Rooms and Resources design in Lotus Notes/Domino 7  Learn about
how we've improved the design and function of the Rooms and
Resources feature in Lotus Notes/Domino 7.   Bruce Kahn,
Advisory Software Engineer, IBM  Bruce Kahn is an Advisory
Software Engineer for IBM. He frequently volunteers and teaches
classes for the American Red Cross. On weekends, he occasionally
gets to spend time with his family.  30 August 2005  Also
available in Japanese  Lotus Domino 4.5 saw the introduction of
Rooms and Resources (R&R) functionality, along with Calendaring
and Scheduling (C&S). The R&R system is intended to be an
integrated way for users to reserve rooms or resources for
meetings, events, or any sort of activity. When setting up a
meeting, you can invite a desired meeting room and/or resource,
as you would other users, either from within the C&S interface
or from an R&R database. Unlike C&S, which is part of each
user's mail file, R&R requests were handled by using a shared
database in which each room or resource res