Booking screen overview

Booking main screen consists of menu line in CHUI or line of icons in GUI interface, booking status line and three subwindows (browsing lists). There is also a system status (help) line at the bottom of the screen .

Figure 3.1: Main booking screen

Access to CHUI menu is providing by ``F3'' key. GUI menu function is replaced by a line of icons at the top of booking window. Each action related to menu or icon in both of variants is doubled by keyboard shortcut consisting of ``Ctrl'' and Latin letter. For example if you want to save booking you may press ``Ctrl-B'', for ticketing - ``Ctrl-T'', etc..

Right above the menu (or icon line) there is an information (booking status) line which displays following information:

• [Booking Nr.]- system number of current booking on the screen. It is equal to zero for new booking.
• [Status]- booking status - the following values are possible:
  • ``B'' - booking
  • ``T'' - ticket
  • ``CB'' - cancelled booking
  • ``CT'' - cancelled ticket
  • ``IB'' - Internet booking (booking, made in Internet booking interface, and to be confirmed by privileged agent)
  • ``WL'' - Waiting list
• [Booking agent]- booking owner agency id
• [Signature]- current user (agent) and current agency ids, separated by ''@''
• [Group]- passenger group name for group bookings
• [Leader]- group officials name for group bookings (last two fields are in the middle of the window in GUI variant)

All remaining space of the Booking screen is occupied by three browsers (we'll call them just 'windows') in whose all information about the booking is viewed, entered and stored. Information about one or two possible voyages is stored to the ``Departures'' window. Available places by categories and cabin are showing in the ``Places'' window. The required amount of places for each voyage is entering also here. When any amount of places is entered - corresponding amount of lines in the ``Passengers & Cars'' window is creating, each line for one new passenger. Later you can enter all necessary passenger and car data for each line in ``Passengers & Cars'' window. You may use ``TAB'' key (or mouse in GUI) for clockwise navigation between these three information windows. During creation of the booking additional dialogs may appear (for passenger and car entries, for searching), but all process of booking creation and editing is spinning around these three windows.

Creation and further editing of booking are always processed in the editor mode - each change of booking must be saved or discarded. In order to save booking you must press ``Ctrl-B'' for booking or ``Ctrl-T'' for ticket. If you will try to close unsaved booking main window - you will get a warning message. Press ``No'' otherwise.