Deep reference for all seating plan editor tooling, including drawing, labels, scoring, and object configuration.

Overview

The seating plan editor is the authoring workspace for building and maintaining reusable plan schemas.

This page focuses on creation and design tooling:

Drawing areas, blocks, rows, tables, and general admission areas
Configuring labels, metadata, and visual behavior
Managing object-level properties and plan-level settings
Running plan checks before save/export

Operational event workflows (assigning plans to events, event availability, event pricing allocation, holds at event level) are documented in Seated Events.

Editor Surface

Workspace area	What it is for
Top menu	Plan-level actions, edit commands, view controls, seat tools, and label tooling
Object menu (left)	Add/draw new plan objects (areas, blocks, tables, GA, text, shapes, icons)
Canvas	Draw, select, move, resize, reorder, and visually inspect the layout
Settings panel (right)	Configure selected objects and plan metadata (price bands, gates, stairs, stands, tags)
Plan information modal	Stats, duplicate label checks, preview generation, rendering version, area-wide maintenance actions

Top Menu Tools

Plan

Tool	What it does	Why/when to use it
Change plan settings	Opens the plan settings modal	Finalizing plan metadata (name, venue, completion)
Plan information	Opens detailed plan stats and checks	Validation and pre-save QA (counts, duplicates, preview)
Export	Exports the current plan	Sharing, backup, or moving plan data between environments
Editor performance mode	Simplifies block rendering detail until hover	Improves editor responsiveness in dense layouts
Background settings	Opens background color/image options	Aligning geometry to a venue map and improving editing readability

Edit

Tool	What it does	Why/when to use it
Duplicate (`Ctrl/Cmd + C`)	Duplicates current selection	Fast repetition of similar layout structures
& flip vertically / & flip horizontally	Mirrors selected object	Symmetry workflows (especially polygonal shapes, blocks, tables)
Delete (Backspace)	Removes selected object	Removing obsolete layout elements
Send to back / Send to front	Changes z-order layer position	Managing overlapping objects and labels
Select all (`Ctrl/Cmd + A`)	Selects all editable objects in context	Bulk move/reconfigure workflows
Draw selection	Starts polygon selection drawing	Precision multi-select across irregular seat geometry
Cancel drawing (`Esc`)	Cancels active draw/selection overlay	Exiting drawing mode quickly
Select seats / Select objects	Changes draw-selection targeting mode	Switch between fine seat-level edits and whole-object operations

View

Tool	What it does	Why/when to use it
Enter/Exit full screen (`F11` or `Ctrl+Cmd+F`)	Toggles editor full-screen mode	More canvas space for dense plans
Default size (`Ctrl/Cmd + 0`)	Resets zoom	Recovering from extreme zoom states
Zoom in / Zoom out (`Ctrl/Cmd + +/-`)	Changes zoom level	Precise editing or high-level review
Enable zooming help for customers	Enables zoom-assist overlay behavior	Shop usability, especially when seats are very small at entry zoom
Enable sticky grid	Snaps moved objects to nearest grid line	Cleaner spacing and alignment consistency
Show alignment guides	Shows alignment guides while moving objects	Faster visual alignment across blocks/labels/shapes

Seats

Tool	What it does	Why/when to use it
Hide selected seats	Marks selected seats as hidden	Temporarily or permanently removing saleable visibility
Unhide selected seats	Reverses hidden state for selection	Re-enabling seats in a section
Show deleted seats	Switches to deleted-seat selection mode	Reviewing and restoring previously deleted seats
Delete selected seats	Marks selected seats as deleted	Structural seat removals
Restore selected seats	Restores deleted seats (in delete mode)	Undoing seat removals
Set best seats	Adds focal point object (feature-gated)	Enabling best-available seat scoring
Show heatmap	Toggles score heatmap rendering	Visual QA for best-available distribution
View from seat settings	Opens 3D Digital Venue mapping modal (feature-gated)	Linking seats/areas to third-party view IDs
Grid spacing	Adjusts editing grid step (`gridStep` / `areaGridStep`)	Controlling drawing/snap granularity

The top-right seat counter displays current / max seats for the active

scope. The editor enforces hard seat/space limits and will disable creation

tools when the limit is reached.

Some teams call removed seats kills. In editor terms, this usually maps to

structural seat removal (Delete selected seats / **Restore selected

seats**). Event-level sale controls are documented in [Seated

Events](/core-platform/event-management/seated-events).

Hidden Vs Delete Seats

Use these two tools for different outcomes:

Option	Use it when	Key behavior
Hidden	You want seats out of sale/customer view but may need them back later	Seats stay in the plan structure and keep their labels; unhide is available later
Delete	You are making structural plan changes and want seats removed from the schema	Seats are marked as deleted, labels are removed, and restore requires delete mode

Deletion Limits And Guardrails

Attached-event limitation: once a plan has already been synced to events, existing synced seats cannot be deleted in the editor. Use Hidden instead for operational removals.
Capacity limitation: you cannot unhide or restore seats when the plan is already at its hard seat limit.
Mutual exclusivity: setting seats to hidden clears deleted state, and deleting seats clears hidden state.
Restore workflow: use Show deleted seats to select deleted seats before running Restore selected seats.

