Server settings

Before using the ResSched Web, you must establish several settings for how you want it to operate. ResSched Web uses the same resource and system administration settings you have established with the ResSched Corporate Edition, but there are additional settings unique to ResSched Web. You enter these additional settings by running the WebSet.exe program installed into your ResSched data folder.

Service Manager

Lets you install and manage ResSched Web as a Windows service.

Settings

Lets you change many options for controlling access to ResSched Web, displaying information, and notifying administrators and users

Error Log

Logs unexpected responses. For technical support purposes only

The General tab settings control how ResSched works on your server and how it displays information generally.

Which port on your server should ResSched Web use to receive requests from your users. Web applications normally use port 80 but only one web application can use that port at a time. If another web application on your server is already using port 80, use port 88. If both these ports are occupied, you can use a different port but you should confirm that the port is not used by another function and that the port is secure.

For providing access over the Internet, you must go one step further and create a route, so that users from outside can access this port on this machine. This will mean going to the settings for router/modem and explicitly open port 80 to the outside, so that users connecting to your modem (from the outside on port 80) get redirected to the internal machine. This process does vary from router to router, but is usually fairly intuitive.

You have the option of recording the POST and GET transactions and either displaying them on screen when Resched Web main window showing, or saving them to disk. ResSched Web transaction logs are rarely useful to administrators or end users are provide only for diagnostic purposes. If you are using ResSched Web as a service under VISTA, you cannot view the ResSched Web main window so you must select the Screen and Disk option to view the transactions. Log files are stored in the /log folder shown under folder that has the ResWeb.exe. If you are saving log files to disk, you should delete them regularly.

If you wish to use Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) to encrypted your communication and authenticate your site, turn on Use SSL. SSL communication usually uses a different port, so you should specify a different port to use for SSL port (the default port for SSL is 443). You must enter filename for your SSL certifcate and key files without the .crt and .key extensions. See Using SSL for more details.

Several ResSched Web functions use e-mail to pass information to individuals. You must enter the name and port of the mail SMTP mail server you wish to use for outgoing messages from ResSched web, and a return address for the outgoing messages.

Enter the date and time formats you wish ResSched web to use when displaying or entering schedule information

If client is not mandatory in the System Settings of ResSched Corporate Edition, you have the option of excluding the client in the ResSched web schedules and entry pages.

Category is an optional entry for ResSched, so you can choose to exclude it from the ResSched Web displays

This option allows new public or semi-public users to create their user ID. These user ID's have reserve user rights and must use their e-mail address as their user ID. This feature is only available to organizations that have licensed the Extended version of ResSched Web.

To provide view only access to the public or other non ResSched users, use an external link.

If you have allowed users to create their own accounts, you can designate a resource or system administrator to receive notification whenever a reserve booking is made. You must enter the e-mail address of the administrator who is to receive the notifications

Even for public or semi-public users, you will want to limit who can be a ResSched user. Domain restrictions let you filter potential users by the domain name of their e-mail address. You can choose whether you want to limit users to a list of approved domains (white list) or exclude those users with specified domains such as web mail accounts like hotmail.com, yahoo.com, or gmail.com (black list). In either case, you must enter the name of a txt file with the list of approve or excluded domains one entry per line.

If you are using a white list, but wish to exclude some users who have an approved domain, enter the name of txt file that has the list excluded e-mail addresses.

You can make a view only user ID part of the ResSched Web URL for inclusion on other pages or sites. Click on the link will open ResSched with that user ID and its access rights. However, that user ID must be listed in this txt file one entry per line.

You have the option of limiting the display for reserve, general and view only users to a set number of days in the future. There is no limit if this entry is set to 0.

When this option is checked, reserve and general users cannot create, change, or delete any booking that occurred in the past. Resource and system administrators retain authority to change past bookings.

Hides the booking name, client and notes from all users except administrators and the user that created the booking.