Parking

The Parking function makes it easy for users to avoid parking tickets at school. With this module, the school can administer their parking spaces with the parking company. Through the app, students and employees can get a valid, digital parking permit simply by entering their vehicle’s registration number in the app or in UMS Web. When the registration number has been entered, it becomes visible to the parking company. The parking company will then know that the user is allowed to park at the school. Available integration includes Parkzone, APCOA, and City Parkeringssystem.

Prerequisites

Supported administrative systems

• Parkzone
• Apcoa
• Q-Park
• City Parkering
  • The public IP address of the web server and backend server needs to whitelisted at City parkering.
• COPARK

Module requirements

Parking

Should third party be contacted

You'll need a client key (and possibly a password) from the parking company before UMS can communicate with their services.

Installation

It is necessary to have a running UMS installation.

Configuration settings

Parking Settings

In the configurator go to:

Modules -> Parking

Parking settings in the configurator

There are 3 main parts of the parking system that needs to be set up:

Parking servers

It is possible to set up multiple parking server systems.

First, choose your parking system

The description is used as a name or reference in the configurator and is not visible to users.

You should have been provided a company key and a password by your parking provider. Enter them in these parking server settings. 

Parking server settings

Parking places

You can have multiple parking places.

The parking place description is shown to users that have multiple parking systems to choose from, so make sure that this is a good identifier.

Keep registration alive for X days

Keeps the registration alive in the parking system for x number of days after the user is no longer allowed to park at the parking place.

0 means it will not be kept alive.

Delete users

Users that are removed in UMS will also be deleted from the parking system.

Cleanup

Users that exists in the parking system but not UMS will also be deleted.

Maximum number of license plates

Set the number of registrations a user is allowed to have at this parking place.

Mail Domain

Is used only when a parking is created for a user that does not have a private email address entered. If there is a private email address, it will be used. Otherwise, the username concatenated with the Mail Domain will be send.

Upload name of users

Enabling this will tell UMS to upload the first name and given name of users.

Parking place

Apcoa

Login to Apcoa portal go under "Personal parkering" -> "Grupper". Click "Rediger" on the group (parking place) your looking for.

Copy the number in the address line after the last forwards slash "/" into parking place.

City-Parkering

You need a Company key and a password.

Contact City-Parkering to receive it.

COPARK

Administration URL https://copark-admin.dk/parking-portal

You need an API-token. You have to contact COPARK to get one or more for your parking places

One API-token is tied to one parking place.

ParkZone

You need an API key.

Contact ParkZone to receive it.

Q-Park

Administration URL https://access.e-park.dk/Account/Login

You need a username and a password.

Contact Q-Park to receive it.

Parking settings

You can set up a parking setting per template, so that one set of users have access to some parking places but not others.

If you only have one parking place, and everyone has access to it, you can just create one parking setting.

A parking setting is a collection of allowed and not allowed parking places.

You can connect a parking setting to a template:

1. Go to edit template.
2. Find the parking menu and select the parking setting you want for you template.

App

Parking spaces

This view is a list of all parking spaces the school has available (based on your template).

If you only have 1 present, that parking space will automatically be selected and this step will be skipped.

First choose your Parking Space.

Parking registrations

When you have selected a parking space, you will see a list of your registered license plates along with a timestamp of when this was registered.

Here you can edit and delete existing registrations, as well as create more, up to the allowed number of registrations the school has specified.

You can add a license plate by clicking on the "plus sign" in the top right.

General info

The app does not (visually) act differently whether the school is running APCOA, Parkzone or CityParking.

Web interface

To register a license plate with a parking system go to “Your info”.

Go to your info

If a parking system has been installed and you have access to it, you should see a parking menu.

You can then create a new parking, by clicking on the "create new".

You can see your parking permits.

Enter your license plate and select which parking location you want to use. If you only have access to one parking place, you do not have to choose one.

Once you click 'ok', the parking should be registered with the parking system and you should be good to go.

Enter your registration number and choose a parking spot.

You can always edit or delete your parking.

A created registration

Parameters

CityParking

Only runs City parking (This is a system type)

CreateRegistrations

Create registrations

UpdateRegistrations

Update registrations

DeleteRegistrations

Delete registrations

DeleteActiveRegistrationsNotFoundInDB

Delete all unknown (to UMS) registrations in a parking place. Recreate all missing registrations in the parking system.(Known to UMS but not parking system)

ShowParkingPlaces

Show parking places that exists on the parking servers

ShowRegistrationInParkingPlace

Show all registrations in a specific parking place

This can be either the parking place id or the description for that parking place in UMS