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This release adds many improvements to PerfectTablePlan v5. You will require a v6 licence key to unlock the full functionality. v6 is a paid upgrade from v5 (free if you purchased v5 within 3 months of v6 being released). You can buy a new licence key here (or upgrade from a previous version here).
7. During import you can now choose to not import some rows. If you set an Import this row column, then rows with an empty cell or a cell starting with 'n' or 'f' (case-insensitive) for this column are not imported. All rows are imported if there is no Import this row column.
8. Resize your Floor Plan with drag and drop. Just hover over the bottom-right corner and drag the room to the correct size. If grid snap is enabled in the Dimensions window, the resizing will conform to it. You can't resize the room if Freeze floor plan is checked.
9. Edit the shape, colour, number of seats and size for multiple tables in a single operation. Select the tables in the Floor Plan or Schematic pane and then select the appropriate Edit>Table Property sub-menu. Note that all the selected tables must be the same shape to edit the seats or size in this way.
10. Add an extra seat at any position in the Floor Plan, Table Plan and Schematic panes. Select the existing seats you wish to add extra seats at, right click and select Add Seat. A new seat will be added at the position of each selected seat and the existing seat will be moved clockwise.
14. There is a new wall/line drawing tool in the Floor Plan pane. To access it click the Insert line button then left click at the start and at each change of direction. Double click at the end. You can specify the colour and thickness of the walls. You can also choose to restrict the walls to 90 degree angles. If the grid snap is on, the wall will snap to the grid. The length of each segment is shown as you draw it, so you can also use it to measure the distance between two points.
16. Circular, semi-circular, oval and serpentine tables with chairs or rectangular seats make better use of the space available for displaying guest names. This will allow you to use larger fonts or longer names. The green boxes below show the bounding area for the text (they are for illustration and are not shown in the production version of PerfectTablePlan).
17. Name only (radial) and Name only (banquet) allocate more space to exterior seats if there is only 1 table (e.g. an E-shaped table). This allows you to use larger fonts or longer names. The green boxes below show the bounding area for the text (they are for illustration and are not shown in the production version of PerfectTablePlan).
18. Name only (radial) and Name only (banquet) support word wrap if a name is too long to fit on one line. This allows you to use larger fonts or longer names.This is particularly useful for names between the sprigs of E-shaped tables, where space is at a premium.
19. You can Auto size seat text in the Floor Plan and Table Plan panes. This will set the seat text to the largest size where no text will have to be scaled smaller to fit into the space available.
20. Optionally store your Preferences in a .ini file instead of the Windows system registry or Mac OS X Library/Preferences. This allows you to store the PerfectTablePlan application, its preferences and plans on a portable device, such as a USB drive (memory stick), and move it easily from one computer to another. Just pull the USB drive out of one computer and plug it into another. No need to copy across your licence key, preferences, plans or anything else as it can all be stored on the USB key. You can even move it between Windows and Mac if you install both Windows and Mac versions of PerfectTablePlan on the device.
21. PerfectTablePlan better handles 'particules' (last name prefixes used in French, Dutch, German, Italian and other languages). For example 'Johannes van der Waals' has last name 'van der Waals' but can now optionally be listed under 'W' (rather than 'v') in the Guest Chart pane. PerfectTablePlan will also know to split 'Johannes van der Waals' into first name='Johannes' and last name='van der Waals' when importing. You can specify particule behaviour using the Particules and ignore particules when sorting fields in the Names tab of the Preferences window.
22. File>Auto Assign Seats now shows an animation in the Floor Plan pane. This shows how the auto seat assignment algorithm is changing the layout in real-time. This can be useful for deciding when to keep running it and when to stop it. You can turn off the animation by unchecking the animate in Floor Plan check box in the Auto assign tab of the Preferences window. The animation below shows the automatic seat assignment improving a random seating. The green arrows show guests being reassigned. The colour of a seat shows how happy the guest is with where they are sat (red=unhappy, green=happy).
