General Overview
Note: When the OPR<version Number>ORS license code is active, three radio buttons appear on the Application Settings screen that affect what Group Functions, Parameters, and Settings will be available.
- The Global radio button displays Group Functions/Parameters/Settings that will affect all properties located in all CROs in the ORS database.
- The CRO radio button displays Group Functions/Parameters/Settings that will affect all properties located in the CRO selected from the CRO LOV.
- The Property radio button displays Group Functions/Parameters/Settings that are available on the property level and will only affect the property selected in the Property LOV.
Functions
- ALTERNATE NAME - Provides the ability to record an alternate (native) name, title, and salutation for each profile using the national character set. Users are able to search for profiles using either the English or native name values. The alternate (native) name will also be displayed within search grids and can be shown on customizable items via merge codes within the address format configuration.
- CHECK TRUSTEE PERMISSION - Control the activation of trustee permissions and who/what owners can access in blocks/profiles. It is strongly recommended that prior to activation of this feature the implications are fully understood.
- COMPONENT ROOMS - Activate the Component Rooms functionality.
- CRO PROPERTY LINK - Activate CRO property link functionality. Using this functionality properties can be linked to CRO(s) and users will not be able to access properties from the application which are not belongs to login CRO.
- DATA EXTRACTION - Activate Data Extraction Functionality.
- DOWNLOAD RESTRICTIONS - Activate Download Restrictions Functionality.
- EXTENSIONS - Allow the selection of an Extension Number when Checking a Guest into a Room with a Single Entry Door, but have Multiple Phone Extensions.
- FILTER SEARCH - Activate Filter option for Search.
- FILE ATTACHMENT - Activate the Attachment Functionality.
- LOGBOOK - Activate The LogBook Functionality.
- MENU URL LINKS - Define Menu URL Links.
- OWNER - Owner Functionality active?
- POTENTIAL - Potential Functionality active.
- PROFILE LANGUAGE - When printing Customizable Reports, reference the Profile Language.
- REPORT GROUP ACCESS BY USER GROUP - Allows for Report Group Access defined by User Group.
- REPORT SCHEDULER - Activate Report Scheduler Functionality.
- ROOM CLASS - Activate Room Class Functionality.
- RUN EXTERNAL FORMS - Run Oracle forms from the Miscellaneous>Forms menu option.
- SERVICE REQUESTS - Provides the ability to define, track and report Service Requests on a Room, Reservation and Profile level.
- SOCIAL MEDIA INTEGRATION - Activate OPERA Social Media Integration.
- SSO TOKEN - SSO Token Validation.
- SURVEY - Enable Survey Functionality.
- TEXT MESSAGE HANDLING - Activate Text Message Handling Functionality.
- TRACK IT - Activate The Track It Functionality.
- USER GROUP ADMINISTRATION - This application function provides the user the ability to attach another user to a user group without first being part of that user group. This is a Global function.
Parameters
- 1099 REPORTING - 1099 Reporting Functionality
- ACRES INTERFACE - Activate External Systems Login.
- APPLICATION CURTAIN - Automatically Show the Opera Curtain.
- APPLICATION INDICATOR - Application Indicator.
- AUTO ALTERNATE NAME TRANSLATE - When activated, all foreign language names and addresses are translated to the default English, dependent on the ALT NAME functionality.
- CANCEL ACTIVITY - Allows Opera users to send a Cancel Activities message to an external system.
- BUDGET MARKET - Define Budget by Market Segment and/or Transaction Code.
- COMBINE ROOMS AND CATERING GOALS - Combine Rooms and Catering Goals in the same period.
- DOWNLOAD BY RATECAT - Activate Download Restrictions Functionality by Rate Category.
- ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE CAPTURE - Controls availability of Electronic Signature Capture functionality.
- ENABLE DATAMART UPLOAD - The DATAMART group will be available in OXI for further configuration when this parameter is enabled.
- ENABLE MARKETING REGION AND CITY - Enable marketing region and city.
- ENHANCED OPTIONS MANAGEMENT - Activate enhanced options management.
- FLOOR PLAN - Activates the Floor Plan functionality.
- GENERIC CRO - Indication of Generic CRO Y/N in a special chain ownership mode (when ORS_CM is activated only).
- GRANT INDIVIDUAL PERMISSIONS - Allows permissions to be granted to Users and User Groups, or only to User Groups.
