We are a museum that offers guided tours. We are just about to start using packages to group together tours and museum admission, but I'm wondering if there is a way (or if one is coming in V16) to bulk edit packages after they have been created. I don't see anything in Season Manager, but it seems like for museums this would be a useful feature. For example, we have some permanent tours that are offered every day, but we also offer seasonal tours and tours related to specific exhibitions. Unfortunately, I don't have the details on all of these at the start of the FY (which is what we use for seasons), so I can't build out the whole year's worth of all tours. I'd prefer to create our basic packages with our permanent tours for the whole year and then add in the others as they come. Am I correct in that currently this would mean going in to each day's package and manually adding the new performance group(s)? I realize that performing arts groups wouldn't have this need, but for those of us with daily admission it seems like it would be really useful.
Thanks!
AnneThe Historic New Orleans Collection
I WISH there was a way to bulk edit; however, I will echo what others have said and there isn't. We package things up here at the Museum exactly like this (and in fact have multiple packages per day) and we have had to put in a business rule that we don't build certain packages until certain things are confirmed like specialty tours. So for example, our rule is that everything gets built and live at least by the 1st of the month of the month prior to the visit dates...IE: January 1st for everything in February. This way, everyone knows that, if we want something special, it needs to be scheduled and ready to go at least a couple weeks before then. Then, once everything is confirmed, we build out the performances, perf groups, and packages. It works quite well...but, a mass package edit tool would be super super helpful!!!!