If your goal is event-level availability management (rather than changing plan structure), use event seat statuses in Seated Events.

Labels

Tool	What it does	Why/when to use it
Show table/row names in the shop plan	Toggles parent labels in rendered plan	Customer-facing wayfinding clarity
Show block/row labels in editor	Toggles object labels in editor only	Reducing visual noise during layout work
Show seat labels in editor	Toggles seat labels in editor only	Faster seat-level troubleshooting
Advanced options	Opens full label/tooltip configuration modal	Controlling auto-labeling behavior and tooltip payload
Font family	Sets editor/label font family	Readability and brand consistency

Label Advanced Options (modal)

Group	Tools
Tooltip settings	Toggle tooltip fields: price band, price, table, block, row, comment, stand, stair, gate, tag
Area settings	Toggle area details (for example, show price in shop)
Area labeling	Area prefix, definition source, label type
Block labeling	Block prefix, definition source, label type (including hidden)
Table labeling	Table prefix, label type
General admission labeling	GA prefix, definition source, label type
Excluded labels	Manage labels/numbers skipped by auto-generation
Recalculate labels	Rebuild labels when area label settings changed

Background Settings (modal)

Tool	What it does
Background colour	Transparent or custom color
Color picker + hex input	Fine color control
Background image upload	Imports a venue image for drawing reference
Adjust background image	Opens image positioning/adjustment flow

Supported upload types: jpeg, jpg, png, webp.

Canvas Tools

Selection Strip

The canvas includes a quick selection strip for:

Default select tool
Rectangle selection
Lasso (polygon) selection
Clear current selection

Guide Tools

The canvas edge controls can add:

Horizontal guide
Vertical guide

Guides are editing aids and are not part of customer-facing output.

Zoom HUD

Canvas zoom HUD supports:

Inline +, -, and reset controls
Relative zoom percentage display
Optional full-size rendering toggle

Plan Information Modal (Plan stats)

Plan information is a maintenance/QA workspace, not only a stats readout.

It provides:

Scope switch between whole plan and individual area stats (large plans)
Plan preview generation/regeneration image
Duplicate seat label detection with direct seat-jump actions
Object and capacity counts (areas, blocks, rows, tables, seats, GA, accessible)
Price band / gate / stair / stand / tag usage breakdowns
Restore actions when referenced metadata items are missing
Rendering version selector (with version help text)

Footer actions:

Save all areas
Recalculate labels

Left Object Menu (Creation Tools)

Area Tools

Tool	What it does
Add rectangular area	Inserts a rectangular area container
Draw area	Draws polygonal area boundaries

Large-plan workflows use areas as authoring units.

Block/Row Tools

Tool	What it does
Draw seats	Draws a seat block polygon
Draw row	Draws a row shape
Add block	Opens modal to add a rectangular block by row/seat counts
Add row	Opens modal to add a single row by seat count

Table Tools

Tool	What it does
Add tables	Opens table wizard (simple and advanced modes)

General Admission Tools

Tool	What it does
Add GA	Opens GA modal
Add circular area	Creates circular GA block with capacity
Add rectangular GA	Creates rectangular GA block with capacity
Draw polygonal area	Creates polygonal GA block with capacity

Text, Shapes, and Symbols

Tool	What it does
Add text	Adds text object
Add circle / Add rectangle	Adds shape objects
Draw line / Draw polygon	Adds drawable figure objects
Add icon	Opens symbol library modal and inserts selected symbol

Background Shortcut

Background settings is available from the object menu as a direct shortcut to the background modal.

Menu Orientation

Object menu can switch between:

Vertical dock
Horizontal dock

Guardrails

Seat/space creation actions are disabled when the max space limit is reached.
Add block/row/table controls auto-clamp input to hard seat limits.

Add Tables Wizard

The table wizard has two modes.

Simple Mode

Setting	What it controls
Seats per table	Seat count on each table
No. of tables	Number of tables to generate
Advanced settings	Switches to advanced grid mode

Simple mode actions:

Add circular table(s)
Add rectangular table(s)

Advanced Mode

Group	Settings
Grid geometry	Column count, row count, seats per table
Totals	Total tables and total seats vs remaining soft limit
Table structure	Table shape, seat disposition (for rectangular tables)
Booking behavior	Disallow individual seat booking
Label options	Seat label type, order, offset
Display options	Grid gap, angle

Advanced mode action:

Add table grid (or Add table if single table)

When best-available seats is enabled, the wizard warns that tables requiring

whole-table booking are excluded from best-seat suggestions.

Icon Library

Add icon opens categorized symbol sets:

Generic
Occasions
Food & drink
Sports

Selecting an icon inserts it directly on the canvas.

