Location
A Location (also known as a Place) is an
abstraction allowing policies to be applied to groups of
equipment. Users can be granted roles on locations just as they
can on equipment and labs, and location policies are applied to
all equipment present in a given location. Usually UW CORAL
locations are meant to represent physical locations, but that is
not always the case. Please note that there is no fixed
relationship between Locations
and Equipment Areas, though the
latter can specify a location if desired.
The fields in the Location resource are as follows:
Name
- ID
- The numeric ID of this location, assigned when it is created.
- Name
- The name of this location as displayed to users.
- Lab
- The lab to which this location belongs.
- Parent
- The parent of this location in the hierarchy, if any.
- Description
- A free-form description.
- Building
- The building containing this location. Currently unused.
Operation
- Capacity
- The notional number of users who can reserve, or use, this
location at once.
- Opening Time
- If this location has a different opening time from the lab
as a whole, it can be entered here.
- Closing Time
- If this location has a different closing time from the lab
as a whole, it can be entered here.
- Kiosk reset URL
- The interlock URL of the scan-in kiosk for this location.
This allows the scan-in station to be reset when a user logs
in with a UW NetID (since a page running in a web browser cannot close
the browser).
- Disable equipment after duration (min)
- If set, equipment sessions lasting longer than this will be
automatically terminated. Use with caution.
Flags
- Users can log in to location
- Controls whether users can scan or log themselves into this location.
- Users can reserve location
- If checked, this location will be selectable on
the Location>Reservations
calendar and users can create reservations there.
- Require separate orientation
- If checked, users without the orientation role on
this location will not be able to reserve, scan in, or enable
equipment in this location, regardless of their orientation
status in the facility as a whole.
- Require separate orientation
- If checked, users without the secondary_orientation role on
this location will not be able to reserve, scan in, or enable
equipment in this location, regardless of their orientation
status in the facility as a whole.
- Cap occupancy at login
- If checked, users will be unable to scan into this
location when the number of users "in" exceeds the limit.
- Cap occupancy at reservation
- If checked, users will be unable to reserve this location
when the number of users with simultaneous reservations
exceeds this limit. If unchecked, arbitrarily many users will
be able to reserve at the same time, but the calendar will
indicate over-capacity periods in a different color.
- Location hours are Lab Hours
- If checked, location sessions in this location are
considered "lab hours" for statistics purposes.
- Log out users overnight
- If checked, all equipment will be automatically disabled in
the middle of the night. Use with caution.
- Reservation Granularity
- The number of minutes to be shown in a single segment of the
reservation calendar. Valid values are integer divisors of 60
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60). The use of other
values may result in unpredictable behavior.
Buttons
Equipment
The Equipment button allows staff to assign
instruments to locations.
Hazards
This button allows hazard requirements to be set on a lab
Hazard requirements apply to all instruments in a lab unless
they are marked immune from hazards, and to all users,
including staff.
Inventory
Allows staff to add Supplies to a location, primarily for use
in an inventory kiosk.