Changelog

14/10/2025​

• Scanner: Shows the number of seats and rows scanned

10/10/2025​

• Event manager: Seat statuses are shown in manage categories mode

07/10/2025​

• Webapp: sandbox admins can view and update sandbox settings and workspaces

06/10/2025​

• Designer: user can turn off beautification in the scanner, if that happened unexpectedly

01/10/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue where certain combinations of channel pricing were incorrectly considered invalid.

30/09/2025​

• Designer: bug fix: when changing the zone key, objects within that zone get the new key

24/09/2025​

• Renderer: bug fix: real-time updates didn't always work for event groups

23/09/2025​

• Designer: scanner works for images with transparent background

22/09/2025​

• Webapp: you can now invite "sandbox admin" users. They have admin permissions, but within a sandbox only.
• Event Manager gets up-to-date category and not-for-sale information when rendering, instead of potentially stale cached data

18/09/2025​

• Webapp: you can now create sandboxes: isolated environments for testing

17/09/2025​

• Designer: scanner works better on charts that don't have consistent seat spacing

09/09/2025​

• Renderer: minimap now works properly on multi-floor charts
• Renderer and Event Manager support event groups on which custom categories or category assignments are defined
• API: deleted workspaces don't appear in the list of subaccounts anymore

08/09/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue where object pricing was incorrectly required a category property during validation.

05/09/2025​

• Event Manager: Fixed an issue where the popover + button would become disabled in EM edit order and select modes, and not allow incrementing the selection.

02/09/2025​

• Designer: bug fix: row curving works again

29/08/2025​

• Designer: Add additional step to scanner when scanning charts with sections.
• Designer: Update German translation

27/08/2025​

• Renderer: For multi-floor venues with a locked floor, the zoom out button will not go back to full floor overview
• Event Manager: Multi-selecting seats with ticket types now results in one batch call to /change-object-status

21/08/2025​

• EM: Improved selection confirmation speed when selecting a large number of objects.

19/08/2025​

• EM: Improved performance for rectangle and lasso multi select tools.
• Designer: Now possible to make all sizes of rectangular shapes fully rounded.

18/08/2025​

• API: removed legacy routes:
  • GET /subaccounts/active
  • GET /subaccounts/inactive
  • POST /subaccounts/secret-key/actions/regenerate
  • POST /subaccounts/designer-key/actions/regenerate
  • POST /subaccounts/charts/{chartKey}/actions/copy-to/parent

16/08/2025​

• Designer: Bug fix when holding shift and clicking on seats
• Renderer: Row labels are shown depending on zoom level
• Event Manager: Long channel and category names are wrapped

11/08/2025​

• Designer: New selection indicators for all objects, and an updated look for the selected objects rectangle.

06/08/2025​

• Designer: Seats will now remain painted during multi-selection

04/08/2025​

• Designer: Fixed issues that arose when changing the key of the currently editting Zone.

01/08/2025​

• New Accessibility option: Plus-size

29/07/2025​

• Event Manager: Lasso selector will only evaluate objects visible on the screen, and no longer selects VO tables in EM for sale mode.

28/07/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue where the session expired modal could appear in an endless loop after a token expires.

24/07/2025​

• Renderer: Adjusted the zoom threshold at which the selection auras are displayed.

23/07/2025​

• Designer: Fixed an issue where enabling "View from seat" and selecting a seat with a VFS image would make the UI disappear.

22/07/2025​

• API: endpoints that return data about seats (e.g. the book endpoint) now return the parentDisplayedObjectType for seats in a row, if the row has a displayed object type set in Designer (e.g. row, couch, or bar)

18/07/2025​

• Renderer: Categories with no selectable places will not be shown in the categoryFilter
• Event Manager: companion seats validation is not enabled by default anymore

10/07/2025​

• Event Manager in manageChannels now shows the number of selected places before applying a channel

09/07/2025​

• Event Manager in manageChannels mode now clearly shows the edits before clicking "apply changes"
• Designer: seats can be marked as suitable for people with a hearing impairment

07/07/2025​

• Renderer bugfix: companion and semi-ambulatory seats with a wheelchair-accessible category now correctly show their specific icon instead of the wheelchair icon.

04/07/2025​

• Renderer: priceLevelsTooltipMessage is now deprecated, since the new popovers don't use that property anymore.

03/07/2025​

• Renderer: Companion seats cannot be selected without adjacent accessible/ADA/semi-ambulatory seat first. This feature can be toggled on/off in Company Settings.

02/07/2025​

• Webapp: changing pricing plan works again (if you're on an old plan)

01/07/2025​

• Renderer: Ability to pan large view from seat images in full-screen
• Renderer: Fixed issue with undefined price showing on Popover
• Renderer: Fixed issue with primary price in category filter

30/06/2025​

• Renderer: When hovering Sections, Popover now shows up to four available categories, sorted by ascending price.

25/06/2025​

• Renderer: Added support for fees in pricing.
• Renderer: A ticket type price can now be specified as primary to favor showing a single price over a range in the popover.

19/06/2025​

• Renderer: canGASelectionBeIncreased is now deprecated

18/06/2025​

• Renderer: Added new pricing configuration format where pricing can now be defined as an object with additional properties. Existing array format is still supported.
• Renderer: Popovers no longer touching viewport edges unless the embed is too small.

17/06/2025​

• Renderer: Popovers "Confirm" button working correctly alongside deprecated renderer configuration parameters.

16/06/2025​

• Renderer: Popovers now correctly allow selecting ticket types with an empty string as an id.
• Designer: Fixed Object Inspector width

13/06/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue where price ranges would not show if any of the prices were undefined

11/06/2025​

• New security feature: you can now control which ticket buyers are allowed to hold and release seats, and limit the number of hold tokens per ticket buyer (docs).

11/06/2025​

• Inactive workspaces can now be deleted
• Event Manager: if a section has the same name as an other object on the chart (e.g. an area), assigning an event-level category to that object does not lead to the section getting the same category
• Renderer: fixed issue with tooltips and popovers getting closed when interacted with on charts with zones on mobile.

09/06/2025​

• Renderer: Better fit for Popover modals in edge case embed sizes.
• Renderer: New "Read more" button for long descriptions in ticket types when picking the number of places per ticket type, or choosing a ticket type with confirmation turned on. When confirmation is off, a popup will trigger when selecting a ticket type to read the entire description with Close & Select buttons at the bottom.

04/06/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue where booth and table object names weren't translated correctly.
• Renderer: The popover will now show more description text before reverting to a "show more" button in small embeds.

02/06/2025​

• Renderer: Improved popover price range display for small embeds.

28/05/2025​

• Renderer: on old events, seats that were disabled because of social distancing will now appear to be free. We don't mention social distancing anymore.

27/05/2025​

• Event Manager: new "edit order" mode, to add places to or remove places from an order
• Renderer: popovers now support longer popoverInfo text

26/05/2025​

• Renderer: steppers in popovers are aligned correctly for long ticket types

23/05/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue where the popover didn't show correct info for sections with no available places.

22/05/2025​

• Renderer: orphan seat detection works correctly for resale seats that are held

21/05/2025​

• Renderer: popovers respect maxSelectedObjects when selecting places in an area
• Renderer: popovers in the Event Manager work properly for areas when session is enabled

19/05/2025​

• API: calls that list status changes are now much faster for events with many status changes
• Renderer Popovers: Fixed small styling issue that rounded the wrong corners on Right-To-Left languages.

16/05/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue where held places in a single event would not make them unavailable when the event is included in an event group and not using sessions.

15/05/2025​

• Designer: displayedLabels fields can now be disabled via the features configuration parameter.
• Renderer: Better appearance for disabled Stepper buttons.

13/05/2025​

• Event Manager: new "create order" mode. Preferred over using the Renderer in a Point of Sale application (which allow back office users to sell tickets).

08/05/2025​

• Event Manager: fix for error when calling changeConfig on an Event Manager in 'select' mode, with objectColor and ticketTypes defined as parameters

08/05/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed a Popover issue where maxSelectedObjects wasn't working correctly when used with both categories and ticket types.

06/05/2025​

• API: marking objects as Not For Sale on a season, if they're already NFS on a(n) event(s) in that season (and vice versa) now properly returns a 400 response, as this would lead to inconsistent state.

29/04/2025​

• Renderer/API: resale seats that belong to the same listing are hovered and selected as a group

11/04/2025​

• Renderer: released Flutter SDK
• Renderer: added the ability to prevent rendering charts on pages served on localhost

01/04/2025​

• Designer: newly uploaded reference chart can be recalibrated on charts with sections
• Renderer: tweaked styling of last remaining seats for an event
• Renderer: popover indicates when a seat was taken by someone else in the meantime
• Event Manager: Accessibility, lift-up armrests and restricted view icons are now shown on seats in most Event Manager modes.

31/03/2025​

• Event Manager: Accessibility and seat property icons are now shown in EM Select mode.

27/03/2025​

• Designer: Fixed an issue where section contents would move around after moving section edges or deleting polygon points.

26/03/2025​

• Renderer: Held seats in multi events will now be unavailable unless held in all specified events.

25/03/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue where in some cases, on touch devices, pressing the +/- buttons would increase/decrease the selected quantity in steps of 2
• Renderer: Fixed an issue where per-object prices of 0 (zero) would not be correctly formatted

19/03/2025​

• Renderer: entrance is now available in callbacks for variable occupancy tables and seats on tables
• Renderer: Popover will always require confirmation when using Preevue.

17/03/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue with whole row selection where already selected seats would throw an error.
• Renderer: Whole row selection with single ticket types now shows the selection prompt instead of selecting directly.

13/03/2025​

• API: best available calls support passing in sections

13/03/2025​

• Renderer: Selecting places on a General Admission Area hides available places in the Popover.
• Renderer: Improved multi selection with rectangle and lasso tools. Invalid selections will now provide visual feedback and not make the selection stuck.

12/03/2025​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue where whole row selection would not select places with ticket types. Selection is now contiguous until either an unavailable seat or seat with different category is hit.
• Renderer: Fixed an issue where some objects would not show the section they belong to in the Popover when hovered.
• Renderer: Whole row selection is now disabled when maxSelectedObjects is used.

11/03/2025​

• Renderer: Modal Popovers now grow sideways to cover the embed edge-to-edge on very small embeds.
• Renderer: Fixed issue with Popovers not preventing selection of a ticket type option when the maximum number selected for a given ticket type is reached, when the related confirmation setting is disabled.

10/03/2025​

• Renderer: Ticket type descriptions in Popovers now support BBCode.
• Renderer: Added support for new SAR currency symbol for pricing.
• Renderer: Fixed occupancy objects and multiple objects with a single ticket type can now be directly selected without specifying amount.

03/03/2025​

• Renderer: added onHoldCallsInProgress and onHoldCallsComplete.

28/02/2025​

• Renderer: When using the orphan seat validator, regular and resale seats next to each other will no longer be considered orphans.

26/02/2025​

• Renderer: New Spotlight view that can be used on regular modes.
• Renderer: Now the whole row/table selection option is enabled when multi-select is enabled in normal mode.

25/02/2025​

• Renderer: Popovers now allow selecting ticket types from a modal with a single click without confirmation, unless the new configuration parameter objectPopover.confirmTicketTypeSelection is set to true.

24/02/2025​

• Renderer: Setting multiSelectEnabled will now only take effect in normal mode.
• Renderer: Fixed an issue where setting objectTooltip.confirmSelectionOnMobile wasn't behaving as expected when set to false.

21/02/2025​

• Renderer: Added warnings for several deprecated configuration settings.
• Renderer: Reduced camera motion when focusing to select seats.

