Version 7.29.04

This version contains performance improvement in finding events, web sales, subscriptions and selling tickets.

There have also been the usual number of enhancements and fixes in response to user requests.

Version 7.27 • Updates

Key changes:

There are no mandatory web change for this version.

Preparing for the Update

Before upgrade	Read the release notes for any version prior and follow the directions, Stop web sales and close all shopping carts. 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 If making changes to the web pages, make a backup of the web pages before changing any pages.
After upgrade	None
Optional Steps	None
Time Required	A short time if you are version 7.19 or later Between 1 and 5 hours, depending on the number of patron records in order to upgrade from versions 7.16

7.29.04 Changes & Enhancements (May 22)

Theatre Maps are now cached locally in theatre manager instead of being read - for a performance boost on slow networks or using remote access
Implement ability to waive price upgrades during an exchange. Users will see a dialog asking what they want to do on with different priced tickets on an upgrade.
Added setting in sales promotions to allow a promotion to be used in advance of sales and/or on day of sale of performance. This works for box office and web sales
Some updates to functions in the plug-in modules to support more business scenarios should customers require plugins
Fixed security for allowing a donation at time of ticket sale
Fixed security for allowing a membership at time of ticket sale

Fixed issue where the names in reports, mail lists and criteria sometimes displayed '&' in them and were not substituted
When reading records for a report - indicate the total number of records that are being processed in the progress bar.
Donation smmary report - Expanded the fields in the donation summary reports to allow $X,XXX,XXX.XX values.
Daily Sales Reports
- Fixed an issue where a column was showing up in the wrong place.
- Altered the default behaviour of some sorts to indlude the Fee Description
Patron Web Activity report - now uses the database fields associated with the primary address and will work.
Patron Invoices - now saves the options selected for the pass/gift certificate tab.

Added a feature to play & dates to allow printing of only the ticket face for the event. There are now 4 options: not print, print ticket face on event only, print ticket face on promotion only and print both.

Improved performance finding list of events on the web that was adversely affected by fixing of alternate venue display issues in prior version.
Recalculate the shopping cart after user adds donation or gift certificate online - if plug ins are involved in changing cart values automatically. This does not affect any site that does not use custom plug-ins.
Implement the seat limits on a web sale for a per event cap. The per - performance limit was implemented. Per event was not.
Implemented ability to retrieve web pages for the listener from an alternate server. The concept is that we may implement closer integration with tools like Drupal or Joomla in the future to support the client managing their own content through a common CMS (Content Management System). The goal in the future is to support closer integration of Theater Manager web pages and the Venue's main web pages.
Patrons addresses created on the web now can be edited at the box office

Upgrade encryption for user passwords from DES to 3DES
Created a function so a Venue can change the encryption key on their credit cards at any time via a button in System Preferences. This is a required feature of PABP compliance. If you choose to re-encrypt your database, TM will generate a random 40 character key composed of a mixture of uppercase, lower case, numbers and special characters .. and then re-encrypt the cards. This feature means that the credit card encryption keys:
- can be changed at any time by the user if they suspect any breach of security
- should be changed at least annually (TM now reminds you to change the encryption key after the old one has been in use for 11 months or more).

Make sure that system letters and emails cannot be duplicated in the letter/notes tab. Only user created letters and notes can now be duplicated.
Set up a default security setting for each note type and apply that during creation of the note. It is possible for users to create notes that are secure to their groups - and/or to create notes that are secure to others after creation.
Fixed an issue where a custom change to the second letter in the merge process was not being saved. Revised the merge process to ensure custom changes will stick.

Fix an error in calculating the End Of Day balance if there were no receivables and only 'reservation only' sales. Theatre Manager now reports those correctly and allows EOD to complete.

Improved performance of the 'Manage favourite seats' season subscription module considerably when there are large numbers of people in a subscription package.
Fixed a problem in subscription sales where sales promotions marked as available on the internet AND the box office were not showing up in the box office.

Added ability to search by custom marketing fields 1 through 4 on the quick find feature - in addition to searching by patron number.
Possibly fixed random crashes that were observed on some PC's. The issue was null values returned from checking the patron's balance to display on the main window - the database access methods were amended to deal with this in more cases. (Note: Mac's were not affected by this issue).
- Revise method for calculating the usage count of a credit card to be more accurate.
- Clear the previous error message when trying to determine if an IP address is available and the user was using DNS to resolve the address instead of a straight IP address.
Make sure that benefits for a donation campaign cannot be entered if there is no account number - to prevent missing accounts during EOD posting.