SRS - Symposium Registration System
                                    V2.0

                                Submitted by
                        Keith Weaver and Brad Tinney
                       Canadian Hydrographic Service
                             867 Lakeshore Road
                            Burlington, Ontario
                                   L7R 4A6
                            (416) 336-4538/4728

Operating System: VAX VMS V4.7 and later. Source Language: Fortran. Software
Required: Fortran, FMS, Datatrieve. Hardware Required: LA50/LA75 for badges,
VT220/VT24x for announcements. Keywords: Registration

ABSTRACT:

The DECUS Symposium Registration System is designed to store records on
Attendees, Payments, Events, Counts and Messages. It can print badges, generate
reports, and display announcements and messages. It has been used at the 1988
and 1989 DECUS CANADA Symposia.

All sources, forms and Datatrieve procedures are included. Badges are printed
with the first name centered on the badge in a large (approx 24 point) font and
printed in sixel mode. The remaining information is printed in the standard
way. Messages and announcements are written to a VT220 or VT241 (for colour) in
double width (and some double height) characters spaced away from the edges of
the screen to support driving standard composite video monitors. This has been
used to drive a hotel or conference centre TV channel. There has been up to 10
on-line terminals using this system, but this is not a maximum. CPU loading is
very light except for reports in Datatrieve.

FUNCTIONS:

REGISTRATION - adds, cancels, updates data records on registered participants
PAYMENTS     - adds, deletes, updates data records on payment details
PICKUP       - adds additonal information when a registered participant comes
               in for on-site registration (whether pre-registered or not)
               (eg. Room No.)
EVENTS       - lists, adds, deletes, updates data records on Symposium events
COUNTS       - displays current participant counts for all events including
               Total attending, Total deleted, and next computer generated SRN
RECEIPTS     - Prints the receipt form, according to the data entered by the
               operator. * Not currently supported (seperate images provided)
REPORTS      - A large suite of Datatrieve Procedures provide for counts, lists,
               and other reports from the backup data set.
MESSAGES     - Post announcements on a monitor or cable system.
             - Post a message. Only the name and registration number is
               displayed, the message is taken and stored at the Registration
               Desk or Information Desk manually.
BACKUP       - creates a copy of all data (.DAT) files on SRS$BACKUP (logical)
               using VMS BACKUP.
BADGES       - create a badge with the participants name, affiliation, city
               major events attending, and SRN/DECUS-No. Supports batch runs.


OTHER UTILITIES:

RECEIPTS     - Generate a full page receipt for each registrant.
PRTFLB       - Print the forms in the Library (.FLB) file
PRTFRM       - Print the forms in the Form (.FRM) file
REDUCE       - Compress the output from a DTR log file. Used for reducing the
               SUM 1 by command when generating online/interactive DTR summary
               reports.


RESTRICTIONS:

Each year, changes have been made to the registration forms, requiring
modifications to the FMS forms and underlying logic. To reduce this impact, an
effort was made to use offset variables for all record fields in all routines.
Extensive changes however are still non-trivial. A conference or meeting with a
stable registration form would be ideal for this system. Cost changes are
straight forward as are changes in events.