17/02/2025​

• Event Manager: Fixed an issue where whole row deselection sometimes would leave some some seats selected
• Renderer: Fixed an issue where using the showActiveSectionTooltipOnMobile setting would still show the tooltip
• Renderer: Popovers now correctly replace category names, ticket types and their descriptions as specified in the messages configuration parameter.

14/02/2025​

• Event Manager: Improved selection tools. Selection can now be toggled between selecting entire rows and tables, and single seats (default behavior).

12/02/2025​

• Renderer: Fix an incorrect Greek translation

10/02/2025​

• Designer: allow copy-pasting between two open designer windows or tabs
• Renderer: gracefully recover when having been offline for more than 2 minutes

07/02/2025​

• Renderer: Selecting places in an Area now requires the user to click Confirm in a Popover, in order to bring its behavior in line with other modals, but also to reduce confusion from the seemingly redundant Confirm button.
• Event Manager: Fixed an issue with selecting places in a General Admission Area with Popovers when sessions are enabled.

06/02/2025​

• Event Manager: Fixed an issue in manageObjectStatuses mode where changes were displayed incorrectly in the object popover header if temporarily held.

22/01/2025​

• Renderer: minor fixes to Greek translations

20/01/2025​

• Designer: scanner is much more tolerant when the size of the cursor doesn't match the seat size

17/01/2025​

• Renderer: When clicking a Variable or Fixed Occupancy area or table, a Popover is now shown to edit the selection as opposed to deselecting the entire object.

16/01/2025​

• Event Manager: allow manual input of the number of places to be selected in an area instead of having to use the + buttons

13/01/2025​

• Renderer: For multi-floor venues, the zoom out button can now go all the way back to full floor overview.
• Renderer: Popovers now correctly take into account the showCategory setting in Event Manager.

10/01/2025​

• Webapp: Fixed an issue where changing default payment method was greyed out and couldn't be selected.

09/01/2025​

• Event Manager: Popovers are showing more info for Sections in EM modes.
• Renderer: Fixed a bug where ticket type limits were not taken into account for trySelectObjects and doSelectObjects calls.
• Chart scanner: Improved row detection and reference chart image quality.

07/01/2025​

• API: made booking best available seats by category faster

19/12/2024​

• Designer: moved reference chart scanner out of beta. It's enabled by default when using the designer on https://app.seats.io. Go to https://app.seats.io/company-settings#designer to enable the scanner in the embedded designer.
• API: many best available calls for single categories are faster than before (e.g. some calls for Cat1, some calls for Cat2).

17/12/2024​

• Event Manager: the new popovers now also show orderId

13/12/2024​

• Designer: scanner now supports charts with sections
• Renderer & API bugfix: Extra data is now preserved when objects are held or unheld due to ticket buyer selection or deselection, and when a hold expires.

13/12/2024​

• Designer: added missing translation for 'accessibility'

12/12/2024​

• Designer: all objects can be scaled (except seats)

10/12/2024​

• Renderer: Fixed an issue where hovering objects without a category would cause an error in EM manage categories mode.
• Renderer and designer: Seats can now be specified with flip-up armrests, which is indicated with a new icon.

09/12/2024​

• Designer: scanner prevents overlapping rows (e.g. when the seats on the reference chart are wide)

06/12/2024​

• API: hard cap on the maximum number of objects in the endpoints to hold or release holds
• Webapp: don't crash when searching for status changes that contain non-latin1 characters (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic)

06/12/2024​

• Event manager: for sale config for an area can be changed, even if its capacity was lowered to less than the number of places not for sale

05/12/2024​

• Designer: improved row detection for reference charts with wide seats

28/11/2024​

• Renderer Popovers: clicking on a Variable Occupancy or Fixed Occupancy area or table with multiple ticket types will now display the modal again to allow editing, as opposed to simply undoing the entire selection.
• Renderer Popovers: the category name is now displayed below the "Selected" label.

28/11/2024​

• API: breaking change: when listing all charts with expand=events, we return at most 10 events per chart (and not all events).

25/11/2024​

• Renderer: Ticket type selection in Popover now react to changes outside of it, and correctly disable ticket types that are no longer available.

22/11/2024​

• API: overriding and using the season status for an object can be done in batch, together with other status changes.
• Renderer: Fixed issue when hovering areas when a maxSelectedObjects entry is set to zero.
• Renderer: number of available places is calculated properly for areas in event groups (when they have places not for sale).

18/11/2024​

• Renderer: Popover modals now update when selections are made programmatically.
• Designer: Label scanner skips rows with labels that can't be confidently scanned.

14/11/2024​

• Designer: added progress indicator to scanner
• Designer: if onExitRequested doesn't actually exit the designer, we still hide the publish button after publishing
• Renderer: Icons for accessible places will now take precedence over restricted view

13/11/2024​

• Renderer: showing a chart from a webview (iOS/Android) works even when you configured whitelisted domains in your company settings.
• API: calls in the regular lane (not the priority lane) were accidentally limited to 5 instead of 10 concurrent requests. Now the limit is 10, as documented.
• Webapp: Fixed a styling issue in the password change form

08/11/2024​

• Renderer: "Section" is now properly translated in Popover.
• Designer: scanner detects seat labels
• Designer: fixed slow scanning in Firefox

06/11/2024​

• Renderer: fixed bug when calling chart.changeConfig() with numberOfPlacesToSelect and availableCategories (or unavailableCategories)

05/11/2024​

• Renderer: Fixed floor elevator component hover effects.
• Designer: Preventing drawing very tiny areas to avoid issues in rendering.

29/10/2024​

• Designer: Fixed issue that caused the Chart Scanner to crash.
• Renderer: Fixed "Done" entry for the Arabic language.
• Designer: Rectangular and elliptical areas no longer show transform controls that don't work on them.
• Designer: Added more precision for the Curve property of rows.

25/10/2024​

• Renderer & Event Manager: new object popover. Learn more.

25/10/2024​

• Designer: improved scanner speed for large images

24/10/2024​

• Designer: show category name in the tooltip in the category picker component
• API: ability to change the status of resale seats that are assigned to a channel, even without passing in the channel key
• Renderer: Resale seats are now selectable even when assigned to a channel and no channel is configured in the seating chart config

24/10/2024​

• Webapp: ability to detach an event from its chart and move it to a new chart copy

18/10/2024​

• Renderer: improved Lithuanian translations

17/10/2024​

• API: added endpoint to detach an event from a chart and move it to a new copy of that chart

14/10/2024​

• API: retrieved categories (from a chart or an event) always have accessible and color filled in, even if they weren't passed in explicitly when creating the categories

07/10/2024​

• API & Renderer: the new Resale status allows you to manage primary and secondary ticket sales directly on the same seating chart, offering users the ability to select and purchase resold seats.

04/10/2024​

• Renderer: we show a confirmation dialog on mobile when clicking on a variable occupancy table or area, even when the minimum capacity is equal to the number of places

30/09/2024​

• Renderer: greek translation fix for wheelchair accessible

30/09/2024​

• API: expose floor information for objects in chart reports

24/09/2024​

• Renderer: Fixed a bug where the Event Manager channels list would prevent clicking on seats behind it.
• Renderer: Fixed seat label rotation on multi segmented rows.

23/09/2024​

• Designer: chart scanner (beta), which allows detecting seats on a reference image.
• Webapp: you can now update your credit card through app.seats.io, without having to go to a separate website.

11/09/2024​

• API: a more specific error is returned in the response body when status changes fail (ILLEGAL_STATUS_CHANGE instead of GENERAL_ERROR)

06/09/2024​

• Renderer: Fixed a selection bug with general admission areas when added to selectableObjects.

04/09/2024​

• Renderer: it's now possible to define pricing for objects (by their label), regardless of their category

03/09/2024​

• API: best available calls now support an accessibleSeats parameter, to indicate how many accessible seats you need

02/09/2024​

• Renderer: Now exposing the object.entrance property in callbacks.

30/08/2024​

• API: expose floor information in response when changing object status (expand=objects)
• API: return a clearer error message when creating an event with a key that already exists, but on archived charts

28/08/2024​

• Renderer: Fixed issue where orphan seats would not be styled correctly when zoomed out.

27/08/2024​

• Renderer: Italian translation fix.
• API: best available call is now much faster when no best available places could be found

22/08/2024​

• Renderer: Variable occupancy tables and areas are now supported by selectableObjects.

22/08/2024​

• Event Manager: Fixed an issue where variable occupancy tables and areas could not be selected when booked.
• Web App: Any user with access to multiple workspaces can now copy charts between them.

20/08/2024​

• Renderer: added the ability to define pricing per channel

18/07/2024​

• New chart type: Zones. Charts with Zones are useful for larger venues, such as race tracks, air shows, and parades, which have multiple focal points as the action is not centered in a single place.

16/07/2024​

• Designer: using new venue types; SIMPLE and WITH_SECTIONS_AND_FLOORS instead of the deprecated MIXED and ROWS_WITH_SECTIONS.

16/07/2024​

• API: added encryption on non-documented API endpoints
• API: introduction of new venue type names (SIMPLE and WITH_SECTIONS_AND_FLOORS), plus migration of existing charts to use those new names. Old venue types are still supported when creating new charts through the API.

15/07/2024​

• Designer: Translation fix for German

11/07/2024​

• Renderer: fixed an issue where variable occupancy tables were incorrectly rendered if some other tables had overridden booking modes on the event.

10/07/2024​

• Designer: uploading high-res PDFs now doesn't time out

09/07/2024​

• Renderer: Increased the size of the minimap, allowing larger sizes for larger embeds.
• Renderer: Fixed a bug where the tooltip select button wasn't rendering correctly on mobile in the Event Manager edit channels and categories modes.

28/06/2024​

• Renderer: ignoreCategories: true now works properly when detecting orphan seats

26/06/2024​

• Renderer: Zooming out from inside a section will now go to the full section when appropriate, rather than zoom all the way out.

19/06/2024​

• Renderer: fully held variable occupancy tables now get re-selected on page refresh, as they should be

19/06/2024​

• Designer/renderer: fixed browser inconsistencies when uploading an SVG without absolute width and height

18/06/2024​

• Event Manager bug fix: clicking on variable occupancy tables, with maxSelectedObjects set per ticket type, would not result in selecting VO table.
• Event manager bug fix: manageCategories mode now takes previously deleted categories into account

11/06/2024​

• Designer: Added new line tool

10/06/2024​

• Event Manager: Added new configuration setting showSearchButton to control search button visibility.

06/06/2024​

• Renderer: showUnavailableNotice: false is now taken into account when showing the tooltip for variable occupancy tables

03/06/2024​

• Renderer: bugfix for issue where the legend would show a black dot for Not Available, instead of the expected gray

28/05/2024​

• Renderer: objectWithoutCategorySelectable is now deprecated. Use chart validation instead.

27/05/2024​

• Designer: don't consider the row label as part of the row when rotating
• Designer: improve row selection when dragging (only select the row when the seats are touched, not when the bbox of the row is touched)

24/05/2024​

• Designer & Renderer: single-seat rows can now be rotated, to be able to display their row and seat label at a consistent angle

24/05/2024​

• Designer: holding Alt/Option now always disables all snapping

22/05/2024​

• Designer: added allowEditingAreaCapacity: true/false as an option to the safeModeOptions config parameter for embedded designers, to tweak the behavior of safe mode.

14/05/2024​

• designer/renderer: we now support SVG images

06/05/2024​

• API: Holdtokens can be used to hold a maximum number of 200 places now, to prevent malicious users from holding entire floor plans. This is configurable via the "Maximum number of holds per token" setting on the company settings page.

30/04/2024​

• API: Update chart category

29/04/2024​

• Event Manager: New isObjectSelectable config parameter to control object selection in select mode.
• Designer: when deleting a category, its key doesn't get reused for new categories later on
• Webapp: non-admin users can get access to all current and future workspaces

26/04/2024​

• Designer: you can now set a View From Your Seat image on a table
• Designer: all objects can have an entrance, not just sections and areas

24/04/2024​

• API: it was already possible to override the season status for seats. Now we support areas as well.

