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House capacity

General

In most Running Dinner cases each House caters one Course (possibly in addition to hosting a Party or Reception - see step 5), and each House can seat as many Participants (including Hosts) as required - this is therefore the default for the Planner. That said, this screen give the user control over how many Courses a House is willing to cater, and how many Participants (including Hosts) it can accomodate. The Planner will take this information into account when assigning Houses to Courses, and Participants to Tables.


In this screen the user can define the ‘capacities’ for each House. There are 2 ways of inputting this data:

  • by House
  • as CSV



The information banner

As with all screens, a context-dependent information banner is located at the top of the screen. It features a “back to previous screen” button on the left, and a button for context-dependent help on the right

Input methods

By House

This screen can be used to override the default values for maximum number of Courses a House is willing to cater, and how many Participants (including Hosts) it can set. Furthermore, this screen offers buttons ( Delete Forever ) to delete a House from the database.

As CSV

CSV - the interface

Arguably the easiest way of inputting Special Relatons into the system is by way of the MyPlanner section on the website. To make use of this, the user needs to create and login to an account on www.running-dinner-planner.com, and  copy-paste data from, for example, Excel into the web interface. See also the CSV tutorial on the Tutorials page. That data can subsequently be downloaded from MyPlanner with the click of the cloud ( Cloud Queue ) button. 


The format the data needs to have is that of a Comma-Separated-Value (CSV) list, and can be inspected in the CSV text field. One line should contain:


    ShortAddress, MaxNrGuests, MaxNrCourses


Notes: 

  • ShortAddress: unique short address of house (complete address also allowed)
  • MaxNrGuests: number of Persons (3<->n) a House can accommodate, with n the total number of Persons
  • MaxNrCourses: number of Courses (1<->n) the House is willing to serve, with n the total number of Courses


  • Note 1: Not all Houses have to be listed
  • Note 2: Houses can appear in random order
  • Note 3: A single line can only hold data on a single House

CSV - downloading data from the cloud

In MyPlanner data can be stored for all the Steps involved in planning a Running Dinner. While, for each Step, the relevant data can be loaded on its own, the CSV functionality also allows for importing data for more than just 1 Step into the Planner. That is to say: upon pressing the cloud button ( Cloud Queue ), the App retrieves all the data from MyPlanner and allows the user to choose which data to load. Note that it is not enough to download, paste, or manually change the content of the textfield: it will only be made available to the Planner by pressing the Add ( Square Plus ) or Apply button. The App will then report how much of the data could be interpreted and was added to the system. 

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