Showing Reservation Details before check-in

This example shows how to use an Event Action to automatically open the Reservation Details dialog when checking in a customer.  (Version 4.0 or later required.)  This may be useful if you want to review the information before doing the check-in.  

1. Go to Maintenance / Advanced Customizations / Event Actions.

2. Click Add Event Action.

3. Enter an Action Name, like "Resv Details before check-in".

4. For the Event Trigger, select "Check in reservation, before".

5. For the Action expression, enter:

EditReservation(ThisResv())

That's all there is to it.

To get fancier and only do this only under certain conditions,such as not having How-heard filled in, with a message beforehand to indicate why it's going to Details, then use this Action expression (be sure to copy it exactly -- every quote and back-slash is important):

iifq(Resv:Resv_HowHeard = "", 'Evalq(\'MessageBox("How-Heard has not been set!  Please set it in the following Reservation Details window.")\', \'EditReservation(ThisResv())\')','.F.')

There are a lot of other possibilities, and potentially you could even use this to abort the check-in if conditions still aren't met after editing the reservation details.