Student Lifecycle › Rooms & Timetabling
Rooms
Every room that can be timetabled or examined in: seats, exam seats, type, equipment, step-free access and opening hours. A room is booked by the timetable, never typed.
Where to find it
- Module: Student Lifecycle
- Group: Rooms & Exams
- Section: Rooms & Timetabling
- Screen: Rooms
Address in the console: /slcm/rooms
List · 10 columns · 17 fields on its form · 3 of them required
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Room | Code | code |
| Name | Text | name |
| Building | Code | building_code |
| Type | Status | room_type |
| Seats | Number | capacity |
| Exam seats | Number | exam_capacity |
| Equipment | Text | feature_list |
| Step-free | Yes or no | is_accessible |
| Hours a week | Number | weekly_hours |
| Active | Yes or no | is_active |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code required | Text | ||
| Name | Text | ||
| Building | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Campus | Choice | Looked up from existing records | Leave blank to take the building’s campus. |
| Floor | Text | ||
| Room type required | Choice | lecture, lab, seminar, tutorial, exam_hall, studio, computer_lab, other | |
| Seats required | Number | ||
| Exam seats | Number | Seats at exam spacing. Blank: not used for exams. | |
| Equipment | Text | Configuration list | |
| Step-free access | Yes or no | ||
| Accessibility notes | Text | ||
| Open on | Text | Configuration list | Blank: every day. |
| Opens | Time | ||
| Closes | Time | ||
| Takes bookings | Yes or no | ||
| Active | Yes or no | ||
| Notes | Long text |
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.