Form Designer

Forms are used to collect extended marketing information at Time of Sale or on a manual basis via Other Items.

For Form information to be collected the Collecting Marketing Information MUST be selected in \\Setup\Options\Terminal Options\Box Office and one of the following methods must be used:

Allocate a Form to a specific Ticket Price Category. This will always be shown for any linked Sessions regardless of any other option.

Allocate a Global Form that applies to ALL SALES

If a GLOBAL Form has NOT been assigned then the standard Postcode collection will be applied to each sale.

Note:

Manual Forms can be entered at ANYTIME in addition to the ABOVE via Other Items

Name

The name of form.

HO Code

If Head Office is activated then a unique code assigned by Head Office, otherwise leave blank.

Category

This should be set to TICKETS for use when collecting marketing information.

List of Questions

Field        

Unique name for the question (alphanumeric, no spaces).

Order

The order the questions will appear.

Type

The type of question to be asked. These are currently:

Text – single line of text

Multi-line - unlimited lines of text

Yes/No - True/False

List - a drop-down list of choices

Choice - multiple choice

Date - a date selection field

Number (+/-) - integer number

Number (+) - positive integer number

Float - floating point value eg. 5.505

Available

Determines if this field will be available for selection.

Prompt

The text to show for the question. If the Type is either List or Choice then the list of choices that are displayed follow the text separated by a ';'.

for example:

Category;Live Theatre;Dancing;Ballet;Comedy

Category is the text and Live Theatre, Dancing, Ballet, Comedy are the available choices for the user to select.

To add a new a question change the value of Field and press Add/Save Field.