Output Set Builder Madness

One of my users is attempting to use Lists and Output Set Builder to pull some ticketing information.  The list works properly, and pulls only the customers that bought from the selected performances.

The problem comes in with Output Set Builder pulling all ticket history for those users.  I realize I can probably set up TR_QUERY_ELEMENT and TR_QUERY_ELEMENT_PARAMETER (if I knew how) to filter to the correct performances, but that would require selecting the same performance data twice, once in the list, and once in Output Set Builder.

Is there a better way?

  • Nope.  There is no relation between the list criteria and the data returned by the output set.  The list criteria is used to generate the contents of your list but after that your list is just a bunch of constituent IDs.  The output set elements control what data is output for that bunch of constituent IDs.

     

    You can read up on adding output set element parameters in the System Tables document:

    http://www.tessituranetwork.com/~/media/Documentation/System%20Administration/System_Tables.ashx

     

    Look at the sections for both TR_QUERY_ELEMENT and TR_QUERY_ELEMENT_PARAMETER.

     

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  • David -

    Depending on what type of information the person wanted you could also look at a report like 'Performance Seating Book' in Ticketing Box Office or 'Performance Report' in Development Reports.
     
    - Heather
     

    Heather Laidlaw Kraft
    SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE

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    From: Tessitura Technical Forum [mailto:forums-technical@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of David Crowell
    Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:27 AM
    To: Heather Laidlaw Kraft
    Subject: [Tessitura Technical Forum] Output Set Builder Madness

    One of my users is attempting to use Lists and Output Set Builder to pull some ticketing information.  The list works properly, and pulls only the customers that bought from the selected performances.

    The problem comes in with Output Set Builder pulling all ticket history for those users.  I realize I can probably set up TR_QUERY_ELEMENT and TR_QUERY_ELEMENT_PARAMETER (if I knew how) to filter to the correct performances, but that would require selecting the same performance data twice, once in the list, and once in Output Set Builder.

    Is there a better way?




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  • I asked a question about unwanted ticket lines in query output a while back and Sandra Ashby gave me a great tip; when you set up your composite query item use an unusual character as a break between each element, we use ~ and it means that when you save to Excel you can split the text to columns by this character.   It works a treat and our member events co-ordinator was really pleased with the result.

    It looks like this in practice (in case my explanation was rubbish)

    Description:   Ticket dt~Perf name~No seats

    Data Select:   cast(!.perf_dt as char (12)) + '~' + !.production + '~' + cast(!.tot_seats as char (3))



    [edited by: Suzanne Bridger at 5:44 AM (GMT -6) on 12 Jun 2009]