Collecting Meal Choices and Seating Preferences
For your auction, you may need to add fields on your ticket forms for meal choices and/or ticket holder seating preferences. These choices are available as pre-programmed custom fields.
To add a pre-programmed field (Meal Choice used to illustrate):
Go to Admin > Site Settings > Customize Your Site > Custom Fields.
Once field group is created, preview and/or edit field:
Edit Field elements:
1. Lead in for the person entering the data.
2. What type of form is needed - list creates a dropdown menu,
3. Required: Yes or No?
4. Show on Receipt? Note: Only buyer's data is displayed on receipts.
5. Edit choices to appear in dropdown menu.
6. Save.
Once saved, click on the Preview Look and Feel link to see how the field will appear on the guest info form and display on guest records.
Preview Appearance
1. Preview Collection form - what guests will see on their online ticket sales form.
2. Preview Collected info - how data will display on Guest/user record.
To view and report the data collected in custom fields:
Go to Tickets > Customize > Select Custom Fields to Show > Save to add columns to display your custom data on your ticket page. Note: Custom fields are now sortable on your data pages (click on the desired column header to sort the page by that column).
Note: The customize screen view selections you make will only affect the display on your device. Your selections are cached by the browser you are using and will clear each time your browser clears the cache. This varies, but the default settings for most browsers will retain your selections until you log out.