Right Settings Panel

Main Tabs (seating mode)

Tab	Purpose
Properties	Object-level configuration for current selection
Price bands	Define and manage price band visuals and assignment behavior
Gates	Manage gate taxonomy and apply to selected seats/GA
Stairs	Manage stair taxonomy and apply to selected seats/GA
Stands	Manage stand taxonomy and assignment
Tags	Manage tags and assignment behavior

Large-Plan Area Header Controls

When working with areas, the header exposes:

Save & back
Edit boundaries
Center area
Area context indicator (main area vs active area)

Area state warnings appear when:

Label settings changed and area labels need recalculation
Focal point scoring changed and area scores need recalculation

Layer List

When no single object is selected, the panel shows a draggable layer list for:

Reordering objects
Selecting objects directly from layer entries
Seeing area/type badges per layer

Taxonomy Management Tools

Price Bands

Add new price band
Edit label, color, and marker shape
Apply selected price band to selected seats/GA
Toggle shop display behavior:
Show price band colors/shapes
Show unavailable items in filters
Show unavailable legend

Gates, Stairs, Stands, Tags

Common management pattern:

Add new item
Rename item term (for example, custom gate/stair naming)
Edit item metadata
Apply to selection / remove from selection

Tags include extra metadata:

Color
Description
Used as filter
Used as tooltip
Show as ticket info

Object Property Tooling

The Properties tab is object-type aware.

Allocated Block

Group	Available tooling
Structure	Row count, seat/column count, block shape, seat layout, row alignment, row label position
Labels	Row/seat label type, order, start offset, post offset
Display	Angle, automatic radius sizing, radius margin, curve, row spacing, skew, seat spacing, inner radius, opacity
Row overrides	Per-row label and seat-count overrides, reset-to-default, add/delete row

Table

Group	Available tooling
Structure	Seat count, table shape, seat disposition, whole-table booking toggle
Labels	Seat label type, order, offset, post offset
Display	Automatic size, radius/length/height, angle

General Admission Block

Group	Available tooling
Structure	Custom label, capacity
Label display	Label offsets, font size, hide label
Seat options	Bulk seat/GA settings via shared seat settings component
Display	Width/height/radius/angle (shape dependent)

Area

Group	Available tooling
Area actions	Save/enter/load area (depending on state), delete area (when allowed)
Warnings	Recalculate labels or scores when out of sync
Display	Stroke/fill colors, rectangle dimensions, angle
Label display	Hide label, offsets, font size
Seat options	Bulk seat/GA settings in area scope

Shape (Figure)

Group	Available tooling
Appearance	Fill, opacity, stroke width/style/color
Geometry	Radius (circle), width/height/angle (rectangle)
Linking	Add/remove URL link and link target

QR / Barcode Object

Group	Available tooling
Code type	QR code or barcode type
Geometry	Width, height, angle (with type-aware constraints)

Text Object

Group	Available tooling
Content	Plain text, rich text (HTML), or ticket-data variable
Variable data	Field picker and test preview values
Typography	Font size, text color, style, decoration
Text block	Automatic size, width/height, padding, shrink-to-fit, horizontal/vertical alignment
Box styling	Stroke width/style/color, background/fill color
Linking	Add/remove URL link and link target
Display	Angle

Image Object

Group	Available tooling
Appearance	Scale, opacity, angle
Shop visibility	Show image in ticket shop (size-limited)
Asset update	Replace image via background image uploader

Symbol Object

Group	Available tooling
Appearance	Opacity, scale, angle

Seat

Group	Available tooling
Seat metadata	Custom label, comment, restricted flag, accessibility flag, accessibility icon mode
Assignments	Price band, gates, stairs, stand, tags
Best-seat scoring	Score and score adjustment (when focal point exists)
Seat status actions	Hide, unhide, delete, restore

Row (single-row override)

Group	Available tooling
Row metadata	Custom label, seat count override
Layout overrides	Row alignment, row label position, left/top offsets, radius offset (when applicable)
Seat label overrides	Seat label type, order, offset, post offset

Focal Point

Group	Available tooling
Scoring	Intensity slider
Visualization	Heatmap toggle
Sync aid	Recalculate scores action when areas become out of sync

View-From-Seat (3D) Tooling

When View from seat settings is available:

Set 3D venue ID at plan level
Map seat-level view IDs
Paginate through seat mappings
Save mappings (and optionally Save all areas on large plans)

Tips And Shortcuts

The settings panel exposes shortcut guidance for selected objects, including:

Rotate by small increments with modifier + left/right arrows
Rotate by larger increments with modifier + up/down arrows
Move objects with arrow keys
Increase move distance with Shift

Guardrails And Limits

Seat/space hard limits block further creation once reached.
Input controls for block/table/row creation clamp to allowed ranges.
Some operations are constrained when plans have events/sales attached.
Area deletion is restricted for saved areas when events are attached.
Image-in-shop toggles are disabled above file-size threshold.

Introduction
Revisions
Holds
Seated Events

28. Seating Plans - Editor