If you are assigned to the RESERVATION MANAGER user role, the Cancel Selected button is available to you. Using this button, you can cancel multiple reservations at once.
For example, if one particular floor of a building is under renovation for a week, you can cancel all reservations on that floor for that week at once. You might need to cancel a large number of reservations in a particular building due to an emergency, such as a power outage or water main break. By canceling these reservations, the manager can quickly inform all requestors that have a reservation on a particular day. You can also enter a comment for the cancellation, so that you can, for example, inform attendees of the reason for the cancellation. You can cancel both room and resource reservations in this way.
This procedure describes canceling multiple reservations that you select. If the reservation is a recurring reservation, using this method, you must search for and select each reservation in the series to cancel it.
Note: To cancel multiple reservations, you must be logged on as the Reservations Manager.
To cancel multiple reservations:
The Room Reservations or Resources Reservations list shows all reservations matching your criteria.
Notice that the Reservation Type field indicates whether the reservation is a regular (single) or recurring reservation. Since each occurrence of a recurring reservation is listed separately, you can select all or some of the occurrences. To cancel the entire set of occurrences, select them all.
Before continuing, the application verifies that all selected reservations can be cancelled. If some of the reservations cannot be cancelled, an error message “Some reservations cannot be cancelled.” is shown, with a list of the reservation IDs that couldn't be cancelled.
The Confirm cancel reservations form appears.
The system checks that the reservation's start time is later than the site's current time, and that the resource's or arrangement's cancellation time is also later than the site's current time. You cannot cancel a reservation if these requirements are not met
The reservation is canceled. If you have Exchange integration, Exchange sends the emails; otherwise Web Central sends the email notifications to all attendees and the meeting requestor.
If some of the reservations you selected could not be canceled, a message appears giving the Reservation Codes for these reservations. Click OK to dismiss the message. For example, this message displays for reservations that were rejected, and therefore cannot be cancelled.
The Reservation Application retrieves the Exchange meeting based on the outlook_unique_id stored in the reservation. It instructs Exchange to delete the meeting from the requestor’s calendar, and to send cancellation messages to all attendees.
If the corresponding Exchange meeting is not found, a message informs of this.