22/04/2024​

• Event Manager: tooltip now updates properly when selecting or deselecting an object in manage for sale config mode

19/04/2024​

• API: bug fix in the validation of requests when holding places in variable occupancy areas and tables; it is now not possible to hold extra places with a different hold token through the public API call

19/04/2024​

• Webapp: bug fix: inviting a disabled user to a new company now works properly

18/04/2024​

• Event Manager: Better support for seats with icons on the filtered-out appearance when using setHighlightedObjects.
• Renderer: New lockActiveFloor config parameter to prevent switching floors on multi-floor charts.
• Renderer: New showFloorElevator config parameter to show or hide the floor elevator on multi-floor charts.
• Renderer: New goToFloor(floorName: string) chart method to programmatically switch floors on multi-floor charts.
• Renderer: New goToAllFloorsView() chart method to programmatically return to the all-floors view on multi-floor charts.

17/04/2024​

• Renderer: reduced number of required clicks when selecting multiple places at once and if there is a single ticket type. For instance: a variable occupancy table with min occupancy equal to the table's capacity, or selecting 3 seats with numberOfSelectedObjects set to 3

10/04/2024​

• Designer: Fixed a bug where the loading screen overlay could take over the entire viewport.

05/04/2024​

• Designer: added a new safeModeOptions config parameter for embedded designers, to tweak the behavior of safe mode. Currently only on option: allowDeletingObjects: true/false

04/04/2024​

• Designer: New icon for "Select seats" tool.
• Designer: Double clicking on a Row or Table will now select the underlying seat, switching to the "Select seats" tool.

03/04/2024​

• Renderer: Fixed a bug where icons would not show for small tables.
• API: when retrieving an event, channels don't contain objects that have deleted from the chart

29/03/2024​

• Renderer now shows view-from-seat images for non-seat objects on mobile as well
• Renderer: new ignoreCategories configuration flag for the noOrphanSeats selection validator

28/03/2024​

• Event Manager: fixed bug where VO table icons of one floor were still shown when focused on a different floor
• Renderer & Event Manager: fixed bug where area icons were not shown if showing the area label was turned off in Designer

25/03/2024​

• Designer: safe mode now prevents editing table and area types
• Event Manager: fixed bug when showing icons on Variable Occupancy tables within sections
• Event Manager: restored defaults for error gradient & label

25/03/2024​

• Added semi-ambulatory seats as a new type of accessibility, to make it possible to clearly distinguish wheelchair-accessible seats from non-wheelchair accessible seats (e.g. due to a few steps)
• API: status changes don't contain the IP of the Seats.io server anymore, just the IP from which the status change was made

22/03/2024​

• Renderer: Variable Occupancy table labels now behave and look more closely to other tablet type labels.
• Renderer: Fixed colors used in Spotlight mode for non-selected objects.

20/03/2024​

• API: Allow cancelling overriding season status for an object on an event - i.e. use the season status again for the object -, even if the object is non-free on the event in the season.

19/03/2024​

• Designer: Safeguard to prevent drawing tiny polygonal shapes by accident now takes zoom level into account, to allow drawing small areas when needed.
• Renderer: Fixed minor bug on tooltip for Sections containing Variable Occupancy tables.

18/03/2024​

• Embedded designer now opens the latest drawing by default for new accounts: draft drawing if it exists, published drawing if not.

14/03/2024​

• Designer: added tables.variableOccupancy feature flag to enable/disable variable occupancy tables in an embedded designer

13/03/2024​

• Renderer: adjusted size of seats when zoomed out.
• Renderer: fixed issue that prevented seats from being enlarged more when zoomed out very far while having a few available seats left in the venue.

08/03/2024​

• Renderer: variable occupancy tables and areas can now be selected with one click if their min occupancy is equal to the capacity, to reduce unnecessary clicks.

05/03/2024​

• Added support for variable occupancy tables: tables on which a number of places (as opposed to individual seats) can be selected between a minimum and the table capacity

04/03/2024​

• Renderer: improved translations in Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian

01/03/2024​

• API: bugfix in request validation when booking held places on variable occupancy areas

29/02/2024​

• API: better request validation when changing status of area places

28/02/2024​

• Renderer: Added objectIcon support to the Event Manager: Static & Select modes.
• Renderer: Improved contrast of unavailable objects with icons.

27/02/2024​

• Renderer: Improved contrast of unavailable objects with icons.

21/02/2024​

• Renderer: Category filter can now be sorted by name or price highest to lowest.

21/02/2024​

• added company setting to prevent public hold token creation

16/02/2024​

• designer: charts with large background images don't appear to have unpublished changes anymore when opening them in the designer

15/02/2024​

• Designer: German translations fixes

14/02/2024​

• Renderer: New errorColor parameter for the colors config parameter, affects orphan seat validator color and error color in the tooltip.

13/02/2024​

• API: bug fix: focal point validation now works properly for multi-floor charts

12/02/2024​

• API: event summary reports never report more booked or not for sale places than the capacity of an area
• API: webhook messages now include a type

09/02/2024​

• Renderer: Slightly increased padding for table labels.
• Designer: Easier to find the "Manage categories", and easier to click validators, within the chart inspector.

05/02/2024​

• Renderer: New Prompts API to build custom modal dialogs for places or ticket type selection.
• Renderer: Deprecated selectObjects. Use doSelectObjects or trySelectObjects instead.
• Renderer: Fixed bevel thickness of shapes in the multi-floor view for small charts.

02/02/2024​

• web app: you can view your invoices without leaving app.seats.io

31/01/2024​

• Renderer & Designer: Larger table labels on bigger table shapes.

29/01/2024​

• renderer: categories in the category filter can use the order as defined in the designer, or can be sorted by price (the default setting)

26/01/2024​

• renderer: changeConfig supports setting the filteredCategories to null

25/01/2024​

• API: switched EU server from Heroku (AWS) to Google Cloud. New IP: 34.102.211.90. Refer to our cURL in PHP docs if you're having issues as a cURL/PHP user.
• renderer: stricter validation on the parameters of chart.selectObjects(), chart.deselectObjects(), chart.pulse(), chart.unpulse() and chart.setHighlightObjects()

23/01/2024​

• Fixed label contrast for buttons affected by colorSelected

18/01/2024​

• API: we now expose an event log

16/01/2024​

• Renderer: Added new setting hideSectionsNotForSale to hide sections where all objects are marked as not for sale.

16/01/2024​

• Renderer: tweaked Turkish translations

15/01/2024​

• API: we now support webhooks as a beta feature.

12/01/2024​

• Webapp: added domain whitelist setting, to be able to prevent rendering charts on unwanted domains

26/12/2024​

• Renderer: Fixed bug that made it difficult to see the "deselect" button on a mobile tooltip.

20/12/2024​

• Renderer: automatically regenerate a new hold token at rendering time, if the previous hold token is expired
• Renderer: programatic selection now works properly with variable occupancy areas
• Event Manager: added ability to hide channel from Event Manager tooltip in select mode (showChannel: false)

14/12/2024​

• Renderer: setting "availableObjectColor" is now used for category filter and legend items.
• Event Manager: Fixed an issue where channel assignment would cause an error under certain conditions.

14/12/2023​

• Designer: Images whose names contain special characters such as ü or ø can be uploaded.

11/12/2023​

• Renderer: New colors configuration parameters to set the primary color of available and selected objects.
• Designer: Drafts can now be discarded from the designer.

23/11/2023​

• Web app: Events can be searched for by name.

22/11/2023​

• Designer: no longer auto-focusing the "Caption" field of a Text object when selecting it, so that hotkeys and shortcuts can still be used on the object itself.

21/11/2023​

• Web app: Event names can now be edited directly in the web app, and are displayed if present.

20/11/2023​

• Renderer: Added new method chart.zoomToObjects to allow zooming to objects based on their labels.

14/11/2023​

• API: improved performance when changing object status on events with many objects not for sale, or many objects with an overridden category for the event

13/11/2023​

• Renderer: events in a season can now be used as event group
• Web app: company admins can stop the automatic renewal of their subscription

08/11/2023​

• API: we return a list of partial seasons an event belongs to when retrieving that event

07/11/2023​

• Customer awareness: emails are sent to notify of automatic subscription renewal 1 month before the renewal.

06/11/2023​

• Renderer Print mode: now displaying seat labels and icons from farther zoom levels.

03/11/2023​

• Event Manager: support selectableObjects in Select Mode

27/10/2023​

• API: objects that are booked for a season can be released for specific events. Useful when a season ticket holder indicates he's not attending an event, and you want to re-sell that place.

25/10/2023​

• Renderer: unavailable bookable tables are now dimmer when against colorful backgrounds, to ensure they don't steal users attention from the available tables.
• renderer: we now allow rendering a chart for multiple events (i.e. an event group) that contain channels

23/10/2023​

• Renderer: Increased contrast for object shapes and labels when the chosen color has poor contrast against the color scheme background.
• Renderer: Deeper fills for object shapes, including seats, sections, booths, areas and tables.

20/10/2023​

• web app: we now indicate when a subscription will end
• renderer bug fix: Better object selection on mobile when tapping close to multiple objects.

17/10/2023​

• web app: added link to billing portal
• web app/API: events in season can be marked as "in the past". Bookings on events in the past don't play a role on the season level anymore.
• renderer: improved navigation of multi-floor charts on mobile

16/10/2023​

• API: for sale config can be passed in when creating an event or a season
• API: made "from workspace" explicit in call that copies a chart from one workspace to another

13/10/2023​

• webapp: indicated that usage report doesn't get updated in real-time
• event manager: in manage object statuses mode, we now show a tooltip when hovering a seat or a table with an exclamation mark. Meaning: the table was booked, but then the user switched it to book-by-seat (or vice-versa).

09/10/2023​

• renderer: floor names can be translated through the messages parameter
• renderer: improved section appearance when zoomed out a lot
• designer: bug fix: first floor on multi-floor charts didn't get a proper name, so setting activeFloor: "1" failed

22/09/2023​

• designer: undo/redo now works properly on multi-floor charts
• renderer: no more error in the console when deselecting and selecting places in an area, with sessions enabled

21/09/2023​

• bugfix for failing category color validation when updating event categories, and the chart has custom category colors
• API: when creating a category via the API without specifying a color, we now default to colors from our updated palettes.
• API: concurrent API calls cannot create events with duplicate keys anymore. Existing duplicates have been renamed to <original key>_DUPLICATE

19/09/2023​

• renderer: zoom level doesn't change when resizing a chart embed

15/09/2023​

• renderer & event manager: performance improvements when loading large charts

14/09/2023​

• event manager: when hovering a section, we now show the number of available places
• chart manager: this tool is now deprecated. You cannot use it anymore
• API: passing in a social distancing ruleset when creating or updating an event has no effect
• renderer: bug fix: zooming in to a section on mobile sometimes took too many taps
• renderer: bug fix: resizing a chart broke navigation in some cases
• renderer: bug fix: when selecting places in a fixed-occupancy area, rogue deselection and selection events were emitted

11/09/2023​

• app.seats.io: dropped support for Social Distancing ruleset creation and editing

11/09/2023​

• Renderer: section borders are now less prominent

06/09/2023​

• Renderer: zooming to sections on more zoom levels instead of contents when showing section contents.

