Hi all,
We're having a really hard time with the 30 character limit on performance titles and it's becoming a huge issue at our organization. (Next season's performance of Alice Through the Looking Glass is becoming Alice Through the LookingGlass) I'm wondering if there are other organizations that deal with this same issue and what you've done to get around the problem. It seems every season we have at least one performance title longer than 30 characters and our Director's Office is rightfully getting annoyed with having to short form production names.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
We also break up longer titles into two rows and use two of the ticket text fields in production elements. We have a ‘standard’ ticket design and a ‘long title’ design. If the title still won’t fit or we need to include other info, we will create a custom design specifically for that show and use a smaller font size for the show title text.
Then I created a cheat sheet at my desk for which show has which ticket design for applying new price types throughout the season.
Maryke
From: Tessitura Ticketing Forum [mailto:forums-ticketing@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Heather KraftSent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 2:39 PMTo: Maryke VanBeuzekomSubject: Re: [Tessitura Ticketing Forum] Performance Titles longer than 30 characters
We are similar to Jared - we've reserved a line in the ticket text on the performance (one of the last lines) that is our 'alternate title'. If that is filled out our tickets use that, if it isn't, it uses the standard title. This works for the most part unless we are doing something like The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Then all bets are off and we actually have a special 'long title' ticket design we attach to that production.
- Heather
From: Jared Mollenkopf <bounce-jaredmollenkopf6141@tessituranetwork.com>Sent: 9/12/2013 1:59:21 PM
We break up the long titles into two rows and enter the second row of information in a Ticket Text field in Production Elements.
We then have a special ticket design for that show which would print the Ticket Text field below the Performance Description.
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