Booking Notes

This is the fourth of six tasks described in this user manual for changing booking or quote details.

NOTE: The numbering is simply for reference - there is no particular order in which tasks need to be completed and, depending on the Booking, they might not all be needed.

The full list is:

  1. General Setup
  2. Pax Travelling
  3. Markup / Commission
  4. Booking Notes (this task)
  5. Agent Notes
  6. Recalculate Booking

There are Booking Notes and Agent Notes:

  • Booking Notes allows free-format notes to be added to the Booking under a range of predefined Note Categories, which must first have been set up via Home > System > Code Setup > Messaging > Notes. Notes can be output on documents and messages to both agents and suppliers if the note category is set to 'Include in Messaging'.
  • Booking Notes will sort data by note category.
  • Agent Notes allows viewing (read-only) of notes attached to the agent.

Insert a Booking Note

  1. If you haven't already done so, search for and retrieve a Booking to work with (see Retrieve an Existing Quote/Booking).

NOTE: If you are using multi language note categories, a further field selection to assign a language occurs. This allows language alternative text to be inserted within a booking note and if message templates are configured to use multi language notes then the note information will be generated using the appropriate alternative language.

About Booking Notes Formatting Fields

The rich text editor section (or body) of the note is a blank page for the booking note text to be inserted or edited.

The Editing screen has the following items:

Format type Format Option Descriptions
Format Format of the paragraph text. Normal, Headings 1,2,3,4,5, & 6, Formatted, Address,
Font Font of text (will default from the INI Setting DEFAULTFONT)
Size Font Size of text (will default from the INI Setting DEFAULTEDITFONTSIZE)
  Style, Font and Font Size. The available styles and fonts are the Windows styles and fonts installed on the computer running Tourplan

Bold - highlight the text to be bold faced and click this button

Italics - highlight the text to be italic and click this button

Underline - highlight the text to underlined and click this button

Colour of text – highlight the text to change the colour and click this button

Numbered bullet points - click this button to create a numbered list

Bullet points - click this button to create a bulleted list

Left aligned text - click this button to justify text on the left margin

Centre aligned text - click this button to centre text between the left and right margins

Right aligned text - click this button to justify text on the right margin

Left and Right justified text. Click this button to justify text between the left & right margins

Insert a URL link – click this button to insert the text you want showing as a hyperlink and insert the required URL

Upload an image – click this button to upload an image

Insert a table – click this button to insert a table

Cut text (Ctrl+X) highlight text to be cut and click this button

Copy text (Ctrl+C) highlight text to be copied and click this button

Paste text (Ctrl+V) place the cursor at the point where copied/cut text is to be placed and click this button

Selecting this button will show the text editor in CSS styling source code