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To sell reserved seats, the system needs to know your venue. In this episode we add

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a venue, draw its seat map over a picture of the room, and publish it.

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In the menu, under Events, choose Venues and seat maps.

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A venue is a place where you hold events: a theatre, a hall, a classroom. Our

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Lighthouse Playhouse is already here, with its address and its time zone.

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To add another, press New venue.

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Give the venue a name and, if you like, an address. We call ours Riverside Hall.

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Choose the store the venue belongs to: Main Street. The time zone is suggested from

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the store, and every performance time is read at the venue's own clock. Press Create

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venue.

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The venue page shows its details and its seat maps. A seat map is a picture of the

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room with every seat placed over it. Press New seat map, and give it a name.

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Press Create, and the seat map editor opens, filling the window.

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First, the picture. Press Upload picture and choose a picture of your room, a floor

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plan or a photograph. It is made smaller on your own computer, and the details a

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camera adds are removed, before it is uploaded.

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Next, the zones. A zone is a group of seats that cost the same, such as the stalls,

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or the balcony. Press Add a zone, give it a short code and a name, and press Add

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zone.

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Add a second zone in the same way, for the balcony.

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To place seats, choose the row tool, the third button in the toolbar. On the right,

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say which section and row the new seats are, and how many seats the row has. We

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choose row A of the stalls, with ten seats.

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Then drag along the picture, from where the first seat goes to where the last one

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goes. The seats are spread evenly along the line, and numbered one to ten.

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The next row is ready with the next letter. Drag a second row below the first.

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The balcony is a different zone. Choose Balcony here, name its section and row, and

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drag one row over the balcony.

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A standing area has no numbered seats, only a number of places. Add another zone,

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and choose Standing area. We allow forty places.

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Now click the corners of the area on the picture, and press Enter to finish. It is

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drawn in the zone's colour, with its name and how many places it has.

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Click a seat to pick it. The panel shows what you can change: its number, its zone,

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its angle, and whether it is a wheelchair space or a companion seat.

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Press Save. The editor checks the map first, and lists anything the server would

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refuse, such as two seats with the same label.

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When the map is right, press Publish. Publishing freezes its structure: seats and

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zones can no longer be added or removed, though names, colours and positions can

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still change.

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The seat map is published, and performances can use it. Go back to the venue with

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the arrow: the seat map is listed with its seats and zones.

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In the next episode, we create an event at this venue, give it a performance, set

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the prices, and put it on sale.