Seat Naming in Tessitura

Our Director of IT built a custom Seat Plaques radio button on the custom screen with 3 sections: Seat (drop-down with all nameable seats in both of our theaters—once one has been chosen, it drops down to the bottom and cannot be reused); Plaque Text (what’s actually written on the plaque); and Notes (for any special circumstances—e.g. we noted if plaques were given to someone for performing in our gala, etc.) We entered the information retroactively on each person’s constituent record.

He then built a custom Seat Plaque Report that pulls all of the information. We can sort however we want—by constituent, theater, section, etc.

It works well for us. Let me know if you have any questions.

caroline hendrix | development assistant

The New 42nd Street, Inc.

229 West 42nd Street, 10th Floor

New York, NY 10036-7299

p: (646) 223-3084 | f: (646) 223-3032 | e: chendrix@new42.org

Hello all,

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is in the midst of a seat naming campaign and I am looking for the best way to track what the contributors want put on their seat plaque.  A few caveats:

We don't have the venue built in Tessitura yet.  At some point in the future we will probably set up a "performance" allowing us to "sell" that seat to the patron who named it.  

So, is there a way (custom screen? Aliases?) to track the 200 character long messages that the contributors are choosing? What things have others tried?

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Our Director of IT built a custom Seat Plaques radio button on the custom screen with 3 sections: Seat (drop-down with all nameable seats in both of our theaters—once one has been chosen, it drops down to the bottom and cannot be reused); Plaque Text (what’s actually written on the plaque); and Notes (for any special circumstances—e.g. we noted if plaques were given to someone for performing in our gala, etc.) We entered the information retroactively on each person’s constituent record.

He then built a custom Seat Plaque Report that pulls all of the information. We can sort however we want—by constituent, theater, section, etc.

It works well for us. Let me know if you have any questions.

caroline hendrix | development assistant

The New 42nd Street, Inc.

229 West 42nd Street, 10th Floor

New York, NY 10036-7299

p: (646) 223-3084 | f: (646) 223-3032 | e: chendrix@new42.org

Hello all,

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is in the midst of a seat naming campaign and I am looking for the best way to track what the contributors want put on their seat plaque.  A few caveats:

We don't have the venue built in Tessitura yet.  At some point in the future we will probably set up a "performance" allowing us to "sell" that seat to the patron who named it.  

So, is there a way (custom screen? Aliases?) to track the 200 character long messages that the contributors are choosing? What things have others tried?

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