This question is for any of you who issue equipment to students - has anyone explored ways to track it in Tessitura?
One of the sublicensees in my consortium is interested in doing this. They have several hundred loaner instruments issued within our community on an annual basis, and want to integrate the tracking into Tessitura with as much automation as possible.
Stacey VoigtConsortium Services ManagerSanta Barbara Center for the Performing Artssvoigt@granadasb.org
Stacey,
How are the pieces of equipment being logged in Tessitura? This is something I could imagine being made significantly easier once the Resource Scheduling is made available in the next software version.
In the meantime, we do use barcodes at Tulsa Ballet to track patron attendance at our free membership events; the barcode is generated from the constituent Tessitura ID, printed on the back of a nametag, and then scanned in using an iPhone/Android app to generate a .CSV file that is imported into Tessitura as a list to update Special Activity attendance.
That might be an option in this case if the equipment is barcode tagged with a Tessitura ID, but it all depends on how the equipment data is being tracked.
Happy to share some more details on our process if it might prove useful.
Thank you,
Brian
I guess you could do this by creating a season for loaners and performances set to year 2100 or something ridiculous leaving the doors open, for each type of instrument. Make the seat represent a single instrumnet and then use in and out within nscan. That is the only way I can think of using a barcode and Tessitura.
Travis