Introduction to Rooms
Rooms is an Appspace extension that allows users to build meeting room themes for Android tablet devices. The Rooms extension collaborates with a calendar provider (Microsoft Exchange by default) for details of meeting rooms, their location, and schedules. With this extension, users have the ability to monitor their tablet devices, manage their themes, and configure their calendar providers within Appspace.
A Rooms theme, created in the Rooms extension, is downloaded, installed, and configured on an Android device. It displays meeting room schedules by location, while simultaneously providing instant booking capabilities.
Calendar Provider
The Calendar Provider is a repository that contains the details of every meeting room. The actual structure of these details depends on the calendar provider type. The currently supported providers are Microsoft Exchange and EmergingSoft MeetingPlanner.
A single Calendar Provider is configured to handle seamless data synchronization between the Rooms extension, the Rooms theme, and the calendar provider service, to enable efficient meeting room bookings.
Themes
A Rooms theme is a package containing a collection of front-end interfaces created using standard HTML and CSS, and logic contained in regular JavaScript files. Themes can be imported, exported, and customized with standard web development tools to suit the needs and requirements of the organization. The default theme for the Android client also supports both landscape and portrait orientations automatically.
Devices
The Rooms Android app is downloaded and installed on an Android device via Google Play Store. The Calendar Provider must be configured prior to registering a device with Appspace. Users can make instant room bookings on the device via the 2-way booking feature implemented in the theme.
Requirements
Appspace Requirements
The Rooms extension requires Appspace version 5.1.0 or later.
Device Requirements
The Rooms Android app is supported on Android 4.x devices or later.
Calendar Provider Requirements
The calendar provider requires permissions to mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 or 2013.