Version 6.61.02

This is an enhancement release for Theatre Manager.

We are adding some features to the web sales module allow selling of season subscriptions via the internet, allow a patron to display their future tickets for upcoming events, and to use the web listener to handle gate control via a web page or special wireless palm devices.

Version 6.60 • Updates

Released Mar. 28, 2005

Key changes:

Bug fix for merging patrons
added features to web pages

Note: Read prior release notes for any mandatory web pages changes. There are some mandatory changes for this version..

We suggest reading the prior release notes completely - especially if you are not at version 6.60.

Theatre Manager will

The user will need to

Before upgrade	if upgrading from a version before 6.48, read version 6.48 release notes Complete your end of day. Deposit all funds, create all sales entries and post to the GL. Verify the database using data utilities and ensure that everything is ok. Make a backup copy of the database.
After upgrade	None
Optional Steps	If you are using web pages, you may wish to edit the pages as suggested below.
Time Required	It may take a long time from version earlier than 6.60 (depends on number of transactiosn ans performance of the server) From any version 6.60, it will be fast (less than a minute)

Before upgrade

if upgrading from a version before 6.48, read version 6.48 release notes
Complete your end of day. Deposit all funds, create all sales entries and post to the GL.
Verify the database using data utilities and ensure that everything is ok.
Make a backup copy of the database.

After upgrade

None

Optional Steps

If you are using web pages, you may wish to edit the pages as suggested below.

Time Required

It may take a long time from version earlier than 6.60 (depends on number of transactiosn ans performance of the server)
From any version 6.60, it will be fast (less than a minute)

Web Sales

Subscriptions

Added the ability to indicate if a subscription package can be sold at the box office and/or the internet. This is in preparation for allowing subscriptions to be sold via the internet.

Fixed a bug in the ticket sales process (affects both single tickets and subscriptions) where selection of a number of events might cause one event to be deselected and not booked. This would occur only if the first event had some restrictions on available sales promotions and one of the remaining events had no restrictions on any promotions. If TM found an event with no restrictions, it automatically assumed that all promotions were not available for sale when the choice was really that they were all for sale.

Fixed an issue in the 'book season subscription' window to make sure that the current patron record is always set after using any of the buttons on the window. This problem was causing random messages like 'find patron before changing one'.

Added the ability to auto-hold all seats in a season package. This process is similar to auto-booking except that the seats are just held and no order is created for the patron. It is a very useful process to run prior to opening up seats for sale on the internet as single tickets.

Added a new subscription status code called 'Cancelled-Internet'. This is used to track subscriptions that were cancelled by direct action from the user using the web sales module. Note; this just marks the subscription as cancelled. It does not release the favourite seats as the user may choose to reinstate their package on the web as well. If a package is cancelled, then it needs to be cleaned up in the standard season package clan up process after all subscriptions have been processed.

Added a new menu item on the subscriptions sub-menu (Theatre Manager->Season Reservations->Release Subscriptions Cancelled via Internet...'. This feature finds all subscriptions that users have released over the internet and completely releases their subscription seats. This allows the patron to cancell his subscription (but not completely), and then reinstate it.... all up to the point where the subscription manager in the box office cleans up all internet cancelled subscriptions.

Updated the season subscriptions package renewal statistics report to show the count of subscriptions that are in the state of cancelled on the internet. These are only full cancelled if the 'Release Subscriptions Cancelled via Internet...' function described above is run.

Miscellaneous Changes

Fixed a bug in merge patrons that would cause the process to abort and not calculate patron annual statistics properly.

Updated the order detail window to show the tax codes for mail fees and ticket reprint fees

Changed the order rebuild process to get the new tax rates for order fees, mail fees, exchange fees, and ticket reprint fees IF that particular fee had never been charged for that order. For example, if order fees had been charged but mail fees had never been charged on the order, then if the order is rebuild, the tax rate for the order would not change, but the tax rate for the mail fee would be reset to the most current version in default data.