Functionality

• We've improved the film programming experience for exhibitors operating in multiple countries or regions. If the countries or regions you're operating in start their film weeks on different days, you'll benefit from the following enhancements:

  • The Circuit Planning page now displays the site-level week start day where appropriate
  • Bulk actions now account for your various sites' film-week start days
  • You can filter sites by film-week start day on the Booking Chart and Circuit Planning action pages
  • When creating and updating holdovers, you can now view combined figures for the last film-week's start day and weekend

• The Refresh price cards button now has two options: Suggest price cards and Refresh price cards. Use the suggest option to update session price cards to Vista's best suggestions.

• Circuit Planning continues to function as expected when you send a holdover for a week outside of the weeks visible in Circuit Planning.

Appearance

• The quick access bar no longer overlaps the last cinema row in Showtime Manager when sessions are selected in quick succession.

• The film poster now appears as expected on the Film overview page.

• Circuit Planning is no longer highlighted on the navigation pane when viewing Holdover or Showtime Manager pages.

Data Integrity

• Zeros variances now appear as expected in Film Hire Audit report when Show zero variances is selected.

• Attributes are no longer duplicated in the Films Without Contract Assigned report.

• Database validation issues no longer prevent you from importing a new film from the release schedule tab in Film Manager.

• We've fixed an issue that meant films couldn't be imported from MovieXChange due to an unexpected field in the MovieXchange data.

• Sessions with sold tickets are now correctly sent to the Head Office database after sessions are swapped and seats reallocated.

Functionality

• Screen mappings now load correctly in the select screens step when using Remember these screen mappings in Bulk Copy in Showtime Manager.

• Refresh price cards now updates price cards to the new version as expected, even when a price card has a future version that is effective from a previous showtime manager week.

• Saving a session in Showtime Manager with no sales channels selected no longer results in an error, and the session can now be saved to Head Office as expected.

• The Future Plan Bulk Copy wizard now respects site-specific and new-release period attributes when copying film bookings.

• The Film Hire Payment form no longer misses records when a contract adjustment had been done and the form is filtered by status.

• Removing an attribute from multiple selected sessions in Showtime Manager no consistently works as expected. Previously, issues could occur when using the Session properties panel to remove an attribute defined on some, but not all, of the selected sessions.

• The update button on the movieXchange mapping form on the release schedule page is now unavailable until all required fields are completed. This change prevents users from clicking update before all required fields had values, an action that caused the film import to fail.

• The Future Planning button no longer appears on the Holdover page in Screen Mode because the Future Planning page is not supported in Screen Mode.

• Showtime Manager users can now select or edit the cinema operator in a session's properties, even when the system setting LockCinemaOnSession is set to No.

• Showtime Manager shortcut keys are now ignored while users are typing in the search bar of the price cards dropdown in the quick access bar.

• The Showtime Manager film palette is no longer open by default.

• Daylight saving time no longer prevents the vertical bar in Showtime Manager from indicating the correct time.

• The occupancy tab in the Historic Insights panel in Showtime Manager now shows total admits vs total seats, and average percentage data is calculated correctly.

• When doing a Fill or Copy Last Week on the Film Manager Holdover page using legacy bookings, and when there are no bookings in the Playing section, users no longer need to click save twice before the page saved.

• Navigating to the Dashboard from Circuit Planning, Holdover or Future Planning no longer resets the date to All Sites. Instead the system respects any previous Planning Group option selection.

• We've fixed an issue that sometimes resulted in an error message when users changed the planning group in Holdover in Film Manager.

• To let users know about legacy booking data for a planning week in Holdover, notifications now appear in Playing, Advanced Screening, Other Content, and Unassigned.

• Users can no longer change data in Future Planning when another user has already opened a week with legacy booking data.

• Users can now create new distribution terms when using Adjust Contract in Film Hire Payment.

• The Holdover page now loads correctly and does not cause console errors.

• When creating a new booking in Corporate Bookings, search results for the Film field now include  only films with an active status.

• Where available, generated film forecasts are now displayed on the booking chart.

• Film Manager's Booking Chart now loads sites correctly, loading three sites per page.

• Showtime Manager now retains existing information in the External Code field when a session is saved.

• When you select Showtime Manager from the menu, the menu item is highlighted correctly.

• Default start date set for new bookings created in Booking Chart will now be consistent with other places in Film Manager.

• Sessions for the week are correctly saved in the Head Office database when changing a regular film to a marathon film.

• We added the new system setting BookingChartSitePaginationLimit to set the number of sites loaded per page in Booking Chart.

• We've fixed a Showtime Manager issue that prevented sessions from being added or edited when a site's Service Framework service was older than version 5.0.12.

• Showtime Manager correctly saves sessions even when there is a session identification conflict with Head Office.

• On the Booking Chart, when the DisplayCodeForCinemaAndSite system setting is set to "No", sites are now ordered alphabetically, rather than by site code.

Localisation

• Translations are now correct throughout the seat swap flow in Showtime Manager.

Security

• Read-only users can now access Showtime manager without seeing a permission-related error.

Stability

• We fixed an issue that could result in a database connection issue while starting the MasterData service.

Usability

• We've enhanced session swap messaging to provide clear guidance to users on updates in session status and seat swap requirements.

• When switching planning groups on the Film Manager Dashboard, the 'Alternate Start Day' column now appears correctly in the Top Engagements and Top Performing Sites dashboards.

Appearance

• The film poster now appears correctly on the Film overview page.

• Circuit Planning is no longer highlighted on the navigation pane when viewing Holdover or Showtime Manager pages.

Data Integrity

• We've fixed an issue that prevented films being imported from MovieXChange.

• Sessions with sold tickets are now correctly sent to the Head Office database after sessions are swapped and seats reallocated.

Functionality

• Sessions are now properly saved to Head Office when you change a session's film to a marathon.

• We added the new system setting BookingChartSitePaginationLimit to set the number of sites loaded per page in Booking Chart.

• When scrolling through the Booking Chart site list, reaching the end of the list now loads the next page.

• Showtime Manager's vertical time bar now updates immediately to reflect daylight savings time changes.

• It's now possible to create new distribution terms when using Adjust Contract in Film Hire Payment.

• Inactive films are no longer offered in film search results when creating corporate bookings.

• The Holdover page now loads with the correct site info when a user changes the site on the Future Planning page.

• Where available, generated film forecasts are now displayed on the booking chart.

• Film Manager's Booking Chart now loads sites correctly, loading 3 sites per page.

• Showtime Manager now retains existing information in the External Code field when a session is saved.

• When you select Showtime Manager from the menu in Film Manager, the menu item is highlighted correctly.

Security

• Read-only users can now access Showtime manager without seeing a permission-related error.