04/09/2023​

• event manager: changed icon for seats with a custom status, to make it more distinct from booked seats
• event manager: tweaked styling for booths and areas that are not for sale

25/08/2023​

• event manager: channel color can be changed through a color picker
• renderer: multi-floor charts with joined areas now render without errors

24/08/2023​

• API: channels can be passed in when creating an event
• API: we only return status changes from the last 365 days
• event manager: manageCategoriesMode and manageChannelsMode now support the unavailableObjectSelectable flag
• event manager: total number of places is shown when hovering an area
• designer: reference chart calibration wizard indicates at least 4 seats are needed

23/08/2023​

• SDK for go is now available: https://github.com/seatsio/seatsio-go

16/08/2023​

• renderer: sections with available objects have a slight tint, so ticket buyers can see there's availability
• renderer: tweaked table appearance
• designer: bug fix: rotated booths within sections were shown in an incorrect position on the sections overview
• designer: bug fix: charts with joined areas within sections failed to load

19/07/2023​

• renderer: icons inside objects are now visible from a further zoom level
• renderer: bug fix: zooming to a section with only bookable tables or booths now works properly on small embeds

14/07/2023​

• event manager: you can now pass in defaults for the view settings (whether to show seat/row labels or not, or displaying the channel colors)
• designer: validation dialogs now show the proper floor name if they're not simply called 1/2/3...

11/07/2023​

• renderer: take objectColor into account for seats that are disabled and have an icon on the new appearance
• designer: fix for designer becoming unresponsive when looking for unlabeled section on different floor

30/06/2023​

• renderer: improved loading time by making charts smaller
• started to deprecate social distancing. It's not documented anymore.

29/06/2023​

• designer: Fixed crash when undoing right after adding a floor.
• renderer: No longer showing floating section labels when zooming in on charts with section contents hidden.
• renderer: Floating section labels are shown only when zoomed out quite a lot on chart with section contents shown.
• renderer: Reduced load times when not using objectIcon.

22/06/2023​

• API: chart reports now return isAccessible, isCompanionSeat and hasRestrictedView fields for seats

20/06/2023​

• API: status changes for areas with many holds are now much faster
• renderer: chart.resetView() works properly when zoomed in to a floor on a multi-floor chart
• event manager: added unavailableObjectsSelectable flag
• Seats.io iframe now has a default title attribute

13/06/2023​

• API: made pushing real-time status updates faster under heavy load

06/06/2023​

• renderer: fix for zooming issue where the tooltip was shown on some booths, but not others, even though they were of similar size
• renderer and event manager: various improvements to optimize loading speed and bundle size
• renderer: fix for stroke drawing glitch on mouseOut
• designer: higher contrast for uncategorized objects, when on dark canvas appearance
• renderer and event manager: fix for issue where chart loading can fail before translation strings are ready

25/05/2023​

• renderer: fix for a resource loading issue that, under certain conditions, caused floor plans to not load on Android/Chrome

25/05/2023​

• API: added call to completely replace the channels on an event (including the assigned objects)
• API: deprecated /events/{eventKey}/channels/assign-objects. Use /events/{eventKey}/channels/replace instead.

24/05/2023​

• renderer: Improved performance, by pre-compiling json validation schemas
• renderer: removed obsolete polyfills to reduce bundle size
• renderer: tweak zoom threshold that classifies a seat as not clickable

15/05/2023​

• renderer: Pulsing seats now work on unavailable seats as well.
• designer: Fixed typos in German translation.
• designer: Fixed appearance of the New/Create buttons on the Floor and Categories dialogs.

09/05/2023​

• renderer: Don't clear selection when chart.changeConfig() is called with maxSelectedObjects

08/05/2023​

• renderer: Fix an issue where the tooltip would not show the correct seat labels, when using numberOfPlacesToSelect
• renderer: make chart.changeConfig() work with maxSelectedObjects again
• renderer: Show tooltip with the full floor name when hovering the elevator on multi-floor charts

04/05/2023​

• renderer: Show scroll hint to indicate more ticket types if ticket modal dialog doesn't fit all ticket types.
• designer & renderer: Allow translucent areas to be used together with custom background images.
• designer: Fix an issue where the designer would crash if an image was selected with the rectangle select tool.
• renderer: Allow maxSelectedObjects for both categories and ticket types simultaneously

26/04/2023​

• renderer: Performance improvements for very large charts.
• designer & renderer: Join multiple areas into one.
• designer: Now showing a confirmation dialog before deleting a floor.
• event manager select mode: Added maxSelectedObjects and numberOfPlacesToSelect settings.
• designer & renderer: Improved legibility of Booth labels.
• renderer: Improved feedback when hovering one or multiple seats at once.

18/04/2023​

• designer/renderer: floors can be renamed, if the default names (1, 2, 3 etc) don't make sense for a venue
• designer: pressing home, end pageup or pagedown doesn't cause the canvas to scroll anymore
• renderer: chart is now positioned correctly when the legend is enabled

17/04/2023​

• renderer: fixed issue with chart repositioning when resizing embed with the Category Filter enabled.

4/04/2023​

• event manager: Not For Sale and Booked statuses now visible from farther away in EM Statuses and EM For Sale modes.
• designer: now supports the new appearance.

29/03/2023​

• renderer: now able to display event-level defined categories.

21/03/2023​

• event manager: new tooltipContents setting for Select and Static modes, to allow replacing the tooltip with BBCode text.
• renderer: patched issue on some browsers where using color-scheme can lead to the chart iframe to have an unintended background.

16/03/2023​

• renderer: retain zoom and pan when chart size changes.
• renderer: Increase size of seat icons and disabled table seats.
• renderer: Added new setting showSeatLabels to allow showing seat labels on charts.

06/03/2023​

• renderer: zoom in further on mobile for small charts
• designer: holding down shift while moving objects snaps to a 45° angle

02/03/2023​

• web app: searching for status changes is much faster (for exact matches)

28/02/2023​

• API: we now make a distinction between calls in the priority lane and in the regular lane. Priority lane calls are typically used during ticket sales (changing object status, creating a hold token...). They have a higher rate limit than regular calls.

24/02/2023​

• event manager: setHighlightedObjects and clearHighlightedObjects for select and static modes.
• Backend: more fine-grained rate limiting. Some endpoints (Reporting endpoints and endpoint to fetch the status changes log) have a stricter rate limit, to free up capacity for endpoints that are used for ticket sales.

17/02/2023​

• event manager & renderer: fix for maximum call stack size exceeded, when calculating font size for icons on very small objects

17/02/2023​

• event manager: select and static mode support onObjectMouseOver and onObjectMouseOut
• designer: holding down shift while rotating snaps to multiples of 15°

15/02/2023​

• renderer: created Vue wrapper: https://github.com/seatsio/seatsio-vue

10/02/2023​

• event manager: improved seat appearance in new design of manageForSaleConfigMode
• API: allow adding multiple channels at once

08/02/2023​

• API: reporting calls on events in seasons with channels are much faster now

07/02/2023​

• designer: when creating categories, their default colors are determined in a predictable way for every chart (instead of assigning a random color)
• fixed issue with emails (signup, password reset, pricing plan change) not getting sent

03/02/2023​

• API: reporting calls now have a lower rate limit than other ones
• webapp: new design is used for all seating charts on app.seats.io

31/01/2023​

• new customers get the new renderer design. Existing customers have until June to test.

27/01/2023​

• event manager: made object search much faster on large charts

26/01/2023​

• event manager: manageObjectStatusesMode supports sessions, to hold places when they're selected

10/01/2023​

• designer/API: added "no objects" chart validator, to avoid accidentally publishing charts without bookable objects
• renderer: added chart.zoomToSection() method

08/12/2022​

• API: general admission algorithm tries to keep as many people from a group together, if they don't fit on the same table or row
• renderer: bug fix: consecutive seats selection validator does not get triggered for areas, booths or tables

07/12/2022​

• designer: shapes are not required to have a stroke
• renderer: added validator on minimal number of selected places
• renderer: bug fix: strokes on polygonal shapes behave the same as strokes on rectangular or circular objects

29/11/2022​

• renderer: section tooltips show multiple categories, when objects within a section belong to more than one category

21/11/2022​

• renderer: we now show a proper tooltip when tapping on an area, when maxSelectedObjects has been reached

14/11/2022​

• designer allows labelling multiple areas at once
• event manager: manage categories mode shows the number of places assigned to each category

09/11/2022​

• API: fixed occasional delays when releasing many temporarily held objects at the same time

08/11/2022​

• event manager/API: events in season can override channels assigned on the season level
• renderer: made minimap tighter. It now has the shape of the drawing instead of the embed shape.

24/10/2022​

• designer: when holding 'w', the reference image moves to the foreground. Useful to read seat labels on the reference image when they overlap with drawn seats
• renderer: fixed tooltip positioning when legend is shown

14/10/2022​

• event manager: manageForSaleConfigMode allows opening for sale configs that are set to forSale = true again

13/10/2022​

• renderer: category filter shows only prices, not category names on mobile
• designer: added hotkey to hide polygon side handles while adding nodes

10/10/2022​

• places in general admission areas can be marked as not for sale (if you don't want to mark the whole area as not for sale)

30/09/2022​

• API: bug fix: new events created in a season inherit the channels from the season
• event manager: fixed tooltips in manage channels mode, when opening a partial season

15/09/2022​

• designer: added safe mode, which prevents changes that might effect bookings in events (e.g. changing the label of a seat)

14/09/2022​

• API: fixed error when changing object status on areas in partial seasons without events

14/09/2022​

• renderer/event manager: fix for weird characters that sometimes would appear instead of the button icons (on Chrome)
• API: usage report for seasons with many places not for sale is now much faster

13/09/2022​

• designer: new canvasColorScheme parameter, to force light or dark mode

08/09/2022​

• designer: added dark mode, to help designing charts for dark websites
• renderer: made pinch-to-zoom and scroll-to-zoom speeds consistent across browsers

02/09/2022​

• renderer: onObjectStatusChanged doesn't slow down rendering large charts anymore
• event manager: bug fix: manage categories mode can cope with deleted objects

30/08/2022​

• event manager: fixed tooltip not being shown for objects with custom event category but no chart category

24/08/2022​

• API: errors on the NA, SA or OC servers now contain the request ID

28/07/2022​

• renderer/event manager: bugfix: mouse pointer is not a hand anymore when hovering a non-selectable seat at a selectable table
• renderer/event manager: performance improvement when hovering very large charts

28/07/2022​

• renderer/event manager: removed slight delay when clicking on an object or section. Interactions should feel snappier now.
• renderer/event manager: double-clicking a seat selects it. Double-clicking again deselects.

22/07/2022​

• designer: clarified label orientation control, which is shown for vertical rows
• renderer: fixed error when passing in a container that has circular references in its fields
• renderer: when zooming in on a chart with only areas, we now make them big enough to be comfortably selectable
• renderer: bug fix: objects keep pulsing instead of doing that only once when calling object.pulse()

15/07/2022​

• renderer: performance improvements for large charts

12/07/2022​

• API: for new accounts, event reports contain table places instead of the tables themselves (even if the tables are bookable as a whole)
• event manager: new manageChannelsList flag, to indicate whether the list of channels should be editable in manageChannelsMode

08/07/2022​

• renderer: warning when using strings as prices. You should use numbers instead
• renderer: added object.isInChannel() method for callbacks executed within the renderer iFrame (such as objectColor and objectIcon)

01/07/2022​

• API: bug fix: when an event is deleted from the season, its bookings are deleted as well
• event manager: bug fix: event manager now loads correctly when onObjectStatusChanged is passed in

29/06/2022​

• designer: when loading an image fails, you have the option to delete it from the chart
• event manager: manage channels mode loads much faster when there are a lot (50+) of channels

27/06/2022​

• API: event reports take current capacity of area into account to determine the status. If the number of booked places is lower than the capacity, the reports return 'free' as status - even if the capacity was increased when the area was fully booked.
• renderer: bug fix: icon is shown for shapes, even if they don't have a caption

24/06/2022​

• web app: on the event details page, we now show the sales progress bar even if all places are booked (or when there are no places on the chart)
• API: event reports contain the number of seats at a table

09/06/2022​

• event manager: objects have a channel property (if they are assigned to a channel)

08/06/2022​

• renderer/designer: areas can now have a View From Your Seat image
• API: added calls to manage channels (add channel, remove channel, add objects, remove objects)

03/06/2022​

• renderer: changed 'close' to 'done' in the ticket selector for areas, to make it clear the user is confirming his selection
• API: improved performance of /mark-as-not-for-sale and /mark-as-for-sale calls, when passing in the same configuration that was already applied to the event

31/05/2022​

• API: when changing object status, status changes are created asynchronously. That means there's a slight delay between the completion of the status change call, and the moment /status-changes lists the status change(s).
• API: non-paying accounts now have an API call rate limit that's 10 times smaller than paid accounts.
• renderer: we automatically set object-fit: fill on the chart iFrame, to work around a rendering issue in Webkit (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240333).

