"Mobile" in all Rooms-- What's this?

[CutNGlass]

Original thread name was:
"Mobile" in all Rooms?? What's this -- How to Remove?
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New Note (added by CutNGlass): Suggest readers skip down to Marco's answer further down this thread.

I have since found that good understanding of this is important when using Hosted Hotel Druid, along with Channel Manager for Expedia.com or Booking.com, as you must only group together rooms which are interchangeable with each other.

Picture a list of 1 or more rooms associated with a particular rate-type -- not just the same price and bedding, but also whether smoking/non-smoking, lakeview/poolview, pet-friendly/no-pets! The mobile part is referring to hotel druid being able to automatically move room assignments, for optimization so that you can maximize the number of rooms rented.

Great feature!
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In the Modify or delete reservation screen, there is a item "mobile" which shows up:

First(As a checkbox ):
Mobile in all the rooms.

Second (Between the Room Name and the Rate Name):
Example:
Room (a) CarriageHouse-102 (mobile in (a) CarriageHouse-102)
It should be this:
Room (a) CarriageHouse-102 ((a) CarriageHouse-102)

We found it less confusing (in our unique situation) to label the Room Rates Identical to the Room Names.


We are also having something else, which we want to suppress from showing on the same screen:
New single extra cost " " of Dollars, to multiply by: ( bed).

It shows up on the "Modify or Delete Reservation" screen; however, we do not see it in the "Extra Costs" Table editing page.

Do you know what the "mobile" is referring to, and how to "hide" it?

Thanks,

Mary Schneider

[bluealmondhostel]

Hi, from what i have gathered the "mobile" thing is just another way to change people's room.
Not very useful IMO, since in the calendar view you can do drag and drop.

to hide the mobile thing row add this to your base.css
This will only work on modern browsers and i'm pretty sure it wont work on IE at all.


BEFORE

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table.modres { border-collapse : collapse; max-width: 770px; margin: 0 2px 0 0; }
table.modres td { padding: 5px; }
table.modres td td { padding: 0; }
div.modres { max-width: 770px;  margin: 0 2px 0 0; padding: 2px 0 2px 4px; }

AFTER

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table.modres { border-collapse : collapse; max-width: 770px; margin: 0 2px 0 0; }
table.modres tr:nth-child(7) {display: none;}
table.modres td { padding: 5px; }
table.modres td td { padding: 0; }
div.modres { max-width: 770px;  margin: 0 2px 0 0; padding: 2px 0 2px 4px; }

Please let me know if this works for you.

[CutNGlass]

Thank you for answering.

It took me a while to figure out a way to use what you told me...

I'm not sure where to add what you gave me from within hosted site.

Since our client is the only one who should ever be using this, we have used the "Stylish" FireFox Add-On for customizing look/feel which we were unable to figure out how to do otherwise.

Along with settings which I changed the background color of tables -- so that users have better contrast with table content (blue on beige easier to see than blue on blue) (green on beige easier to see than green on blue)

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@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document url-prefix(https://www.digitaldruid.net),
               url-prefix(http://www.digitaldruid.net) {
 
body {
  background: #6f8f8c
   url("")
 fixed!important; 
background-size: cover !important;}

#menubox {
  border-top-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
  border-top-style: none;
  border-top-width: 50px;
  float: none;
  margin-left: 75px;
  margin-right: 75px;
}
 
table.m1 {
background-color: #DADACE !important;
}

table.t1 {
background-color: #DADACE !important;
}

table.t1 tr:first-child td, table.me1 tr:first-child td {
  background-attachment: scroll;
  background-clip: border-box;
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
  background-image: url("");
  background-origin: padding-box;
  background-position: left top;
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  background-size: auto auto;
}

table.t1 tr{
  background-color: #DADACE;
}

.invoice_frame {
   background-color: #ffffff;
}

table.modres tr:nth-child(7) {
   display: none;
}
table.modres td { 
   padding: 5px; 
}
table.modres td td { 
   padding: 0; 
}
div.modres { 
   max-width: 770px;  
   margin: 0 2px 0 0; 
   padding: 2px 0 2px 4px; 
}

}

Great! Took me a little while to figure out that the "7th child" of table.modres is the mobile field. Always more to learn about CSS, as I've barely scratched the surface of its potential. Very cool.

Thank you so much!
(mary)

[marco]

The automatic assignment is explained here:

http://www.hoteldruid.com/en/automatic_assignment.html

this is the main feature that distinguishes hoteldruid from other PMS and I think it's very useful even with drag and drop (will move other reservations correctly if you drop in an occupied room).

Regards,
Marco

[CutNGlass]

I didn't actually understand what this was before...
Basically will allow optimization of room rentals.

It is a great feature; however we have a client who wants to micro-manage room management.

Some of it makes sense:
Knowing which rooms share water-heaters
They have a lot of returning guests who want specific rooms, or specific buildings - so they do not want them moved.
Winter weather trying to put guests into the most energy-efficient rooms.
Wanting to avoid having people with dogs next to each other, to avoid problems.

Some does not. Literally over-riding the optimization and by switching any-and-all optimized on-line bookings to "fixed-room"

While editing a particular room reservation that has "mobile", you can "Change the method for the room assignment" from mobile to fixed... select that particular room from a list of Fixed room No's:


Then that reservation will not longer be "mobile", but "fixed" to a particular room:


Finally getting around to some "how-to" training material, so am sharing some relevant screen captures on my previous posts.

[marco]

Hello,
mobile in only one room and fixed will be treated the same way.

Regards,
Marco