in this lesson you will learn about logging in and out of opera pms changing your password in opera navigating the opera pms menus and accessing the opera knowledge space when you log into your pc on your pc desktop you should have an icon called opera when you double click on that icon it will take you to the opera web page on the left hand side here where it says opera login you have a place for the username the username will be given to you by the ad the admin of your hotel the administrator of your hotel now logging in using the credentials pre-defined by the property system administrator the next line is password your password should be a minimum length of 7 characters and it can be a maximum length of 40 characters required characters in your password must include both alphabetic and numeric characters uniqueness if you are changing your password the new password may not be the same as any of the last four passwords that you have used password is the schema field a schema is a section of the database that holds a particular set of information there are two standard schemas that are typically installed at properties we may call one the live hotel or production which represents the hotel as configured by the system administrators also in the schema drop down you may have one called the training hotel or training this is an exact copy of the live hotel and is used to train the users usually the training hotel will be removed and recreated before the installers depart your property this should be used by the hotel staff for training new employees if you notice down in the left hand corner we have what's called registered terminal when your i.t department installs opera on the workstation during the installation when registered terminal is being loaded it inherits the computer name of the workstation that opera is being loaded on now i'm going to put in my username i'm going to use the username as supervisor and then i will put in my password your it department will create your username and password and the first time you log into opera you will be prompted to change your password if you use the wrong password it will show you that you had an invalid username and password to please try again click on login once you click on login it takes you to the splash page flash page we call this these are the application access controls here the buttons on the splash page provide access to each application with access based on the user permissions most of the day-to-day operation is within the property management system pms here also if you notice down in the left hand corner we have what's called available sessions each time you log into a pms session it allows the user to invoke a maximum of four active sessions at one time so if i want to log into pms i'm going to click on the pms tab notice my available sessions one of them turns red that means that i've used one of the available sessions the pms bar it takes me to the la opera login page i'm going to click on login and that will log me in to the pms system logged in you notice we're on the main page of the opera pms here up at the top we call this the title bar this shows the application which you are in logged into the opera pms and it also tells you what version of opera that you are you currently using at this particular hotel we're using version 5.0 0.05 0.00 16 which means this is the e-patch number 16. over to the right of that is the hotel code or we call this also the resort id which is called elite next to that is the name of your hotel this particular hotel is called the elite training opera and next to that is the business date of your hotel which it shows we're on may 31st 2017 below that on the menu bar is the functions that are available with this application if i click on the word reservations these are your choices for the reservations opera options on the menu bar if i move my cursor over to front desk these are the choices under front desk we have cashiering we have rooms management accounts receivables commissions end of day miscellaneous setup back office interface our help button or menu and then to exit out of opera also on the user information bar here it tells you who is currently logged into this opera session currently supervisor is logged in and that's the username that i used when i logged into opera on the toolbar here this also shows the same as the menu bar these icons represent the same thing as the words when i click on reservation i have the same reservation choices if i click on the icon for front desk you get the same menu choices as you do when you click on the word front desk so a user can either use the top menu bar or they can use this toolbar here with the icons to change my password in opera i would click on the word miscellaneous at the top here or i could click on the icon here called miscellaneous when i click on the miscellaneous icon over on the left here i have a button for change password i would click on change password i would input my old password in and then input my new password and then confirm my new password remember the password has to have seven or more characters or numbers have to have at least one letter or alphabetical letter and one number and it has to be a password that you haven't used in the last four times once you input your old password and your new password you will click on the ok button and it will pop up and say password has been changed successfully also while navigating through opera through all the opera screens if you notice on this page the word reservations has the letter r underlined under front desk it has the letter f underline throughout opera if you would like to navigate using your keyboard instead of using your mouse you can use the alt key and whatever letter is underlined on that word so if i wanted to activate the reservation menu i could do alt r and it would navigate the reservation menu and if i wanted to choose something on that list i can use my down arrow and my up arrow to navigate through there if i put my cursor in the middle of the screen the choices disappear if i want to bring up something in the front desk menu and i want to use my keyboard i would do alt f and it would activate my choices in the front desk menu okay also on this webpage we have the help knowledge at the right we have a opera help if you click on help up at the top and click on opera help this will take you directly to our help option menu it's called our opera knowledge base notice it has all the different items that all the different modules that we have in opera if we wanted to activate and look for information about the opera property management system i can click the plus sign over on the left and if i wanted to look at information about the pms operations i can click on pms operations and over on the right gives you a list of topics that we could that are included in this group if i wanted to learn how to make a reservation in opera i can click on reservation topics and it gives me a list of all the topics in the reservation menu the knowledge base is very helpful and another way that you can access the knowledge base in opera we can use a quick key on our keyboard if you use the f1 quick key press f1 it will also take you to the opera knowledge base notice you have a search box up here at the top so if you're searching for a particular area that you want to that you need help with you can do a search there and it will search everything in the opera knowledge base to get out of the opera knowledge base you just click the x on the tab up the top and it will take you back to your main menu also under the help area you have about opera here so if i click on about opera it takes you to this opera hotel version information it tells you the installation date of your opera and what items that you have installed in this particular hotel we have opera pms installed and what version we're on and it also tells us what else we've been what we've created and we have the opera oxy that has been loaded here tells you our forms version tells you what database we're on we're on the oracle database 11g and it tells you the database language this is called the opera version opera hotel version info i click close and it takes me back to the main menu okay in this lesson we have learned about logging in and out of the opera pms i have showed you how to change your password i have also showed you how to navigate to the different opera pms menus and i also showed you how to access the opera knowledge base going to opera help i showed you about about opera and also another way to access the opera help is by pressing the f1 key on your keyboard that concludes this session