24/05/2022​

• designer: we now support uploading big PDFs as reference images

20/05/2022​

• API: when retrieving an event, we return the categories defined on the chart of the event

06/05/2022​

• renderer/event manager: bug fix: only objects from current floor get selected when multi-selecting on a multi-floor chart
• renderer: bug fix: never draw labels of objects within sections when section contents not yet visible
• renderer: improved rendering performance for charts with many channels

03/05/2022​

• renderer: bug fix: onSelectionValid and onSelectionInvalid are not fired anymore in spotlight mode

02/05/2022​

• renderer: added chart.onObjectStatusChanged() callback

22/04/2022​

• renderer: bug fix: no more 'Maximum call stack size exceeded' error when closing the category filter on mobile, when zoomOnSelect is enabled.

20/04/2022​

• renderer: bug fix: chart.startNewSession() now works properly even if there are selected objects

01/04/2022​

• renderer: fixed "could not get canvas context..." error that sometimes occurred on iOS
• renderer: when using the back or forward buttons on iOS, we now trigger a rerendering of the chart. We also deselect any previously selected objects. This fixes a bunch of issues when browsers on iOS show a page from the back/forward cache: realtime updates not coming through, object statuses out of date, session token that might have expired...

28/03/2022​

• renderer: made multi-select faster on big charts
• renderer: color of 'start over' button in session expired dialog can now be customized
• API: events have an optional name and date

25/03/2022​

• web app: bug fix: "show labels" checkboxes were not working on chart preview page in Chrome and Edge

23/03/2022​

• renderer: orphan seat detection for tables now works exactly the same as for rows. If you're forced to leave an empty seat (e.g. because the event is almost sold out), we don't consider that seat an orphan.
• API: fixed bug which made it impossible to book held objects on an event in a season (and on the season itself)

22/03/2022​

• web app: you can now create and manage seasons from within the app
• event manager: tooltip is configurable in select and static mode
• event manager/renderer: selecting many objects is now much faster

16/03/2022​

• API: moved seasons out of beta

15/03/2022​

• renderer: various improvements to spotlight mode
• API: call that creates events in season returns the newly created events instead of the whole season

11/03/2022​

• API: added endpoints to add categories to and remove categories from a chart
• event manager: section tooltip shows number of objects not for sale in manageForSaleConfigMode
• event manager: 'show channel colors' menu option is hidden when passing in an objectColor callback

08/03/2022​

• renderer: bug fix: labels on tables bookable by seat are visible again
• renderer: bug fix: on Chrome 99, some modal dialogs (and multi-floor charts) weren't displayed properly if the parent page specified a perspective in CSS

07/03/2022​

• event manager indicates when table that's bookable by seat is itself booked (or when a table that's bookable by table has booked seats)
• API: clarified error message when passing in the same seat label multiple times in a status change call

01/03/2022​

• webapp: events in seasons are grouped by season in the navigation menu of the chart detail page

28/02/2022​

• event manager: added a search function to find objects on the chart
• webapp: improved filtering options in status changes list

24/02/2022​

• API: status changes indicate why an object is not present on the chart anymore
• API: added fields on events: isTopLevelSeason, isPartialSeason, isEventInSeason and topLevelSeasonKey
• renderer: selected objects aura is shown less often - only at a zoom level at which seats become really small

23/02/2022​

• event manager now supports a ticketTypes parameter, to let admin users choose between ticket types when clicking on an object
• you can now invite a user from a different region to your team

18/02/2022​

• designer: improved reference chart calibration wizard

17/02/2022​

• designer: added feature flag to disable the "bookable as a whole" checkbox
• designer: made "cannot paste contents here" message more clear

16/02/2022​

• API: added seasons functionality

14/02/2022​

• renderer: added inertia to improve the panning experience, especially on mobile
• event manager: added flag to show the technical label of an object in the tooltips
• API: status changes call now returns the technical object label and a flag that indicates whether an object is still present on the chart

10/02/2022​

• designer: when calibrating a reference image, you can now scale down to as much as 25%. Mostly useful when uploading a PDF.
• designer: made drawing vertical and horizontal rows easier + various improvements to how snapping works

08/02/2022​

• designer: you can now use PDFs as reference images
• event manager: added flag to hide order ID in tooltips
• webapp: fixed 'show row labels' button for chart preview

01/02/2022​

• API: chart summary reports now take an optional bookWholeTables parameter
• designer: changed block of rows tool. It's now possible to draw a block of rows in any direction, instead of only horizontally.

31/01/2022​

• API: added chart summary reports

28/01/2022​

• event manager: bug fix: showing row labels now works properly on charts with sections

27/01/2022​

• event manager: in select mode and static mode, it's now possible to switch between channel colors and category colors
• designer: improved snapping

25/01/2022​

• web app: event details page now indicates how many places are unavailable, and the reason why (booked, held, not for sale, disabled by social distancing rules...)

18/01/2022​

• API: saving channels that have the same name except for leading or trailing spaces is not allowed anymore
• renderer: fixed tooltip that's shown when hovering a disabled seat in a fixed social distancing ruleset

17/01/2022​

• renderer: on multi-floor charts, shape and section outlines from lower floors are shown when looking at a higher floor. This means the stage or pitch is visible from every floor, making orientation easier for ticket buyers.
• designer: bug fix: chart preview works again

07/01/2022​

• designer: various improvements, including a new category tool

16/12/2021​

• API: added reports byAvailabilityReason

15/12/2021​

• API: deprecated reports bySelectability in favour of byAvailability
• API: deprecated isSelectable property in favour of isAvailable

13/12/2021​

• API: status change calls now support lists of allowedPreviousStatuses or rejectedPreviousStatuses
• event manager supports extraConfig
• renderer: bug fix: originalPrice is shown on tooltips for areas
• renderer: bug fix: charts don't become blurred anymore when display scaling is set to something else than 100% on Windows
• designer: bug fix: category key is not editable anymore when the categoryList feature is set to disabled or read-only

08/12/2021​

• renderer: bug fix: when resizing a chart (e.g. after clicking the full-screen button) seats within sections would sometimes not be visible
• event manager: added selectionBy parameter for select mode, to choose between selecting whole areas or places within areas

06/12/2021​

• renderer: you can now pass in an originalPrice, which is shown as a discount in tooltips
• renderer: fixed bug in Italian translations

02/12/2021​

• designer: for multi-floor charts, you can now choose between "view from stage" or "isometric view"
• event manager: static mode now supports the events parameter
• event manager: static, select and manageForSaleConfig modes now show the number of booked places in an area on hover
• renderer: bug fix: area labels disappeared on hover in some cases

01/12/2021​

• renderer: for new customers, extra data on objects is not accessible in renderer callbacks anymore (since extra data can contain sensitive data such as names or email addresses). The event manager callbacks can still use extra data though.
• event manager: in select mode, users can now select places up to the capacity of an area. We don't take booked places into account anymore.
• renderer: fixed translation of 'seat' in Italian

19/11/2021​

• event manager: added static mode
• renderer: users can now (somewhat) rotate multi-floor charts
• renderer: bug fix: shape labels now respect the messages parameter again

15/11/2021​

• renderer: onFloorChanged now receives a Floor object instead of just the floor name
• renderer: chart.destroy() works properly when the container DOM element is already removed

09/11/2021​

• renderer: ticket type selection modal now indicates whether a seat is accessible or has obstructed view
• event manager: select mode now supports multiple events

05/11/2021​

• event manager: bug fix: in select mode, objects assigned to a channel are now shown greyed-out
• renderer: improved performance on charts with lots of seats and no sections
• renderer: more user-friendly zoom-out animation on charts with sections

29/10/2021​

• event manager: order ID is now shown in tooltip
• renderer: added category.hasSelectableObjects property

27/10/2021​

• designer: capacity of charts is limited to 200.000 places

25/10/2021​

• designer: row labels are now optional, so you can create seats that are only identified by their seat label (1, 2, 3... instead of A-1, A-2, A-3...)

15/10/2021​

• event manager: added buttons to show row and seat labels
• event manager: objects assigned to a channel are shown greyed-out

12/10/2021​

• web app: company-level expiration time of hold tokens can now be overridden per workspace
• renderer: added parameter that sets the active floor when rendering a multi-floor chart
• renderer: added onFloorChanged callback, which gets triggered when the user switches floors
• renderer: added spacing between long ticket type and price in ticket type selector
• renderer: bug fix: multi-floor charts now resize properly again

07/10/2021​

• renderer: bug fix: chart.zoomToSelectedObjects() does not switch to the first floor of a multi-floor chart when no objects have been selected

06/10/2021​

• renderer: + and - buttons in ticket type selector for general admission areas never fall out of the dialog, even when the ticket types are long

04/10/2021​

• event manager: manage channels mode now shows which seats have been disabled by social distancing, just like the other modes

30/09/2021​

• event manager: held seats and seats with a custom status are now displayed with a different icon than booked seats
• API: event reports now indicate whether GAs and booths are disabled by social distancing rules (which we already did for seats)

28/09/2021​

• API: added call to retrieve information about objects for an event
• renderer: bug fix: chart would become blurred when panning in some cases
• event manager: improved contrast between available and unavailable (e.g. booked) objects

23/09/2021​

• designer: generalAdmissionAreas feature is now called areas in the list of features to disable. generalAdmissionAreas still works for backwards compatibility.
• designer: made distinction between section/floor-based charts and non-section-based charts clearer when creating a new chart
• renderer: bug fix: texts drawn on top of seats don't disappear after hovering
• renderer: bug fix: tooltips on mobile never go out of bounds when legend is shown

21/09/2021​

• renderer: made panning smoother
• renderer: bug fix: changes in available and unavailable categories are now properly visible on the chart

17/09/2021​

• event manager: added 'select' mode, in which the user can select seats, but there's no action button. Use this mode when you want to build your own UI.
• event manager: tooltip shows the exact seat status, instead of only booked or free
• designer: bug fix: icons feature can now be disabled (as was already documented)

15/09/2021​

• event manager: improved icons and tooltips + category color is now still visible for booked seats
• renderer: bug fix: in spotlight mode, all objects except the select ones are greyed out when the select objects aura is shown

10/09/2021​

• event manager: bug fix: no more social distancing warning when releasing seats in manageObjectStatusesMode
• renderer: performance improvements

09/09/2021​

• renderer: chart now zooms out when switching floors on multi-floor charts

01/09/2021​

• renderer: new spotlight mode to highlight seats or other objects
• renderer: bug fix: objectLabel now works properly for tables

31/08/2021​

• renderer: created React Native wrapper: https://github.com/seatsio/seatsio-react-native

19/08/2021​

• renderer/event manager/designer: added container parameter, to pass in a DOM element instead of a divId string
• renderer/event manager/designer: we now support rendering in the shadow DOM, so you're able to create a web component around the chart

16/08/2021​

• API: for sale configs for events in season get merged. If seat A-1 is not for sale in one event, and A-2 in another, both those seats are not for sale for the season.

