OEDS Group Application Settings for ADS

The OEDS Group Application Settings are only available when either the OPG_XXX (for GDS) or OPA_XXX (for ADS) licenses are active.

Highlight the OEDS group and then select the Settings radio button to configure the available OEDS settings.

The following settings are available:

ADS IATA - This setting determines which IATA is attached to the ADS reservations. This must be a valid IATA number that is attached to the TA profile. At the Property level, this setting determines which profile is attached to the Expedia reservations. This can be any of the configured profiles in Opera.

ADS MODE - This setting, which is property specific, determines what mode the Opera ADS interface should accept incoming reservations. The BLOCK_SEARCH field should be selected on the Channel Setup as well. If HOUSE is selected, then availability will be pulled from House. If BLOCK is selected, then availability will be pulled from the Block. If HOUSE,BLOCK is selected, then availability will be pulled from the House if the BLOCK_SEARCH field value is empty and availability will be pulled from the Block if BLOCK_SEARCH field value is not empty.

Note: This setting is only available for versions 4.0+. For versions 3.0 up to (but not including) 3.6, this is set up on the Configuration tab of the Property Configuration screen. For versions 3.6 up to (but not including) 4.0, this is set up in the GDS Group Application Settings.

AIRPORT CODE - The airport code for the ORS city. This setting cannot be null.

AVH BATCH SIZE - The number of AVH messages to consolidate at a time.

AVH PROCESSING LIMIT - The number of AVH messages to process at a time.

CANCEL FORMAT - Cancellation Format Text. The available options are GDS and Property.

CANCEL WINDOW - The number of minutes during which reservation can be cancelled without penalty, once the booking is made. At the property level, the defined time allows the agent to cancel a non-cancellable booking or booking that would be within the applicable cancel policy penalty.

CHANNEL INVENTORY SELECTION - The available options are Sequence, MaxAvail, and MaxAvailPercentage.

When set to SEQUENCE, the room category order will be set to sequence in channel management.
When set to MaxAvail, the room category order will be the maximum available rooms for the selected room type.
When set to MaxAvailPercentage, the room category order will be a percentage of the rooms available for the room type.

GDS MAXAVAIL ALTERNATE RESORT - Indicates the maximum number of properties that can be returned as an alternate property if the requested property is not available.

GDS PURGE INTERVAL - The interval, in minutes, that old GDS data is purged from the temporary tables once processed. The purge interval works in conjunction with the Purge action, and this value cannot be null.

GLOBAL ADS MODE - This setting will determine what mode the Opera ADS interface should accept incoming reservations. If set to HOUSE, then availability will be pulled from the House. If set to BLOCK, then availability will be pulled from the Block. The BLOCK_SEARCH field should be populated on the Channel Setup screen as well.

GUEST ADDRESS PHONE UPDATE - If the guest address or phone information is changed during the modification of the booking in the GDS system, the new address/phone information is inserted, updated, or not modified based on the value selected. The available values are Insert, Update, and None.

MAX ALLOWED EXTRA - The maximum number of extra persons allowed.

MAX ALLOWED ROLLAWAY - The maximum number of rollaway beds allowed.

MAX AVAIL LIST ITEMS - The maximum number of items returned for a search. If paging is supported, this can be a multiple of the MAX ITEMS PER MESSAGE, with a maximum allowed of 100.

MAX RATE UPDATE - The maximum number of rate update messages.

MAX REGIONAL RATEDAYS - The price table for regional availability, populated for a given number of days. At the property level, this parameter indicates the maximum number of days in advance to populate the regional availability rate range table, which is used by a Regional Availability search. 336 is the suggested value, since the GDS hosts can search up to 331 days out.

PROFILE NAME CASE SET - This setting allows the profile name to appear in the letter case type that the property wishes display on the profile screen. The available values are UPPERCASE, LOWERCASE, and INITCAPS.

PURGE ACTION - The action to apply for a session purge. The available values are ET (end transaction) and IG (ignore). The purge action works in conjunction with the purge interval, and this value cannot be null.

RATE PLAN TEXT - The description to use when updating the rate plan text. The available values are RATE_HEADER (Rate Header Description) and PROPERTY (Marketing Text for the Property).

RATE UPDATE - The GDS rate update method. The available values are PEGASUS and LANYON.

SEARCH FOR MEMBERSHIP NO. - Allows for a profile match based any one of the criteria selected, in addition to the profile membership number.

SWITCH PALSRP FORMAT - Displays the Pegasus message in a structured or segmented format. The available values are STRUCTURED (Structured format), and SEGMENTED (Segmented format).

TIME OUT - Enter the number (in minutes) after the last activity in which the current session will time-out and be cancelled.

TIME OUT MESSAGE - The message to display when a session has timed-out.