Basic architecture
The NETx BMS Server provides the opportunity to integrate hotel room status information from an
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The Infor HMS provides a standardized interface based on the SOAP protocol which provides a two-way communication between the NETx BMS Server and the Infor HMS to synchronize status of hotel rooms and receive updates such as check in, check out, and room move.
On NETx BMS Server startup, the current status of all configured rooms is synchronized to our system. Once the Infor plugin has been started, the Infor HMS notifies our system when on of the following actions occur:
- Room Check In (101)
- Room Check Out (102)
- Room Move (103 => 104)
The NETx BMS Server keeps track of the room status within the item tree.
Installation
The driver is implemented as a plugin for the NETx BMS Server. Therefore, it has to be installed via the Extension Manager. To do so, stop the NETx BMS Server and open the Extension Manager via the BMS Studio using the menu "Extensions". Select the "Infor" interface and press install as shown in the following screenshot:
After having installed the interface, restart the NETx BMS Studio.
Integration steps
Basic
Once the Infor plugin has been successfully installed, you should see a menu entry "Infor" within the menu "Modules".
To configure how to connect to the Infor HMS and vice versa, click the "Configuration ..." entry within "Modules" => "Infor".
Parameters (the yellow highlighted parameters are MANDATORY for the Infor Plugin to work properly)
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Rooms
For the NETx BMS Server to know which rooms need be tracked, you have to provide some information regarding the room definitions.
You should be able to export this information from the Infor HMS and import it to the NETx BMS Studio so that you don't have to enter it manually.
To do so, click the "Room definitions" menu entry within the "Modules" => "Infor" entry.
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After having defined all rooms, the NETx BMS Server has to be restarted. Afterwards, the configured rooms are shown within the item tree under the sub tree "NETx\XIO\Infor\Main".
The retrieved information for each room from the Infor HMS is stored as a server item "RoomChecked" within the configured path.
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