04/08/2021​

• event manager: dialogs now work again in latest Chrome version (v92)
• web app: account activation links never expire

02/07/2021​

• renderer: removed "powered by seats.io" logo on watermarked charts (i.e. free accounts)

01/07/2021​

• API/renderer: social distancing ruleset that disables seats in front and behind now works properly on curved or segmented rows

28/06/2021​

• API: improved performance of booking calls when the event has a social distancing ruleset that disables seats on nearby rows
• webapp: showing object labels in chart preview now works properly on charts with tables

23/06/2021​

• renderer/event manager: multi-select now works on mobile

21/06/2021​

• API: improved performance of booking calls when the event has a social distancing ruleset that disables seats to the sides

14/06/2021​

• designer: bug fix: category color picker is shown on top of background image control, instead of underneath
• renderer: bug fix: rounded rectangles with a very large corner radius are now rendered properly

10/06/2021​

• API/renderer: on rectangular tables with seats on just one side, the first and last seats are not considered neighbours for social distancing or best available purposes
• designer: bug fix: it's now possible to choose a shape type on Firefox

09/06/2021​

• event manager: bug fix: objects could not be selected on mobile

07/06/2021​

• renderer: bug fix: when invoking chart.listSelectedObjects(), selectedTicketType now contains the proper ticket type for GAs (instead of always the last selected one)

03/06/2021​

• renderer: added report by selectability
• event manager: error messages can now get translated

02/06/2021​

• API: added ids property on reports, which contains the technical labels of the object, its parent row or table, and its section.
• API: bug fix: labels property in reports now contains the displayed section label instead of the technical label
• renderer: bug fix: when the 'session expired' dialog is shown, resizing the chart does not cause the dialog to close

26/05/2021​

• renderer: bug fix: tooltipInfo wasn't formatting text properly (e.g. bold or italic)

25/05/2021​

• renderer: bug fix: category filter is visible again on small screens

19/05/2021​

• renderer: added onFilteredCategoriesChanged callback
• renderer: bug fix: on mobile, ticket buyers were not able to select seats marked as orphan

17/05/2021​

• API: new accounts have a rate limit of 100 concurrent requests: https://docs.seats.io/docs/api/rate-limit
• webapp: inactive workspaces are shown separately from the active ones
• renderer: bug fix: chart.resetView() now zooms all the way out on multi-floor charts

12/05/2021​

• designer: bug fix: category color picker was shown behind the category list when there were many categories
• event manager: tweaked tooltip for manageChannels mode

11/05/2021​

• API: added calls to fetch active or inactive workspaces

07/05/2021​

• designer: uploaded images are now shrunk to 2048x2048 (if they were bigger than that)
• event manager: bug fix: number of places assigned to channel doesn't include deleted objects

06/05/2021​

• designer: added "fixed occupancy" and "variable occupancy" areas: they have a capacity (just like a general admission area), but can be booked by a single ticket buyer.
• API: improved performance of calls that change object status
• renderer: fixed bug in tooltip on leaf preset

04/05/2021​

• renderer: new and improved tooltip layout
• API: hold token IDs are now much shorter, to be able to store them more efficiently. This is enabled by default for new signups. If you're an existing customer, we recommend you enable this setting as well: https://app.seats.io/company-settings
• event manager now shows the number of places assigned to a channel

26/04/2021​

• API: event and chart reports contain the distance to the focal point for each object

23/04/2021​

• renderer: add support for Nunito Sans font
• API: added chart and event reports by object type

21/04/2021​

• API: improved performance of chart and event reporting calls (especially for large charts)
• designer: improved row labeling UI

15/04/2021​

• API: improved performance of calls that book multiple GA places
• API: improved performance of reporting call, when many places in a GA area are held

07/04/2021​

• renderer: added object.isInChannel() method

02/04/2021​

• renderer: numberOfPlacesToSelect now works properly for GAs that are bookable as a whole
• renderer: no more console warning when using the category filter
• API: best available algorithm selects multiple blocks of seats, if the event has a fixed social distancing ruleset, and a single block doesn't fit the request. E.g. if 4 best available seats are requested, the algorithm now finds 2 blocks of 2 seats.

30/03/2021​

• API: performance enhancements when changing object status for events with many seats not for sale, or many seats in channels
• API: chart reports expose bookAsAWhole flag for tables
• renderer: exposed bookAsAWhole property on GAs

30/03/2021​

• renderer: chart functions such as chart.findObject now return a promise, so there's no need to pass in callbacks
• renderer: calling changeConfig on an invisible chart in Firefox doesn't lead to an error anymore
• event manager: when managing object statuses, seats disabled by social distancing within a channel are shown properly

24/03/2021​

• renderer: big charts (1000s of places) with many booked seats load faster
• renderer: maxSelectedObjects per ticket type now plays nicely with GAs that are bookable as a whole

19/03/2021​

• renderer: performance improvements for large events with social distancing enabled
• event manager: objectColor() can now be passed in
• website: added media kit

12/03/2021​

• new signups can choose the region in which they would like to store their data. Currently supported regions are Europe, North America, South America and Oceania.

11/03/2021​

• designer: bug fix: background image was counted twice when calculating total image size

04/03/2021​

• renderer: new parameter showSectionContents. Can be set to auto, always and onlyAfterZoom
• designer: tweaked reference chart calibration wizard
• webapp: bug fix: on Windows, some dropdowns (e.g. the one to select a social distancing ruleset) contained invisible text.

20/02/2021​

• renderer: chart.selectObjects() and chart.deselectObjects() now play nice with group selection. E.g. if you pass in numberOfPlacesToSelect: 5 to the chart, chart.selectObjects(['A-1']) will select 5 seats.

12/02/2021​

• renderer: maxSelectedObjects now supports a combination of categories/ticket types AND a max total
• API: best available algorithm prefers selecting a single bookable GA instead of multiple
• web app: chart preview page now contains checkboxes to show row, seat and other object labels

10/02/2021​

• designer: bug fix: smoothening a selection of segmented and straight rows resulted in an error.
• API: bug fix: best available algorithm doesn't select partial GAs that are bookable as a whole anymore

09/02/2021​

• designer: you can now set the seat count for a row. This changes the number of seats without changing the row length (in pixels).

29/01/2021​

• event manager: manageObjectStatuses mode now supports multiple events

27/01/2021​

• renderer: seat, table and booth labels now have the same size as in the designer
• API: chart and event reports now contain the bookAsAWhole flag for GAs

11/01/2021​

• designer: row drawing tool works by click-dragging (in addition to click-move-click)

07/01/2021​

• renderer: added a subtle seat hover/highlight scale effect

06/01/2021​

• renderer: new onSessioninitialized event gets fired when a session is started or continued (docs).

04/01/2021​

• API: fix for race condition, which caused the best available call to return an error 500 in some cases

29/12/2020​

• designer: reference chart wizard now supports curved rows

28/12/2020​

• API: added deep summary event reports

21/12/2020​

• designer: sides of polygons can now be dragged

11/12/2020​

• API: added ignoreSocialDistancing flag to status change calls

09/12/2020​

• designer: segmented rows can be smoothened

04/12/2020​

• renderer: GAs that are bookable as a whole now respect maxSelectedObjects

25/11/2020​

• designer: new tool, to draw rows consisting of multiple segments
• renderer: added inputDevice parameter, to force the chart to be rendered in touch mode
• event manager: GA areas that are bookable as a whole can now be booked with one click in the event manager

23/11/2020​

• renderer: bug fix: in events with a social distancing ruleset, the leftmost and rightmost seats within a category are never considered orphans. This fixes a bug, causing a companion seat to not be selectable, if it had a different category than the accessible seat next to it.
• renderer: if maxSelectedObjects is set per ticket type or per category on an event with a fixed ruleset, the maxSelectedObjects is ignored. All objects are selectable.
• designer: we now prevent drawing tables without seats, or GA areas with a capacity of 0.
• designer: added mode parameter, to render the designer read-only

17/11/2020​

• web app: some renderer features can now be disabled or enabled from the company settings page (https://app.seats.io/company-settings). As of now: multi-select and whether to show the fullscreen button.
• renderer: charts with a legend and a custom font (configured through the style parameter) now always zoom in properly to a section.
• designer: outline of rows within a section takes row labels into account.

16/11/2020​

• renderer: multi-select now plays nicely with social distancing
• renderer/event manager: tweaked styling of buttons

13/11/2020​

• social distancing: added rule to enable or disable blocking diagonal seats on rows in front and behind. Up until now, this was enabled automagically when blocking 2 or more seats to the sides (with "disable seats in front and behind" enabled).
• renderer: improved look and feel of the category filter. Items feel more clickable now.

10/11/2020​

• API: best available algorithm tries to not leave people sitting alone
• renderer: added Kurdish language support
• renderer: tweaked styling of category filter

05/11/2020​

• renderer/event manager: layout fixes for right-to-left languages
• API: call that creates multiple events supports tableBookingConfig. tableBookingModes and bookWholeTables are now deprecated.

30/10/2020​

• renderer: added showSectionOverlayPricing parameter. When enabled, prices are shown on top of sections
• API: chart report supports bookWholeTables=chart, to use the table booking settings defined on the chart
• API: calls to create or update events support a tableBookingConfig. tableBookingModes and bookWholeTables are now deprecated.

29/10/2020​

• designer: tables can be made bookable as a whole from within the designer (so not only from within the event manager)
• renderer: improved multi-select performance when a social distancing ruleset is applied to the event

27/10/2020​

• renderer: capacity is shown for GAs that are bookable as a whole
• designer: prevent creation of very tiny polygons (which are most likely drawn by accident)
• event manager: multi-select can be used when manually disabling seats for social distancing

22/10/2020​

• designer/renderer: GA areas can be made "bookable as a whole", to force ticket buyers to select all places.
• renderer: new parameter selectableObjects, which is an array of object labels that should be selectable (even though their status is not 'free').

21/10/2020​

• renderer: for new signups, objects get deselected if holding them fails
• renderer: fixed chart.pulse()

20/10/2020​

• renderer: added support for ticket type descriptions

19/10/2020​

• social distancing: new "one group per table" rule. When enabled, all non-booked seats on a table are left empty.
• event manager: admin can book seats, even if they are disabled by social distancing rules.
• renderer: when tapping on a seat that's not selectable because it would leave orphans, nearby seats that are selectable start pulsing

13/10/2020​

• renderer: channels list accepts the special channel key NO_CHANNEL. If you pass in that key, objects that are not assigned to a channel become selectable.
• API: booking calls support NO_CHANNEL in their channels list
• renderer: changeConfig accepts a list of channels
• renderer: added legend.hideCategoryName flag to hide the category name in the legend (and only show pricing)
• renderer: clicking on a seat in multi-select mode selects that seat
• event manager: bug fix: number of remaining saves is properly updated in manageForSaleConfig mode

12/10/2020​

• renderer: bug fix: closed multi-select menu doesn't block interactions with the chart
• API: bug fix: held seats are never considered disabled by social distancing rules, when passing in the proper hold token when booking
• designer: bug fix: no error when curving a row with 1 seat

09/10/2020​

• designer: curving tool now spreads out seats evenly on their curve

07/10/2020​

• social distancing: new rule that limits the maximum occupancy for a venue (e.g. 'at most 50 people' or 'venue at most 30% filled'.

