\chapter{Badging and Ticket Management}

\section{Badging Dashboard}
Top level page with links to all related functions.

\section{Tabling}
This utility is used to arrange meal plates at tables within each room where meals will be served. You must assign a table count and a global plate count which assigns that number of plates to each table. Note that it is possible to alter the plate limit on a table on an individual level when necessary.

\subsection{Tabling Procedure}
There is a hierarchy as follows:

Meal > Room > Tables

A meal is an record in the Events table and is tied to a sellable Product in the Products table (and belong to a category). For example, the Banquet Category contains two meal types, Regular and Vegetarian. The meal types are products which are sold on the Registration page. Each of these products belong to the Event "Banquet". This allows the Banquet to have all the meal types included for tabling. 

A Room is where the meal is held. It contains tables and each table will contain a set number of plates. The Event record contains values for the room's table count and the default plate count per table. 

Once you have configured the room, you are ready to assign attendees purchased meals (aka plates) to the tables. An attendee has purchased one or many meals and may have their plates assigned to one or many tables depending on how many they purchased and per any special seating requests by the attendee.

\subsubsection{How to create a room}

\begin{enumerate}
    \item Navigate to Badging/Ticketing Management > Tabling
    \item Click the name of the meal to which you will be working (e.g. Luncheon Event Details)
    \item Review the meal details, paying particular attention to Table count and Default plate count
    \item If all looks good, then click on the blue CREATE ROOM button. This will return all the tables with the global plate count assigned to each table.
    \item Scroll to the bottom and click the blue SAVE button
    \item You now have a new room, ready to assign plates
\end{enumerate}


\subsubsection{How to assign plates to tables once the room has been created}

\begin{enumerate}
    \item Navigate to Badging/Ticketing Management > Tabling
    \item Click the name of the meal to which you will be working (e.g. Luncheon Event Details)
    \item Review the meal details, paying particular attention to Table count and Default plate count
    \item Click the green TABLE STRUCTURE button
    \item Locate the table to which you want to add plates 
    \item Click the blue VIEW button to see the table view. 
        \begin{itemize}
            \item Here you may click the EDIT button to change the plate count for this table if desired
            \item You can also change the name of the table and add a description
        \end{itemize}
    \item Click the blue ASSIGN button on first available table (do not skip tables)
    \item From the Users dropdown list, select the name of the person you want to assign
        \begin{itemize}
            \item Note the number next to their name. This is the available plates for that user
        \end{itemize}
    \item From the Plate Count dropdown, select the number of plates to assign to the user
        \begin{itemize}
            \item Do not select a number higher than the available plates for that user
        \end{itemize}
    \item Click the blue SAVE button 
    \item Review the assignments just made
    \item When satisfied, click the Dining Table Structure Detail link in the breadcrumbs menu to return to the room level view
    \item Repeat steps 5-12 until all attendees plates have been assigned to tables.
\end{enumerate}


\section{Ticketing Reports}
This is a link to the regular reporting dashboard, added for convenience purposes.