1. NAME AND TITLE

CRRS: Conference Room Reservation System.

2. CONTRIBUTOR

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.

3. CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

PERL; DEC Alpha (P00376/DALPU/00).

4. NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

CRSS is a set of CGI scripts written in Perl with a top level HTML page for this World-Wide Web-based software, which is used at ORNL to reserve conference rooms. In addition, customized versions have been constructed to reserve government vehicles and laboratory instruments. CRRS provides a calendar-based scheduler for conference rooms through the WWW and allows Laboratory employees to schedule conference rooms without calling the person who keeps a paper log. These individuals (called RoomMasters) now have authority to override a particular schedule if need be. They can also do multiple day scheduling using the CRRS.

5. METHOD OF SOLUTION

A top level HTML page is the access into the system. Then a series of perl scripts are used to allow the user to reserve a conference room, browse the list of room reservations, or cancel a reservation. Tools are also provided to allow RoomMasters to add conference rooms to the system and to control email notices. The room search capability has been included, but this feature has not been extensively developed.

6. RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

Must be installed on a WWW server.

7. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

The application is an interactive, web application. Not Applicable.

8. COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

The system runs on the internal WWW server at ORNL. This machine is a DEC ALPHA with the Digital Unix 4.0 operating system running the Apache Stronghold Web server.

9. COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

The entire application is now in Perl. For the application to work, Perl Version 5 or later must be installed on the WWW server in the directory: /usr/bin. This location can be modified in the Perl scripts if need be. There are no other software requirements.

10. REFERENCES

R. C. Ward, CRRS Abstract (October 1998).

R. C. Ward, CRRS Installation Notes (October 1998).

R. C. Ward, CRRS Informal User Guide (October 1998).

11. CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

Included are the referenced documents and a DOS formatted 3.5-in. (1.44MB) diskette which contains a Unix tar file and the documentation files. An ORNL report is being readied and will be included with the package when complete.

12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

February 1999.

KEYWORDS: INTERACTIVE, ON-LINE; WORKSTATION