06/10/2020​

• event manager fires onSubmitSucceeded and onSubmitFailed events when saving
• renderer: made it clearer in tooltip when seat is left open for social distancing
• renderer/event manager: holding down shift switches to multi-select mode (when multiSelectEnabled: true)

03/10/2020​

• added event report byChannel

30/09/2020​

• chart manager: improved performance of manually disabling seats
• renderer: clearer object tooltip message when max selected objects has been reached

29/09/2020​

• chart manager: added button to duplicate a social distancing ruleset
• renderer: no hand cursor when hovering unselectable objects

23/09/2020​

• renderer/API: even when "disable seats front and behind" is set as a social distancing rule, groups can now sit on adjacent rows. This was not possible before.

21/09/2020​

• chart manager: social distancing ruleset key is now shown in the list of rulesets

18/09/2020​

• designer: seats and booths now support a displayed label
• renderer: fixed SecurityError that was thrown in Android WebView when DOM storage is not enabled

17/09/2020​

• renderer: improved Estonian translations

17/09/2020​

• designer: various performance improvements
• api: we now allow null as socialDistancingRulesetKey when updating an event

16/09/2020​

• designer: increased default row spacing
• designer: tables and rows now support a displayed label
• designer: Safari bug fix: the "take the 60 second tour" dialog is only shown the first time you open the designer

15/09/2020​

• renderer: moved minimap from top right to bottom right
• event manager: fixed dark mode styling of channels tool
• renderer: number of remaining places for GA is shown on mobile (if showAvailability: true)

02/09/2020​

• created TypeScript definitions for renderer, designer, event manager and chart manager: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/seatsio
• renderer: bug fix: socially distanced seats are shown properly after status changes

01/09/2020​

• social distancing: you can now choose between fixed and rule-based group layout. Fixed group layout means that you manually indicate which seats are left empty. When the ticket buyer clicks on a seat, all adjacent seats are selected.

31/08/2020​

• event manager now supports the fitTo parameter
• designer: bug fix: clicking to place the focal point didn't always work

19/08/2020​

• event manager & renderer: new selection tools for multiple seat selection. Enabled by default on the event manager, only enabled on renderer if multiSelectEnabled: true

17/08/2020​

• renderer: bug fix: social distancing + hiding full rows using isObjectVisible on a chart containing sections without a category would break rendering.

14/08/2020​

• event manager: bug fix: Objects not marked on Rulesets Editor enable/disable modes if some of the marked objects are deleted/renamed

12/08/2020​

• event manager: better help text, indicating what "Manually enable/disable seats" actually does
• renderer: bugfix: CategoryFilter legend menu no longer clickable when hidden

29/07/2020​

• API: best available call now supports ticket types
• renderer: fixed Maximum call stack size exceeded error that occurred on some charts with social distancing enabled

28/07/2020​

• renderer: added object.inSelectableChannel property: https://docs.seats.io/docs/renderer-object-properties-inselectablechannel

27/07/2020​

• API: call that changes object statuses in batch (https://docs.seats.io/docs/api-change-object-status-in-batch) now supports channel keys (and ignoreChannels)
• web app: it's now possible to change the default workspace
• designer: bug fix: round tables can now be placed on top of an image

24/07/2020​

• renderer: added padding around chart
• API: added channels support to best available calls
• API: added ignoreChannels flag to calls that change object status

22/07/2020​

• API: bug fix: finding best available places now works properly on multi-floor charts, when not all places are on the same floor

20/07/2020​

• web app: social distancing rulesets are now copied when copying a chart from one workspace to another
• event manager: bug fix: booking and releasing seats now works properly for events with channels

16/07/2020​

• renderer: bug fix: channels now play nicely with sessions

14/07/2020​

• designer: better indication of which rows are outside section boundaries
• renderer/API: only rows that are actually in front of or behind another row are considered when "disable seats front and behind" is enabled as a social distancing rule
• renderer: bug fix: seat.disabledBySocialDistancingRules now works properly with dynamic social distancing

06/07/2020​

• renderer: seats to the left and to the right of a selected seat are highlighted, so it's clear they'll be kept empty for social distancing
• web app: company admins can deactivate (and activate) workspaces

03/07/2020​

• API / web app: when copying a chart, social distancing rulesets are copied as well

02/07/2020​

• web app: added button to regenerate the admin key for a company

01/07/2020​

• event manager / chart manager: added French translations
• designer: removed "disabled by social distancing rules" checkbox for seats. Disabling seats should be done through the chart manager instead of through the designer.

30/06/2020​

• renderer - social distancing algorithm: the number of seats that get disabled on rows in front and behind is now dependent on the number of seats that are disabled to the sides.

22/06/2020​

• API: new event report bySelectability: https://docs.seats.io/docs/api-summary-reports#summary-report-by-selectability
• API: added isDisabledBySocialDistancing and isSelectable properties to objects in the event reports

18/06/2020​

• released dynamic social distancing feature: http://support.seats.io/en/articles/4173258-creating-and-applying-social-distancing-rules

06/05/2020​

• designer: seats can be disabled because of social distancing rules
• designer: increased maximum distance between seats and rows

27/04/2020​

• API: added call to regenerate the secret key of a workspace

06/04/2020​

• renderer: preview image is shown while loading the chart

27/03/2020​

• renderer: selected objects are indicated more clearly on multi-floor charts
• renderer: bug fix: start over button was too close to the session expired dialog
• renderer: showPricing: false now works for interactive sections

26/03/2020​

• event manager: it's now allowed to pass in showFullScreenButton, onFullScreenOpened and onFullScreenClosed
• web app: users can change their e-mail address

25/03/2020​

• API bugfix: fix potential deadlock in call that changes object statuses in batch
• designer: category name automatically gets focus when creating a new category
• renderer: show accessible, companion seat and restricted view icons on non-bookable table seats
• renderer and event manager: performance improvements when multi-selecting seats

25/03/2020​

• web app: status changes list now shows the order ID.

23/03/2020​

• renderer: exposed accessible, restrictedView, companionSeat, displayObjectType and viewFromSeatUrl properties on objects that are available in callbacks
• designer: Hotkeys to switch to a floor no longer interfere with tab switching in Chrome

20/03/2020​

• renderer: fixed visual glitch with category filter color samples on Safari
• renderer: improved performance by caching colors smarter
• designer: when creating categories, the name input field gets focus automatically to prevent hotkey presses
• event manager: alwaysShowSectionContents is on by default for all event manager modes
• API: best available seat algorithm supports multi-floor seating charts now

17/03/2020​

• designer: new help menu to show hotkey overview and restart the initial tutorial
• designer bugfix: Using Cut (⌘X) on rows no longer leaves labels behind

13/03/2020​

• designer: improved seat labelling tool. When multiple rows are selected, applying a direction to the seat labelling works in a consistent way.

10/03/2020​

• designer: added hand tool, to easily navigate within a chart. Especially useful if you don't have a Trackpad.
• designer: when adding text, you can start typing immediately
• renderer: bug fix: navigation within the minimap was broken
• renderer: smoother panning and zooming on large charts

06/03/2020​

• renderer: bug fix: no more NS_ERROR_FAILURE when rendering charts in a hidden container div in Firefox.
• renderer: bug fix: held seats would sometimes not get selected when rendering a chart with session: 'manual'

04/03/2020​

• web app: company admins can change the name of a workspace from the workspace settings page

03/03/2020​

• web app: company admins can now cancel pending invitations
• web app/API: renamed "main workspace" to "default workspace"
• renderer: bug fix: added scroll bar to category filter, when the chart has many categories and the chart embed is small

02/03/2020​

• renderer: bug fix: when switching table booking modes, previous bookings are applied. E.g.: if a table is booked, switching to 'book by seat' still shows all seats as booked.
• renderer: bug fix: pulsing objects works properly
• API: added call to change object statuses in batch

28/02/2020​

• renderer: tweaked layout of ticket type selection dialog. Price is now shown in a separate column.
• web app: default workspace is displayed on company settings page

27/02/2020​

• renderer: category picker for small embeds does not show pricing anymore
• renderer: object label is shown in all modals

21/02/2020​

• renderer: improved rendering speed in IE11

18/02/2020​

• renderer: improved performance by doing API calls in parallel

13/02/2020​

• renderer: made seats bigger, so they're more easily selectable

10/02/2020​

• event manager: bug fix: marking seats as not for sale works properly on multi-floor charts

10/02/2020​

• renderer: when passing in ticketListings, sections that have the same label are highlighted and selected as a whole.

07/02/2020​

• designer: display image size when a single image is selected
• renderer: wait until chart is initialized and rendered, before executing chart functions (e.g. chart.changeConfig(...)).
• renderer: added warning for deprecated holdOnSelect configuration parameter, which has been replaced by 'session'
• renderer: better Danish translations

03/02/2020​

• web app: company admins can change the role of team members, from admin to non-admin or vice-versa
• web app: removed subaccounts screen, since it's no longer needed. Subaccounts are replaced by users + workspaces.

30/01/2020​

• web app: company admins can invite non-admins. Non-admins have access to 1 or more workspaces.
• renderer: tweaked selected objects aura, so that non-selected seats still appear to be selectable (instead of being greyed-out).

29/01/2020​

• renderer: orphan seats selection validator now allows leaving a single empty seat at the end of sales, to avoid people not being able to select seats
• renderer: orphan seats selection validator can run in lenient mode, which allows single empty seats in some cases
• renderer: tweaked tooltip positioning to avoid unnecessary chart panning on mobile

28/01/2020​

• renderer: places that are held through a server-side API call are selected on the chart, without having to reload the chart. Note: does not work for multi-level pricing yet.
• designer: fixed some German translations

24/01/2020​

• web app: switched from subaccounts to workspaces
• API: we generate a name for a workspace when you don't pass in a name
• renderer: bug fix: panning the chart at the initial zoom level scrolls the host page on iOS13

21/01/2020​

• renderer: fixed bug that caused icons to disappear near the edge of a chart

02/01/2020​

• designer: made validation error and warnings easier to discern for color blind users
• renderer: increased contrast of spinner on dark backgrounds

20/12/2019​

• web app: you can now invite users that already have a Seats.io account to join your team

11/12/2019​

• designer: you can now enter a "displayed section label" for seats, booths and tables

10/12/2019​

• renderer: deprecated holdOnSelect parameter, replaced it by session
• renderer: bug fix: shape labels are now positioned correctly

09/12/2019​

• renderer: tooltips are shown when tapping an object on mobile in static chart mode

06/12/2019​

• designer: added tool to draw a block of intertwined rows

29/11/2019​

• event manager: fixed missing texts on buttons and modals
• renderer: fixed bug that caused the chart to disappear after selecting seats and going back to the floors overview (on multi-floor charts)

28/11/2019​

• designer: designerKey is now deprecated when embedding the designer. Use the secretKey instead.

26/11/2019​

• designer: improved performance for charts with lots of row labels or texts

25/11/2019​

• renderer: tweaked shadows and size of zoom out and full screen buttons to better fit the host page

22/11/2019​

• designer: leading and trailing spaces are trimmed from object labels (sections, seats, rows etc)

21/11/2019​

• renderer: improved floor selection on multi-floor charts

14/11/2019​

• event manager: bug fix: increasing the number of booked places in GA areas works again

07/11/2019​

• renderer: improved calculation of the category of sections: don't take into account categories that are completely unavailable.

