| Area |
Group of rooms sharing schedule and policy settings |
| Room |
Individually bookable resource; not necessarily a physical room |
| Entry |
One stored booking occurrence |
| Repeat |
Recurrence definition associated with generated entries |
| Participant |
User registered for an entry |
| Booking administrator |
User allowed to administer bookings for selected resources |
| System administrator |
Access-level 2 user with installation-wide administration |
| Session method |
Strategy used to obtain and retain the current user identity |
| Authentication method |
Strategy used to verify a user or credentials |
| Period mode |
Scheduling with named slots instead of clock times |
| Resolution |
Smallest time interval offered in time-based areas |
| Provisional booking |
Booking awaiting approval |
| Private booking |
Booking whose details are hidden according to policy |
| Kiosk mode |
Auto-refreshing calendar presentation for a shared display |
| Multisite |
One MRBS code installation serving multiple configured sites |
| Table prefix |
Configurable prefix applied to MRBS database table names |
| Schema version |
Value recording the installed database structure version |
| PDO |
PHP Data Objects database interface used by MRBS adapters |
| SAPI |
Interface through which a web server executes PHP |
| Identity provider |
External system that authenticates or describes users |
| iCalendar |
RFC 5545-based interchange format for calendar information |
| arc42 |
Template used to structure this architecture documentation |