Meetings Management 2.0
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Intro
The Meeting Management Project (MMP) focuses on developing an updated web application for managing meetings. The key improvements include:
- Implementing a revamped meeting management web application;
- Upgrading the room booking and pre-booking features;
- Replacing the meeting calendar functions currently offered by the DS legacy web application.
A detailed list of main features is presented in the table below:
| Feature | Description | Main Benefits |
| Next gen, intuitive UI | The new intuitive, user-centred interface for the meeting management module provides a seamless user experience to schedule meetings and navigate the meeting list and room allocation. |
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| Wizard including progression tracker | A step-by-step guide (4 steps maximum) allows meeting creators to easily schedule meetings and ensure all required information is compiled in the same place. |
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| Summary page | The summary page, i.e. the last step of the meeting creation process, provides a comprehensive view of all meeting details before publishing and allows to update/adjust any parameter easily. |
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| Cloning meetings | The clone feature allows to duplicate an existing/previous meeting in one click directly from the meeting list. Only new information (such as date/time) will need to be updated. |
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| Enhanced management of contributions | Single location to manage ETSI and 3GPP contributions settings: contributions can be defined directly from the meeting creation interface and at meeting creation time with direct links to allocation management and reservation of block of contributions. |
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| Synchronization meeting types & bodies | Only the relevant meeting types to the concerned bodies are displayed. |
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| Events and sub-events | Sub-events can be configured under one global event, allowing individual registration for each sub-event. |
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| Possibility for external / non-EoL users to register for certain meeting types | TB/ISG Open Sessions can be open for self-registration of external / non EoL users. The Open Sessions will be displayed in the same section of the ETSI portal as other concerned TB/ISG meetings. There is no need to use “type = workshop” anymore. |
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| Advanced features for meeting administrators | With the new version, the meeting creators can now:
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| Independent management of online and F2F registration | For hybrid meetings, different dates can be defined for online and F2F registration. F2F registration can be closed without impacting online registration. |
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| Enhanced room allocation calendar view | Day/Week/Month view of ETSI Premises room allocation provides a clear and comprehensive overview of room usage and availability, including current pre-booked and booked rooms. |
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| Enhanced meeting list with advanced search / filter options | It is easier to search, sort and filter meetings using the meeting list. |
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| Advanced room reservation module for ETSI premises | This embedded module streamlines and enhances the process of booking meeting rooms in ETSI:
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| Enhanced room allocation management | The room administrators do not need the DS desktop application anymore to handle room allocation, all actions can be done seamlessly directly from the Meeting Management module. |
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| Usability enhancements | The theme used is WCAG 2.1 AA compliant. |
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Disclaimer
- As the application evolves, please note that the content/videos/screenshots might differ from the current version. We are doing our best to keep this user guide up to date.
- All details displayed on the screenshots/videos are from a testing environment, so please consider them as dummy data.
- The menu and options shown could differ depending on user rights.
Access rights
Meeting management application is accessible using an EOL account.
There are 3 different profiles:
- Meeting administrators => ETSI Staff, access is not limited depending on Bodies (with few exceptions);
- Super-users
- Body Officials (Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Acting Chair, Convenor). In case of Joint meeting, only the Body Officials of the "master"/parent Bodies (i.e., the Body to which the meeting was primarily attached at Meeting creation) are part of the Meeting Super-users group.
- Rapporteurs (active work items' rapporteurs are allowed to create and manage specific type of meetings for their specific groups)
- Room Administrators => ETSI Staff members who are part of the Events (EVE) meeting support team + ITC team.
Meeting category - type matrix
Depending on Meeting category and Body (if it is the case) the user has the possibility to decide what type of meeting to create.
Meeting statuses
UNSAVED = this value is displayed in the meeting creation screen, when the user is starting the creation process, but it has not yet saved any information (it has not yet pressed the “save as draft” button). The value indicates to the user that no information is saved yet in the data base, therefore once the user is quitting the page/closing the browser, the information will be lost. The meeting is not yet displayed in the meeting calendar.
DRAFT = this meeting status is indicating that the “save as draft” button has been saved at least once during the creation process. To be sure that the most recent information added has been saved, the user should press the “save as draft” button. The meeting is not yet displayed in the meeting calendar.
PRECONFIRMED = the user has finished the creation and has pressed the “Publish” button, but the meeting cannot be published until the EVE team is approving the room request. The meeting is not yet displayed in the meeting calendar.
CONFIRMED = the user has finished the creation and has pressed the “Publish” button. All conditions are met for the system to automatically confirm the meeting creation (and room allocation if it is the case). The meeting is displayed in the meeting calendar (unless it has been marked as hidden).
FINALIZED = the end date/time of the meeting is in the past. The meeting is displayed in the meeting calendar (unless it has been marked as hidden).
CANCELLED = the meeting has been cancelled after being Confirmed.
