Our Ticket Office has been using the same performance codes that were carried over from Artsoft. Artsoft would sort shows by alphabet so they would group series performance codes by letter, which is is not intuitive for the ticket office staff and patrons to understand. Chamber Series performance codes are: 24RA, 24RB, 24RC our Piano series are 24PA, 24PB, 24PC. It does not tell you the date or information about the performance to help our staff decipher what show is.
We have using the same performance code for 15 years and we are wondering if changing the structure would ruin anything? Would it affect any reports? Will it break anything? Has anyone in this group gone through this change and can share their experiences? We want to know the pros and cons of changing the structure for next season.
Second what John said, and from personal experience we have changed performance code structure at least once while I was here and didn't have any problems. You could always go into Test and re-code a season that already is built and see if any reports break.
agreed! This is exactly what Test is for. My only problem after restructuring perf codes is that I had been so used to typing in the old structure to find something, and then realizing "oh... yeah, use new code, oops!" So there will be a little bit of that, but no *real* problems. (also, I remember back when I transitioned from Artsoft to Tessitura many, many, many years ago- what a trip!)