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Lesson 3.2: Reserve a lab resource for a specific time period

In this lesson you, in the role of lab manager, reserve a lab resource for a specific period.
In this lesson, you use the BetaTest test environment that you created in Lesson 2.5: Create a lab resource test environment to search for a lab resource that matches the test environment. You then reserve the lab resource for two weeks.

To find and reserve a lab resource:

  1. Point to the Lab Management icon ( Lab Management), and click View Lab Resources. The View Lab Resources editor opens.
  2. Click the Select lab resource description (Select lab resource description) icon. The Select Lab Resource Description window opens.
  3. Click BetaTest, the test environment that was created in lesson 2.5. The two lab resources that we defined for this test environment are displayed. Select betaMachine and click OK.
  4. Expand the View Builder section and click Run. Lab resources that match the attributes you defined in the BetaTest test environment lab resource description display.
  5. Click on the name Machine1. The Machine1 details editor opens.
  6. At the bottom of the editor, expand the Reservations section.
  7. In Reserve From, click the calendar icon (Reserve several dates), and select a future date as the date to start using the lab resource (Machine1).
  8. In Reserve To, click the calendar icon, and select an end date that is two weeks after the date you entered in From to finish using Machine1.
  9. Click the Reserve Machine icon (Reserve).

    Notice that the graph displays the dates that you selected. The reservation information is displayed in the table below the graph.

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