Tables And Seating
The Auctria platform provides a limited Tables And Seating feature set, often used with in-person events to manage Tables and Seating assignments.
Tables
From the main event dashboard, click through the Participants entry in the left sidebar and then the Tables entry under the Participants Dashboard sidebar actions menu to get to the Tables functions.
This will open the Tables page.
Tables Page
Add Table
The Add Table button allows you to manually add a table to your event. Clicking through the Add Table button will open the Add Table page to create a new table.
Add New Table
You can enter the appropriate information to identify your new Table as needed.
- Table
- The Table# will be assigned automatically starting at
1. - Adding additional tables will increase this value by
1. - You can also hand-craft the Table# values for easier identification.
- The Table# will appear in check-in views.
- You can use the Description of the Table to identify it to yourself or your guests. You can print this information
- The Seating value is the seats assigned to this Table.
- The Table# will be assigned automatically starting at
- Notes
- You can use the Notes text box to make internal notes about the specific Table for the organizers. These are not printable.
After entering the appropriate information and clicking the Save Table button under the sidebar actions menu, the system will return you to the Add Table page.
Clicking through the Back to Tables action or starting from the main Event Dashboard, you can reach the Tables dashboard, which now shows your existing tables.
Tables can be created anytime; guests need not have registered for the event or have any specific ticket sales to account for before adding appropriately sized tables.
Modify Table
To Modify A Table, click on the "pencil" icon at the far right of a row in the table list. This will open the Table Details page for the specific Table, where you can change the information you are using, such as the number of seats assigned to the particular Table or even the table number.
Delete Table
This action is not reversible.
If you delete a table, you must re-add the Table AND re-seat any guests.
To Delete A Table, click on the X at the far right of the row in the table list. Alternatively, you can modify the Table and click on the sidebar menu Delete Table entry. Clicking either of these options will pop up a confirmation window.
Clicking Continue will complete the process, and clicking Cancel will close the pop-up and return you to the screen you were viewing.
See How To Assign Seating for information on adding your guests to their specific tables.
Seating Report
From the main Event Dashboard, click through Participants and then Tables under the participant dashboard's Actions sidebar menu to open the Tables page. Then, click through the Seating Report entry of its Actions sidebar menu.
This will open the Participant Seating list report displaying several rows equal to the total number of Guests seated.
This report can also be found from the main Event Dashboard by clicking through Reports Participant Seating Assignments.
Back to Participants
Clicking this entry returns you to the Participants Dashboard page. See Participant Dashboard for more information.
Last reviewed: July 2024