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QuadroCS Manual III: Moderator's Guide Moderator's Menus
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Reservation
The Reservation service allows you to reserve the conference resources having a limitation of 30 participants connected to the QuadroCS at the
same time. This service is used to guarantee the number of participants in a certain conference, otherwise not all important participants might be
able to connect the conference if there are other conferences running.
When a certain number of participants are reserved for the fixed time frame, any other conferences will not start or additional participants will not be
able to connect the conferences if there are no enough resources on the QuadroCS. Following rules are applicable to the reservation mechanism:
• Reserved conferences have a higher priority versus to the non-reserved conferences. In case if no enough resources are available on the
QuardoCS, only non-reserved conference will be terminated.
• If a Conference1 is running on the QuadroCS with more participant (e.g. 7) than the upcoming reservation of the same conference allows
(e.g. 5), the previously started Conference1 will be automatically terminated when a reservation time comes. Further, а new conference
may start with participants no more than allowed by the reservation (e.g. 5).
• If a non-reserved Conference1 is running on the QuadroCS with the certain number of participants (e.g. 10) and a time comes for
reservation of the Conference2 with the number of participants (e.g. 5), the Conference1 will keep running if there are enough resources on
the QuadroCS.
• If a Conference1 running on the QuadroCS with the certain number of participants (e.g. 28, in particular case this number may be reached
by a number of multiple conferences active at the same time) and a time comes for the reservation of the Conference2 with the number of
participants (e.g. 5), the Conference1 will be automatically terminated because the total resources (e.g. 28+5) will exceed the limitation of
30 participants (or in case if a number of multiple conferences are active, only not reserved conferences will be terminated while the
reserved ones will keep running).
• If there is already a conference running with fewer participants than it is allowed by the reservation entry, the previously started conference
will keep running even after the reservation time comes and additional participants will be able to connect the conference, as far as the
number of participants configured by the reservation is not reached.
The Reservation page is used to reserve the conference
resources for the single time period. From this page a
chart with conference resources usage can be generated.
Please Note: The table on this page is displayed in a
read-only mode for the users authenticated as participants.
The table on this page lists all reservations configured for
the corresponding conference. When the reservation
period passes, the reservation automatically disappears
from the Reservations table.
Fig. II-23: Schedule Page
Clicking the Add button takes you to the Add Reservation
page where a new reservation can be made for a
conference. This page offers the following components:
The Start Date drop-down lists are used to select the
month, the day and the year when the conference
reservation should start.
The Start Time drop-down lists are used to select the time
when the conference reservation should start.
The Duration text field requires the duration (in minutes)
of the reserved conference.
The Participant Count drop-down list is used to select the
maximum number of participants in the reserved
conference.
Fig. II-24: Reservation – Add Entry page
The Reservations Chart link takes you to the page where
chart characteristics (the start date, the start time and the
duration) should be defined. Once the characteristics are
defined, press Show to display the reservation chart.
Fig. II-25: Reservations Chart configuration page