- IATA UPLOAD - Enable the ability to Configure the Import Rules for an IATA Data Load.
- INT. TAX INCLUDED - Include tax to the rate amount in the rate message.
- KEEP REP CONT MERGE FILES - Keep Rep_Cont_Merge files in c:\temp
- LOGIN LANGUAGE - Enable the ability for the user to login into Opera using various languages. Activating this parameter will place an additional field for the default language to be setup on the User Configuration screen.
- OBI CLIENT SETUP - This Parameter enables OPERA Business Intelligence Client Setup. It is used to enable export of property configuration and datamart data to Central BI System.
- OBI SIZING UTILITY - Activate all the functionality to allow the user to estimate Cube and datamart size.
- OPERA WEB LINKS - Activates Opera web links feature.
- ORMS TRIAL ACTIVATE - Activate ORMS for a Trial period of 90 days without license code.
- POLICE INTERFACE - Allows the user to activate the police interface which sends and validates the guest information with official government records to see if the person is a 'persona non grata'.
- POPULATE RESERVATION STATISTICS TABLES - Populates the child tables of the RESERVATION_STAT_DAILY table for interfaced properties in ORS.
- POTENTIAL PROPERTY DETAILS - Allows users to enter and filter Potential figures by a selected property on the Potential screen for property-specific calculations.
- POTENTIAL ACTUALS BY POTENTIAL DATE RANGE - Displays Potential Actuals for only the Potential Start and End Date Range within the selected year(s) on the Potential screen.
- RECENT USED RECORDS MENU - Switches the menu option on or off for recently used Accounts, Contacts, Profiles, Reservations, Events and Business Blocks.
- REPORT WATERMARK - Option to add a watermark to all reports created in PDF format. This can be configured on a global, report group or individual report level.
- RESTRICT CREDIT CARD MANUAL ENTRY - Activates restricting manual entry of credit card numbers from a non-encrypted device.
- RESTRICT GUEST PROFILE LINK UPDATE - When this Parameter is activated the RESERVATION Permission GUEST PROFILE LINK UPDATE will be available.
- SHOW LOCAL PRINTERS - Used in printer setup to indicate whether to show local printers for Printers list of Value.
- SIZE END OF DAY - Amount of Space Required for running NA in MB. NA will not continue if space provided in this parameter is not available in the DATABASE.
- SPLIT POTENTIALS - Allows potential calculations to be split into Group or Non-Group.
- SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT - Activate Subscription Management Functionality.
- TRANSLATE MULTICHAR - Activate Translate Multicharacters Functionality.
- USE EXTERNAL LOGIN - Activate External Systems Login
Settings
- 1099 FILE THRESHOLD - If number of 1099s are being generated is more than value set in this setting, a 1099 File will be generated instead of reports.
- 1099 MINIMUM AMOUNT - Minimum Amount to generate 1099.
- 1099 TRN CODES - Amount paid to Owner Account under these Transaction Codes will be considered for 1099 reporting.
- ALTERNATE NAME LANGUAGE - Property base language for Extended-Byte functionality.
- ATTACHMENT STORAGE - Attachment Storage Option. Select one of two available options; BLOB or BFILE.
- ATTACHMENT SCHEMA NAME - BLOB Attachment schema name.
- ATTACHMENT DIRECTORY NAME - Attachment directory name where attachments are stored.
- BASE LANGUAGE - Provides the ability to print customizable report items in the guests' local language. Within configuration, code descriptions can be translated into one or more national languages to provide dynamic translation during printing. If no translated value is configured, Opera will revert to the base code description during printing.
- BASE ADF URL - Allows for entry of the URL path for the Weblogic Server when an ADF application is active.
- BOOKING GRID EXPORT SNAPSHOT TYPE - Booking Snapshot to use in Booking Room Grid Export.
- COMPRESSION UTILITY - Zip Program Name.
- CRO EXTENDED BYTE LANGUAGE - CRO base language for Alternate Name Functionality.
- CURRENCY DIVISOR VALUE - Allow the Property to define a currency divisor, which will be used for the display of Rate Amounts in those areas of the application where space does not permit the full display of the configured Rate Amount. The Rate Amount will be displayed as for example: 1K if the divisor is defined as 1000 and the actual Rate Amount is 1000.
- CURTAIN COLOR - Background Color of the Curtain.
- CURTAIN STYLE - Curtain Style.
