerequisites
You have activated the Extended search for displaying car rental offers. You do this in Customizing for R/3 Travel Planning under Dialog and Planning Control ® Travel Planning Control ® Define Price and Availability Strategies.
The extended search is available to you if you have created a travel plan and started a car rental request.
Features
If you use the global reservation system Amadeus you can carry out the search according to one of the following selection criteria or a combination of several criteria: If your company is connected with the reservation system Sabre, you must specify the car rental provider.
The Branch office option, allows you to choose a specific car rental office as the pickup and/or drop-off location for the vehicle. The default value in the standard system is the branch office at the relevant airport terminal.
If you specifically enter a certain car rental provider in the extended search, this overwrites any possible provider list with most economical vehicle that may have been activated in Customizing. In this case the query does not return a list of the most economical vehicles provided by all car rental providers, but rather a list of all available vehicles for the specified provider according to your search criteria.
Activities
The Extended search screen appears.
Query, with Quickinfo Car rental availability query (F8), to display the available car rental providers or car rentals. You see the Car Rental Availability: Provider List (if you only specified vehicle data) or Car Rental Availability: Vehicle List (if you chose a specific provider).
, with Quickinfo Choose, to see the Car Rental Availability: Vehicle List., to choose the vehicle. The vehicle request is added to your travel plan.
You can skip the editing step Query and choose a rental car directly from the Extended Search dialog box, by specifying the provider code and all vehicle data and choosing Reserve. The system chooses an appropriate vehicle and enters this in your travel plan with the status Requested.