23. Set a decided by PerfectTablePlan option in the Auto assign tab of the Preferences window to let PerfectTablePlan decide when the automatic seat assignment stops. It will try to balance the likelihood of finding a better solution against the time taken.
24. You can specify in the Preferences window if you want the automatic seat assignment to sit mixed-gender couples with 'next to' proximity so that the female is on the left or right of the male. This setting also affects the order in which groups of guests are placed by drag and drop.
25. Ask PerfectTablePlan to suggest the best guest to sit at a seat, based on guest proximities. Right-click on the seat and select Guest suggestions. Each suggestion is shown with the difference it would make to the overall score if this guest was assigned. It also shows you if the guest is already assigned and/or locked. If you select one of the suggestions, they will be assigned to the seat. If the search is taking a long time (e,g, because there are 1000+ guests) the best option found after a couple of seconds will be shown.
29. Create a list of standard suffixes to use across plans, in the same way you already can with titles. They are added into the Suffixes drop-down list and are also used to work out which part of imported names are suffixes. If you have a text list of suffixes you can easily add them in by clicking Add text list....
32. Optionally sort titles and suffixes in the order they are shown in the Titles and Suffixes tabs of the Preferences window, instead of alphabetically. This could be useful if you are seating guests by rank or precedence (e.g. military, diplomatic or other formal events).
40. If you zoom in/out using the mouse wheel in the Floor Plan or Table Plan pane, PerfectTablePlan tries to keep the item under the mouse cursor stationary relative to the cursor as you zoom.
48. Previously the Size spin box on the Print window could queue up lots of updates if the mouse was held down on the up or down buttons. It will now only do one update if you hold the mouse down on the up or down buttons.
58. Serpentine tables have been added. You can specify the number of seats around the outside, around the inside and on either end. Serpentine tables can be used with custom or banquet tables to create horseshoe shaped tables. A sample horseshoe shaped table plan is installed with PerfectTablePlan.
Back in 2011 I created eventcountdown.com. It had a snazzy downloadable, PerfectTablePlan-branded countdown clock for Windows and web-based countdown clock with ads for PerfectTablePlan. Both free. The idea was people searching for countdown clocks for events (such as their wedding) would find the site via Google, find out about PerfectTablePlan and a certain percentage would then buy my event seating planner software.
I paid other people to create the Windows and web versions of the countdown clock. The web-based clock was updated from time to time to add pre-built countdowns for events like superbowl, the olympics, christmas, thanksgiving etc. And I fielded the occasional support emails related to the Windows countdown clock.
The peaks are mostly due to superbowl. The site got 38k hits in a single day just before superbowl 2019! The free Windows countdown clock also drew quite a lot of traffic. In total the site got some 1.7 million page views over 12 years. Only a small percentage of these visitors clicked through to PerfectTablePlan.com, but still a useful number. Perhaps some people were also prompted to investigate PerfectTablePlan by the branding on the downloadable clock. The site might have also had some SEO benefits for PerfectTablePlan.com. Who knows.
I have also created various other contents pages and mini-sites over the years: articles on table planning, font collections, free clipart, place card templates etc. You can see similar trajectories for some of those.
I did some basic on-page SEO for these content pages. For example, looking at Adwords keyword data to choose the page title and H1. But nothing beyond that. No paid promotion or backlink building campaigns.
In each group, there are k! different ways to order the people, but allthese are considered equivalent for our purposes (we don't care what orderpeople are listed within a table). So we divide by k!, and do it j times,once for each table.
(You can get the same formula by considering 'n choose k' to choose thepeople for the first table, multiplied by '(n-k) choose k', for the second,etc., with n reducing by k each time as the pool of available peopleshrinks, dividing by j! to account for permutations of tables, andsimplifying).
So, we haven't got into the business of doing the table plan yet, but this issuch a nice programming puzzle that I couldn't resist starting now (and weprobably need to get a move on if we are to get this done...).
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