Room statuses
AVAILABLE = a room for which there are no reservations or requests between a specific start/end date/time.
PREBOOKED = when the user is choosing an available and recommended room and saves the meeting as draft.
BOOKED = when the user is publishing a meeting for which it selected an available and recommended room.
PENDING = when the user is choosing an available, but not recommended room, and it press the Publish button. The meeting will not be published until the EVE team will review the room request. If the EVE team approve the room request, the status of the room becomes Booked. In case EVE team denies the room request, the room status becomes Available.
Room recommendations matrix
When the meeting is organized on ETSI Premises, the system is recommending a list of meeting rooms, depending on availability and room capacity. Below is the matrix that indicates which meeting room could be displayed as "Available & Recommended" depending on its capacity (marked in this table with "x" and light blue background) and which meeting rooms will be displayed as "Available" (marked in this table with dark blue background).
For more details, please see the legend below:
Create a meeting
For starting the creation of a new meeting, there are multiple options:
- go to https://portal.etsi.org/meetings-management/#/
- if you the user is already on the meetings management administration page (https://portal.etsi.org/meetings-management/#/admin/list), by clicking on "Create meeting" button:
- from the ETSI Portal -> Meeting calendar, by clicking on "New meeting"
After clicking on 'Create meeting' button on the top-left corner, the user is redirected to the 1st step of meeting creation’s form:
Meeting details
On Meeting Details page, the user must fill in the mandatory fields (marked with *):
- Meeting Category
- Meeting type
- Start & End dates
- Presence types allowed
- Generated Meeting reference
- Meeting contacts
- Registration start
All the fields and drop-down options not marked with a * are considered optional.
(Some mandatory fields might be prefilled, but the user can still edit them).
Once all the mandatory fields are filled in (and some optional, depending on the user‘s needs), the user has 2 options to continue at the bottom of the Meeting details screen:
- either click on the ‘Save as draft’ button – this will save your meeting as a draft;
- Or click the button ‘Next step’ to go to the next step
Useful tip:
Hover over your mouse on an input field, little tooltip appears, providing you with essential info or guidance:
Below is a short demo video covering the 1st step of Meeting creation:
Room allocation
‘Room allocation’ is the 2nd step of the meeting creation process. The user can proceed to the room allocation after they complete the ‘Meeting Details’ step:
- If the meeting being created is taking place at ETSI premises, the user will see the following screen :
The user needs to fill in all the necessary fields marked * about the desired meeting room:
- Start & End booking date/time and Room capacity needed are prefilled from the previous step; the user can edit the information upon the needs;
- The user can request here special IT equipment they need for the meeting or any other requirements (like whiteboards, post-its, etc):
- There is an option to add more rooms to the meeting – pressing the green plus button below meeting room #N. When pressed, Meeting Room #N appears and "Start & End booking date/time" and "Room capacity needed" are mandatory to fill in.
On the right side of the screen, there is a Room selector that offers the possibility to choose the room for the meeting. The best suitable options will be marked as ‘Available and ‘Recommended’:
To preview the room, the user must click on the blue text ‘Preview room’ under the room name in the room selector, that will lead them to the pictures of the room:
- File:MMPv2 Room allocation 7.png
The user must select the desired room by clicking on it on the room selector:
- The Room becomes highlighted
- Meeting Room #N label changes from ‘To complete’ to ‘Completed’
The user can proceed to the next step, go back to the previous step or save the meeting as a draft.
- If the meeting being created is NOT taking place at ETSI premises, at the 2nd step ‘Room Allocation’ , the user will see the following message on the screen:
From this screen, the user is able to go back to ‘previous step’, continue with meeting creation choosing ‘next step’ button or opt for ‘save meeting as a draft’.
Payment settings
Contribution settings
- Contributions is the 4th step of meeting creation process.
Once on the Contributions screen, the user may opt for allowing contributions to a meeting simply by switching ‘Switch on if you allow contributions’ on:
- Once the switch is on, the user must fill in the mandatory (marked with *) Contribution allocation fields:
- Contribution reservation start
- Contribution reservation end
- Contribution upload end
- Meeting prefix
- Once all mandatory Contribution settings are defined, the user can continue to the next step, go back to the previous step or save the meeting as a draft. (Some mandatory fields might be prefilled, but the user can still edit them).
Summary
- The last step of meeting creation process is the Display of the meeting's summary:
- All the meeting details (all the field labels and values chosen) are summarized inside a collapsible/expandable section, divided into groups (which correspond to the previous steps:
SCREENSHOT
- A complementary print-to-PDF option “Print to PDF” appears below the meeting details section:
- A “Save as draft” button is shown, at the bottom centre-left, allowing the user to save the changes in the database, but without making the meeting public. The meeting is saved in status "DRAFT".
- At the bottom of the Summary screen, there are several action buttons. The user can go back to the previous step, save the meeting as a draft, publish the meeting or delete the meeting:
