I deal a lot with clients who buy blocks of seats. A question that's always asked prior to attending the show is, "can you tell us exactly where our seats are?"
I'm familiar with our theatres, so I know how to read the Seating Book. I know what seat D-15 means, or what "Floor Right" means, for example, but this means very little to the clients.
What I need is an easy-to-read seating map. (I've been drawing maps in Paint, which is a very laborious process, especially if there are any last-minute ticketing changes.)
I'm a novice Tessitura user...but colleagues say they don't know of any report that shows a tidy, comprehensive, map that I could send to a client that represents where his/her block of seats is located. I can't believe that no such report exists! I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on this for me?
Thanks so much!
For a quick fix, and this is assuming you are on Windows 7 and have a color printer, you could load the order, hop into the seating map, and use the snipping tool. The seats for the order will be dark green as opposed to the red. Not a great fix, but a work around for now...
Hi
We at Birmingham Hippodrome created our report using Ryan Creps' SSRS Seat Map (available in, I think, the 2010 conference materials archive). Its a report version that looks identical to the Seat Map in Tessitura that we removed all the colours and formatting. We then flag any seat within a group booking with an image (a nice tidy check box).
It took me a couple of hours to get it working for our needs but now our Group Sales team love it, they send one out with most bookings.
If you would like to find out a little more feel free to get in touch with me (marksteel@birminghamhippodrome.com).
Thanks
Mark