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The Other tab contains details on miscellaneous information with Theatre Manager.

 

Data Management
Keep Transactions after posting to the G/L Checking this box causes some non-financial transactions to be kept after posting to the GL. Unchecking it allows those transactions to be purged after a period of time
Otherwise Purge After Determine the number of days to keep the non-posting transaction records before purging them.

Update Management
Check for Updates Daily When this box is checked, your theatre Manager system will check on a daily basis to see if there is a newer version available. This should be done for PCI compliance by enabling the update checking port for this. No download will happen, it is a notification only.
Automatically TM Minor Updates When enabled
  • TM will automatically pull down and update itself with newer versions. This is done via a secure connection (using TLS 1.2) to our update servers
  • Versions that cross any release boundary that require new database fields for new features will download only after the TM server has added the new fields into the database.
  • Listeners restart themselves after updating. Users at workstations are reminded every four hours that the release is waiting for them if they ready to install it. On start up of TM, a workstation will be automatically updated.

Replication Monitoring
Enable database replication monitoring Some sites have specifically set up live streaming database replication - in order to have a failover database with the most current information, should the machine hosting it fail.

Replication is done automatically for cloud venues. Self service venues who wish this feature must set it up and maintain it themselves.

Enabling this flag will cause Theatre Manager server to monitor the replication process and update the 'last verify' date. This can be used through the API to find out if monitoring is working. if this option is

  • not checked - the API will return disabled
  • checked - the API will return
    • ok - if the last replication time check is within a recent time period
    • yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss+00:00 - a full ISO8601 timestamp (with timezone) representing the last time that replication was verified as running. This is the same date that is shown below.
    • None - if replication is not enabled and running for the database
Last Verify The date and time that the last replication verification occurred successfully.

Cache Settings
Enable cache for Theatre Manager Desktop Theatre Manager tries to optimize how it reads data from the database and will avoid reaching out to get some data in a number of cases. If you are having trouble with messages saying record not found, when it is really there, you can disable most of the cache.

Uncheck Enable cache for Theatre Manager Desktop to stop the cache being used for the desktop. It will apply to all workstations. You can specify mac platform and windows platforms independently.

Enable cache for web sales (Classic Listener) Uncheck Enable cache for web sales (Classic Listener) to stop the cache being used in the classic listeners. They have very little need for caching, so you may want to uncheck this if you have problems with some carts checking out a ticket.

You can specify mac platform and windows platforms independently.

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