- CUSTOM CURTAIN IMAGE - Custom curtain image. For best result the image should be 1024/768 in resolution and it should be in gif format.
- DASHBOARD LAYOUT VIEW - Type of Dashboard Layout View that will be used for the property.
- DATA EXTRACTION FORMAT - Data extraction format.
- DATABASE TIME ZONE REGION - Time zone where the database server is physically located.
- DAYS TO MASK CREDIT CARD INFORMATION - The number of days after which the credit card information on profile and reservation will be masked and will not be available for view/edit to any of the users irrespective of the permissions they have. In case of profile, the date credit card was attached to profile and in case of reservation the date of checkout / departure will be start date to determine the number of days to mask.
- DECOMPRESSION UTILITY - Unzip program name to UNZIP the files.
- DEFAULT ELECTRONIC PAYMENT RECEIPT - Report Name for Electronic Signature Payment Receipt.
- DEFAULT ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION CARD - Report Name for Electronic Signature Registration Card.
- DEFAULT OWNER - Default owner initials for users without owner code, or for externally created records. (ASP Mode only.)
- DEFAULT REGISTRATION CARD - Default Registration Card to be used for all Arrivals.
- DEFAULT TIME TO UNLOCK ACCOUNT - Specify the default number of minutes a user must wait for his account to be unlocked after 6 invalid login attempts.
- DEFAULT WALLET PASSWORD - Default Oracle Wallet Password (encrypted)
- EMAIL ENCODING - Email body encoding.
- FINANCIAL DAILY STATISTICS DATE TYPE - Use of Transaction or Business date for populating FINANCIAL_STAT_DAILY table. After changing this parameter please Run Utility "Synchronize Financial Statistics" under Synchronize Utilities. This is a one time process which synchronizes FINANCIAL_STAT_DAILY based on the configured setting in Opera. If using OBI then you will also need to Run Utility "Synchronize OBI Data Mart Utility" if using a remote instance of OBI. After both steps have been completed you will also be required to REBUILD the OBI cubes.
- GAMING ID - Determines where the gaming id is stored.
- IMAGES LOCATION - Location of images, specified as file://file_system_folder or http://web_location. If omitted, then the images are stored at the default location (OPERARUNTIMES).
- LOGIN TO DISABLED PROPERTIES - Enables members of selected user groups to access properties that were disabled from property login.
- NUMBER OF GRACE LOGINS - Maximum Number of Logins Allowed per User once their Password has Expired.
- ORACLE LISTENER PORT - Set port for oracle listener.
- POLICE INTERFACE TIMER - Time interval in minutes between two automated police export/import.
- PRIOR DAYS TO SYNC IN DATAMART - This parameter indicates the number of days prior to the current business date that Opera will include in statistics
- PROPERTY LOGO - Image file that will be used as property's logo. The resolution of the logo will be 54X18 pixels. For best performance keep the file size small and use gif images.
- PROPERTY TAX ID - Tax Identification Number for the Property.
- PROXY CREDENTIALS - Proxy server's username and password.
- PROXY SERVER - Proxy server for http calls from within the database server.
- PROXY SERVER BYPASS - List addresses for which the proxy server is to be bypassed.
- PURGE BATCH PROC LOG DAYS - Number of days to keep the data in BATCH_PROC_LOG table before purging it.
- PURGE UNNECESSARY CREDIT CARDS - The number of days in which credit card information will be removed in the case where no transactions are active.
- REPORT APPLICATION SERVER NAME - The name of the application server that generates and emails reports from the database backend. Used by OWS.
- REPORT HISTORY PURGE DAYS - Number of days to keep report history in the reports and report destinations tables.
- REPORTING PERIOD - Default the reports to Calendar or Fiscal definitions.
- SCREEN PAINTER TEMPLATE - The name of the Template used for Screen Painting chains.
- SESSION TIME OUT - This setting decides that after how many minutes an idle session on predefined screens will get disconnected from Database. Null value means no disconnect.
- SSO EXTERNAL SYSTEM - External System used for activating the External SSO links.
- TOOLBAR STYLE - Tool Bar Style to be used for the Property.
- TYPES OF EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES - Those types of bookings scheduled with and external activities scheduler system.
- WEEKEND DAYS - Define which are Weekend Days.
- YIELD CURRENCY CODE - Currency code of the OPUS revenue management system.