Fusion Ticket News - April 2011

Hello [FIRSTNAME],

Welcome to the latest edition of the Fusion Ticket newsletter. We've come a long way since PhpMyTicket and we hope Fusion Ticket has been a part of your successful event planning. If you haven't been to the Fusion Ticket site in awhile here is what we've been up to.

While Beta 6 included many new features our members requested they invariably cause problems within the rest of the program. We have addressed these and now have patches to fix most of these issues. The last patch 6.3 was released in November. A further patch 6.4 will now released for our VIP donors. Details of the new features and bug fixes are given later in this Newsletter

Fixes are always included in future, full release versions, at no charge. However, if you can not wait they are available as patches.

We will make, individual patch available, to the general public for a donation of $12.50 on our download section.

Previous versions of Fusion Ticket are available for download, free of charge, from the Downloads section of the Fusion Ticket website.

As announced in a previous edition of the Newsletter, our associated Company, Fusion Ticket Solutions, is to launch a hosted service for users of the Fusion Ticket software. This Service is aimed at those who may not have the time or administrative skills to host their own site.

The need to concentrate on releasing the new patch to Beta 6.0 has impacted on the completion of the Administrative software and hence delayed the formal launch of the Service. However we are now able to manually set-up hosting for anyone who may wish to take advantage of the Service in advance of the formal launch.

Pricing is not yet finally decided but please note that, in line with the objectives of Fusion Ticket, there will be extremely advantageous terms for Amateur Societies and Charities, with completely free hosting in some circumstances.

If you are a Commercial User then the charges will be extremely competitive compared with other options for a comprehensive hosted on-line Box Office Ticketing System.

Please contact Niels or Mike for details.

• New Colour picker added (thanks to Carlitto)
• MyCart classes rewritten to get  more maintainable code that allows easier extension.
• Access Denied checking revised. The previous code gave Access Denied when not needed, for example, when the IP address of the patron changed.
• Ticket discounts can now be set for a single category only
• Provided a a new way of selecting the price category in the webshop, removing the combobox with all the categories,
• Added support for direct printing within the POS.

• BUG: There is a big issue found with the seat prices together with a discount, in some case the amount is rounded.

• Fixed issue with saving wrong placemap in subevents
• Removed the possibility to delete currently used discounts
• Corrected some search issues.
• Allow change to the eventgroup after event is created.
• Fixed problem previewing pdf templates
• Reinserted  the event selection for Ticket takers
• Fixed issue causing the event list not to be shown in the ticket taker section.
• Main event isnow  hidden when there are no sub-events to be shown.
• Fixed problem in the POS whereby using the "CANCEL ORDER" did not free the seats.
• Fixed problems with displaying the reports.

• Reserving Seats in POS results in unnecessary email with link to Webshop
• Unable to define more than 793 seats in any single Cat and Zone in the Seat Chart Parts editor.

Important installation change
In the last releases we changed the mysql database engine from MyISAM to InnoDB. From time to time we saw that people tried to install Fusion Ticket on a server where the InnoDB engine was not installed. From now on the installer checks of InnoDB is available or not and stops the installation until it is installed.

Slowly we are getting a stable version. We like to thank you all with reporting problems within Fusion Ticket and also those who support us by donating money. This gives us our drive to continue with creating next releases.

Like the current release, the next release will also be a release that is an amendment to make Fusion Ticket more usable and stable for you and your users. We have a list of tasks setup that we want to do for the next release. Look here for the list.

As you can see there are still an lot of issue that need to be fixed before we think a stable release can be made. So there will be a next beta release.

We hope you will help us find the last bugs that we did not find ourselves.

Although we try to maintain this software for as little as possible, we have working lives and other items that need doing. Your donations allow us to spend more time supporting members, developing plug-ins and additional features, instead of the bare minimum. A donation, of any amount, helps get us toward the next release and our ultimate goal.

Any member who donates over $50 per release (a feature version release), will receive Premiere status. Premiere members receive access to private sections of Fusion Ticket where mid version bug fixes, patches, and pre-release versions are available free of charge. In addition Premiere members receive enhanced priority support.

When making donations please add your Fusion Ticket login ID so credit can be given where credit is due.

Of course! If you have good PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript or MySQL knowledge you'll be very welcome to help.

If programming is not your strong suit then help other users with the software, as everyone's skills differ. Any time the programmers spend explaining something is time spent away from bug fixing or feature improvements.

You may also spend time testing for bugs, reporting them in detail, and work with the programmers, on the IRC, to correct them.

Meanwhile, making suggestions to improve usability and functionality are always welcome.

If you really want to help then do not remove or change the copyright notice at the bottom of the webshop, which is also the link to our site, because you then deprive the project of future members and resources. Doing so will stop us supporting you when you are need help.

If you must remove the copyright, for any reason, please contact us to purchase the proper license.

Thank you for your help and support on behalf of Chris, Niels, Lou, Mike and all those who have contributed to the success of Fusion Ticket.

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