Hello Tessitura Web API gurus,
My org is redeveloping our website at the moment, and one of our goals is to pull in dates and times of Performances, even if there are no tickets available, and present them in a calendar.
An example of this would be a free exhibition. We still want the exhibition to show up in a calendar with Performances that do have tickets.
Another example of this would be an event that we do not provide ticketing for. We would still create Performances, but would use the TNEW Buy Tickets override Content field (or something similar) to provide the external link for customers.
The rationale behind this is to keep Tessitura as the single source of event information that is exposed to the public at some point.
Do any organisations operate like this? Or have you considered this and went down another path?
Cheers,
Nicholas Hudson-Ellis
Hi Nicholas
ACO put a variety of non-ticketed events up on the website through Tess - from education workshops to ABC-FM broadcasts of our concerts.
Eg on our Calendar page.
We use a mixture of perf keywords ( eg "Show in Event Lists"), content fields (eg venue details that substitute for the dummy-faclity details that we use for the perfs in tess), and config data on the website itself ( eg a switch to turn the 'Buy Tix" links off)
That's all with a bespoke website, of course - I don't know how easy that kind of customisation is in TNEW - but Steve G will be here for ANZTRUC this week, so that should be a good opportunity to chew his ear about it. ¿Si?
Ken
Hi Ken and Gloria,
Many thanks for taking the time to share your own snazzy implementations!
For these non-ticketed events that you pull into your website, do you need to set up MOS and Price Types knowing that they won't be used for ticketing? Or is the Performance simply setup with the Web Publish Dates and relevant Content fields?
Our new website in development will have a blend of TNEW powered ticketing, and a bespoke website calendar that shows TNEW ticketed events, and non-ticket events together.
Nicholas
You will have to set the Web MOS so it will be available but we don't add price types. If you don't want to create a season for these events, your web developer could create logic that changes BuyTix to MoreInfo anytime there isn't a price type for a perf.
Glad to help Nicholas!
Hi Nic - We've got a similar situation here - a calendar widget on our main page that pulls from Tessitura. It was built for us a while back, and we haven't really touched it. Originally it was pulling in things that were on sale using the single ticket MOS. The one tweak we made after having it for a bit was the MOS; we changed it so it looks at a specific MOS we made just for that widget. There are no permissions on the MOS and it's not tied to any price types, so we can manage what appears there separately from when things go on/off sale or even if things go on sale at all.
Brilliant, thanks again Gloria and Brian!
We've created a custom table (web_custom_calendar_event) to house this information. Description, URL link, colour, perf_dt are all housed in the table. We also use performances as well in some cases and set valid web publish dates, valid web MOS and some custom content (Tickets Required = False).
Michele