Sort Options

Set the sort options for the tickets. These options include:

Sort Tickets By Options to sort either by Patron Last Name or Postal Code, then Patron last Name. The latter can be useful if mailing susbcription tickets by postal code.
And then sort by
  • Date, Section/Row/Seat. This is useful for subscription printing.
  • Date, Seat Code. The Seat Code is defined in the Venue Map setup. To learn more about the Seat Code, click here
  • Section/Row/Seat, Date. This is useful for subscription printing.
  • Seat Code, Date. The Seat Code is defined in the Venue Map setup. To learn more about the Seat Code, click here

When complete, click the Done button.

This will close the Parameters window and reveal the Batch Ticket Printing window.

The type of a field (character, date, numeric) influences the order that the ticket comes out. Refer to the list of field types, especially the note about character fields and it may influence how you set some up.

Ticket Printing - Ticket Printing Sort Order

The Tickets will print according to sort order choices made in dialogs. The order is influence on the Sort Type of the variable.
  • Numeric and Date sort orders are relatively intuitive
  • Character sort order may need leading zero's in fields to have them sort in a way you expect. (Seat Code is one we are ofter asked about)

Character fields use Character Sorts which is not the same as numeric sort order.

Examples of seat code sort order

  • CA1, CA10, C11, CA2, CA20 are all in character sort order
  • CA01, CA02, CA03, CA09, CA10, CA11 are also in character sort order. Leading zeros to make them appear in numerical order
Field Name Sort Order Sort Type
Patron Last Name Ascending Character
Patron First Name Ascending Character
Patron Number Ascending Numeric
Performance Date Descending Date
Performance Time Descending Time
Performance Code Descending Character
Section Descending Character
Row Descending Character
Seat Descending Character
Seat Code Descending Character