Favourite Error Message of the Day

Now lets all give a round of applause the University Room Booking System….

Update on Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 12:42PM by Rob

I've been racking my brains as to why you would have a need for such a message. And I think I've found it.

Suppose that you were only allowed to book a particular number of rooms each year. And each time you cancelled a room booking it was taken off your tally for the year. One neat trick would be to cancel the bookings that you have made in the past to reduce your tally and become able to book more rooms than other folks who weren't quite as cunning as you....

If anyone has any better ideas I'd love to hear them.

Comments

[Joe Stead]

Pretty boring reason, but probably for auditing reasons. If room is damaged or whatever the system will know exactly who booked it and when.

[Mathew J. Spearey]

Bit poor for an auditing system, the data shouldn't be deleted anyway just hidden.

Yes it will look like the user had cancelled the booked room but anyone with the right authorisation would still be able to see who had booked that room, cancelled or not.