Plans

There's a lot to consider when designing a seating plan. As we've seen, Table Tailor helps you to evaluate how happy each of your guests are with their seating position.

Even so, it is often worth trying out a few different arrangements to see what works best.

Table Tailor has a feature called plans to help with this.

Plans allow you to compare and contrast different options, with each plan holding a separate set of:

  • Table information (number of tables, table names, table shapes / sizes)
  • Seating information (who is sat where)

Goal: Create a second plan to experiment with variations

Tables page

Press Tables in the main navigation bar

At the top of the Tables page you will find the plan selector.

This is where you can manage your plans for the currently active event.

You can see your currently selected plan or switch between them using the dropdown. At the moment, we are working with Plan 1, which gets created automatically when you create an event.

To the right of the dropdown are buttons for managing plans.

  • The + button can be used to create a new plan, we'll look at this in more detail shortly.
  • The edit button lets you rename the active plan or add notes.
  • The delete button lets you delete the plan. You must have at least one plan in each event, so this is only available if you have two or more plans.

Below the plan dropdown is a summary of the active plan. As you can see, this plan has 8 tables and 7 guests, 6 of which have been seated.

There is an Export button which allows you to export a list of who is sat where, in the form of a PDF.

Adding a plan

Let's create a new plan so that we can try a different seating arrangement. By doing this in a second plan, we can safely experiment without losing our current layout.

Press Tables in the main navigation bar, then tap on + in the plan selector at the top.

For the Plan Name, enter Mirror image.

For Would you like to use another plan as a template?, select Plan 1

Tip: This option lets you choose whether the new plan should be created as a blank canvas, or whether you'd like to copy any information from an existing plan.

For What would you like to copy?, select Tables and guest positions

Tip: This option lets you choose how much information should be copied from the existing plan. "Just the tables" will give you the same tables but with all seats unoccupied, whereas "Tables and guest positions" will create a new copy of the tables and all of your seating choices.

Press Save.

Making changes within second plan

The plan selector now shows Mirror image as the selected plan.

Let's make some changes, using what we learnt earlier:

Tap Table 1

Drag the guests so that they are sat in the opposite order.

Tables in the main navigation bar to return to the table overview.

Tap Table 2

Seat our last remaining guest (Emily Clark) in any of the seats.

Press Tables in the main navigation bar to return to the table overview.

As you can see, our changes all show up in the overview.

Switching between plans

We can switch between our plans to try different options and compare them.

In the plan selector, use the dropdown to select Plan 1

By switching between multiple plans, it is easy to try out different variations without losing anything.