1.3.1. RANGES AND PERIODS Basic Table

Each Contract or Price List cannot exist without a period of validity linked to it: such periods, in SCRIGNO are called RANGES, and the relating dates are specified in a basic table that the booking user can modify or implement, when necessary.

1. Range groups
   Name and Code of the valid Calendars in use.

2. Ranges
   It is a list of all the seasons included in the currently selected calendar.
   In the example shown in the picture above, the official calendar is divided into 4 seasons: high, low, medium, long weekends and public holidays.

3. Periods
   It is a list of all the periods relating to the currently selected season (from the night of … to the night of …). In the example, the official calendar considers the nights of October 2014 and March 2015 as high season.

4. Range Group or Annual Seasonality
   

   CHARACTERISTICS

   CONTRACTS USING THIS RANGE

   Each calendar period covers a working year. The program makes sure that each period does not intersect other periods already existing in the calendar, while it does not signal if the periods inserted are contiguous. In fact, there might be cases in which the working year of the hotel does not coincide with the calendar year (for instance, maritime facilities close in mid-November and reopen in mid-March of the following year).

   All those contracts in which rates vary every year (E.g. Corporate)

5. Range Group or Single Seasonality
   

   CHARACTERISTICS	CONTRACTS USING THIS RANGE
   There is only one period of the calendar, which covers an indefinite time span. The starting date of the period can never refer to a period prior to the work date.	All those contract in which rates do not change over time (E.g. Complimentary price list, always free)

6. Range Group or Daily Seasonality
   

   CHARACTERISTICS	CONTRACTS USING THIS RANGE
   Each period of the calendar covers a calendar year.	All those contract in which rates vary every day (E.g. On Line channels price list)

7. INSERTING CALENDAR DATES (INSERTING A RANGE)

• Place the cursor on any point of the Range groups table, then click the button to obtain a new modifiable line.

• Code field: enter an identification code to be associated to the new calendar (range group). The code cannot consist of more than 5 characters, alphanumeric.

• Description field: briefly describe the new calendar (range group).

• Click the button to save the entered data.

• Place the cursor on the Ranges field, and list the seasons included in the calendar. Each season (range) must have a Code, 5 alphanumeric characters, and a Description.

• Always click the button to save the entered data.

• For each Range/Season inserted specify, in the table on the right (Periods), the starting and end dates (From the night of … to the night of …).

• Then, click the button to complete the procedure.

8. MODIFYING CALENDAR DATES (MODIFYING A RANGE)
   If you wish to correct or insert the dates of validity associated with a pre-existing calendar, proceed as follows:

• In the Ranges Group table, select the calendar to be improved.

• In the associated Ranges table, select the calendar period to be modified.

• In the Periods table, correct or implement the dates displayed.
• Click the button to save.

We remind that the modification of calendar dates appears on all the contracts linked to it.

9. DELETING CALENDAR DATES (DELETING A RANGE)
   To delete a calendar, it is necessary that it has never been used before nor attached to any contract.

• Search for the calendar to be deleted in the Ranges Group table and select it.

• For each Range line of the calendar, delete from the Period table the relating dates, by clicking the button.

• Click the button to save the partial deletion carried out.

• Now delete all the Range lines existing for the calendar, by clicking the button for each one.

• Click the button to save the partial deletion carried out.

• To conclude, delete the Ranges Group code, always by clicking the button.

• Click the button to confirm.