06/11/2019​

• designer: bug fix: fixed redo for floor plans with visible left/right row labels

29/10/2019​

• renderer: improved design of ticket type dialog, when only one ticket type is available

28/10/2019​

• designer: bug fix: undoing an action on a multi-floor chart keeps the current floor active

21/10/2019​

• renderer: chart fits to width (and not to height) when container div contains child elements that were not added by seats.io
• designer: bug fix: seat selection rectangle now resizes properly when zooming in or out

18/10/2019​

• designer: seats can now be assigned a custom display type (e.g. stool or bench)

14/10/2019​

• renderer: bug fix: number of held places in a GA area was not always passed correctly to the callbacks

11/10/2019​

• renderer: bug fix: resizing a chart now works properly in all circumstances
• renderer: bug fix: on small screens, ticket types were not visible on charts with "view from your seat" images

09/10/2019​

• renderer: fixed performance issue on IE11
• renderer: objects are selectable when they are as big as they needed to be before release 287
• renderer: bug fix: restored 3D effect on multi-floor charts with smoothened sections or GAs

08/10/2019​

• renderer: added support for iPad OS
• renderer: bug fix: category filter was overlapping with the chart in some cases

07/10/2019​

• designer: alt + scroll zooms in and out to the proper point in the designer
• renderer: bug fix: some seats had to be double-clicked before they could be selected

03/10/2019​

• renderer: performance improvements smooth polygons

02/10/2019​

• designer: added tool to select all objects of the same type

01/10/2019​

• renderer: fixed performance issue when tapping on a seat
• designer: bug fix: redo action was not always available after undo

01/10/2019​

• renderer: clicking on a chart only zooms in if nearby objects are too small to be selected

26/09/2019​

• renderer: bug fix: ticket type selector now works fine on iOS 13.1
• designer: bug fix: rectangle section drawing tools works properly again
• designer: bug fix: copy-pasting polygonal GAs, sections are shapes does not leave dashed lines behind
• designer: bug fix: objects with categories with strings as key show up properly in the "chart capacity" modal

23/09/2019​

• smooth polygons: sections, GA areas and shapes can be drawn using real curves.
• designer bug fix: on long category lists, the color picker was sometimes shown behind the category list. Not any more.
• renderer: view-from-seat images are now shown on the ticket type selector modal

16/09/2019​

• event manager: added full screen button

13/09/2019​

• designer/renderer: you can now design charts with multiple floors (e.g. for theatre layouts)

12/09/2019​

• renderer: introduced full screen button
• renderer: maxSelectedObjects: 0 does not allow any objects to be selected, instead of an unlimited number
• designer: added hotkey to make the reference chart visible or invisible

11/09/2019​

• renderer: resetView() and startNewSession() reset the category filter to its initial state

10/09/2019​

• designer: category keys can be modified from within the designer

09/09/2019​

• renderer: onHoldTokenExpired is fired even when the hold token expired message is disabled for the current user account

05/09/2019​

• designer: table labels are taken into account when looking for duplicates
• designer: bug fix: 'straighten rows' tool never flips seat labels

02/09/2019​

• event manager: fixed german translations
• renderer bug fix: showing hand mouse pointer instead of arrow when hovering large sections and GA's

02/09/2019​

• renderer: fixed caching issue in IE11, causing object statuses not always being up to date

30/08/2019​

• renderer: changeConfig accepts pricing
• renderer: bug fix: text that indicates how many GA places have been selected doesn't overflow the GA area any more (when that GA area is small)
• renderer: bug fix: pinch-to-zoom now works properly on iOS

26/08/2019​

• API: whether a category is accessible can be set when creating or updating a chart

23/08/2019​

• renderer/event manager: improved performance when alt-selecting objects

22/08/2019​

• renderer/event manager: improved performance when shift-selecting objects

21/08/2019​

• renderer: keep track of the 'current' section when panning a floor plan on mobile
• API: thumbnails are now actual png screenshots, not SVG approximations anymore
• renderer: hide selected objects aura while zooming in/out.
• designer bug fix: under certain conditions, undo would remove the reference image. Not anymore.

20/08/2019​

• API: strings are allowed as category keys, instead of just integers

19/08/2019​

• API/web app: replaced SVG thumbnails by more realistic PNG thumbnails
• renderer: chart.js can be loaded by module loaders such as SystemJS

16/08/2019​

• renderer: added unavailableCategories, unavailableCategories and filteredCategories to changeConfig()
• renderer: deprecated setAvailableCategories(), setUnavailableCategories() and setFilteredCategories()
• designer: bug fix: zooming in our out doesn't created a draft chart version (on some charts)

13/08/2019​

• designer: multiple rows can be resized at once
• designer: added option to make table labels visible on rendered charts
• renderer: zoomToSelectedObjects() zooms in further on mobile
• renderer: bug fix: very high legend doesn't push chart out of bounds anymore

09/08/2019​

• released iOS SDK: https://github.com/seatsio/seatsio-ios/

09/08/2019​

• event manager: bug fix: confirmation button also works after the first time

06/08/2019​

• renderer: bug fix: when ticket type selector contains many ticket types, a vertical scroll bar is shown
• renderer: bug fix: seats without category don't appear to be invisible when zoomed out

30/07/2019​

• renderer: legend does not 'eat' vertical space on modal dialogs anymore
• designer: alignment options work better for single-seat rows

29/07/2019​

• designer: "Displayed type" now displays a list of suggestions
• renderer: Single ticket number selector is always shown in small format
• renderer: Category filter supports accessible and star-shaped categories
• designer bug fix: selecting the row tool now works instantly
• designer: preview button remains selected as long as the preview dialog is open
• renderer: tooltip no longer shows "Table" twice, which happened if the table label started with "Table ". Same for rows.
• renderer bug fix: legend no longer breaks outside container with long category names
• renderer: row labels now properly support RTL languages

24/07/2019​

• designer: image file size no longer shown as undefined in inspector sheet
• renderer: alignment issues for RTL languages fixed
• designer: properly highlight images as they get selected

19/07/2019​

• designer: Don't cap reference image size anymore

19/07/2019​

• designer bug fix: consistent inspector sheet property animations
• designer bug fix: press/unpress for seats
• designer bug fix: copy-pasting seats now also takes into account companion seat and restricted view properties
• designer bug fix: create new category button is now shown below the color picker
• renderer: support for colorScheme, colors, stylePreset and style
• renderer: changed modal dialogs design slightly to be able to support styling (e.g. ticket type selector)

12/07/2019​

• designer: embedded designer now correctly takes readOnly features into account (e.g. categoryList)
• renderer: modal windows (e.g. ticket type selector) do not unexpectedly move up and down on scroll anymore

11/07/2019​

• designer: more intuitive category editor
• designer & renderer: reorder categories in the designer via drag & drop. Categories are shown in the legend follow that order.
• designer bug fix: new tables now correctly show the default labels instead of red '?'
• designer bug fix: visibility flag on GA label now works consistently
• designer bug fix: visual order of objects stays the same now, even when dragging them around

08/07/2019​

• renderer: number of selected places is shown inside a GA area
• renderer: bug fix: ticket quantity selector is not shown when clicking a non-selectable GA area on desktop
• renderer: bug fix: category filter didn't mark seats as 'filtered out' on all zoom levels
• renderer: bug fix: when an image is displayed on top of a section, clicking that section no longer hides the image

04/07/2019​

• renderer: support for single-click multi-select
• renderer: don't automatically zoom on click, unless there is something meaningful to zoom into
• designer bug fix: floating dialog leaves dragging mode if the mouse leaves the window
• designer bug fix: preview window no longer "leaks" content over the borders
• renderer bug fix: category filter title box no longer moves after render

02/07/2019​

• designer: shapes and images can be sent to back or to the front
• designer: bug fix: seat can now be marked as 'companion seat'
• event manager: added German and Spanish translations

25/06/2019​

• renderer: warning is logged when holdOnSelect is enabled, but holdOnSelectForGAs is not
• renderer: bug fix: chart.deselectCategories() now deselects all selected GA places (in the supplied categories)
• designer: added rendering preview button
• designer: ungrouped selection tools (regular select, brush select and seat select)
• designer: bug fix: duplicate objects are now highlighted after copy-pasting
• designer: bug fix: copying booths now also copies the booth labels

17/06/2019​

• renderer: on mobile, chart pans automatically when the tooltip overlaps an object
• renderer: improved view from seat on mobile
• renderer: bug fix: maxSelectedObjects now properly limits selection of GA areas when a category is passed in

05/06/2019​

• event manager/API: we don't enforce a rate limit anymore when opening up new seats for sale - only when taking seats out of sale
• designer: bug fix: pressing delete when a table seat is selected caused an error
• designer: bug fix: clicking on the node tool when a rectangular GA area was selected caused an error

04/06/2019​

• renderer: view from seat images are now shown on mobile (which was already the case on desktop)
• renderer: bug fix: unavailable GA area can not be selected on mobile
• designer: bug fix: unlabelled GA areas are now included in the total number of unlabelled objects
• designer: bug fix: object labels would sometimes be drawn on top of sections after exiting a section
• designer: various performance improvements, especially noticeable on large charts

03/06/2019​

• designer: icons can be selected from a grid instead of from a dropdown
• designer: row labels are shown on the side instead of on top of the row
• renderer: if you don't assign a category to a section through the designer, the section category is derived from the category of the objects inside
• API: chart validation status can be included in the chart list

27/05/2019​

• event manager: tooltipInfo and onObjectClicked can be passed in
• designer: added icon tool
• designer: fixed error in Safari 10.1

15/05/2019​

• designer/renderer: seats can be marked as companion seats
• designer: holding shift, cmd or ctrl allows adding and removing objects to/from a selection
• designer: bug fix: dotted outline did not match rotated objects
• renderer: price is not shown in tooltip if object is not selectable
• renderer: rendering a chart instead of an event works properly now

03/05/2019​

• designer: increased max file size for images
• renderer: exposed status and extra data for each event that's passed in (in callbacks such as onObjectSelected)
• API: added keepExtraData flag to calls that change the object status. If set to true, the existing extra data doesn't get cleared

02/05/2019​

• designer: view from seat images can now be defined for individual seats, instead of only for sections
• designer: when uploading an image, the file size gets optimized. If the image is higher or wider than 2048px, we shrink it
• designer: bug fix: holding shift while drawing a polygon now properly snaps to 45° angles

25/04/2019​

• designer: ability to remove seats from the middle of a row
• renderer bug fix: throw proper error when something else than an array is passed in to availableCategories or unavailableCategories (e.g. null)
• renderer bug fix: no more error when a user clicks on a selected object aura
• designer bug fix: reference image is now properly shown even if there is no content
• designer bug fix: Delete/backspace key in Firefox now properly deletes selected objects
• bug fix: row labels are now properly displayed for single seat rows

23/04/2019​

• renderer: the size of rendered charts is now capped to 4096px to prevent client browsers from exploding
• designer bug fix: chart name input gets saved on blur
• designer: brush select tool now works better with small rows of 1 and 2 seats

17/04/2019​

• API: chart validation endpoints return a simpler json structure now
• renderer bug fix: onObjectClicked is fired correctly now in static mode
• designer and renderer bug fix: row labels are positioned correctly if the row has a curve
• designer bug fix: single-seat rows cannot be curved anymore

16/04/2019​

• designer: seat labeling can now start from zero
• designer: bug fix: designer doesn't crash when opening a chart with single-seat rows that have a curve
• API: bug fix: event summary reports now return the correct number of GA places (instead of 1)

12/04/2019​

• designer: added brush selection tool
• renderer: bug fix: objectLabel and objectIcon both can be passed in again

05/04/2019​

• renderer: added categoryFilter, so users can filter categories (price levels)
• renderer: bug fix: selecting 0 best available seats does not throw an error
• renderer: bug fix: passing in an empty array to maxSelectedObjects does not throw an error
• API: added call to validate a published or draft chart version

02/04/2019​

• designer: warning when editing an object label on a published chart

29/03/2019​

• renderer: fixed IndexSizeError in IE11
• designer: visual feedback when designer fails to load (e.g. due to an invalid chart key)

25/03/2019​

• renderer: no more rendering artifacts (grey lines) when hovering on object
• renderer: pinch-to-zoom via Trackpad on Mac does not zoom the host page
• event manager: allowed passing in onObjectDeselected callback
• API: added chart report by category key and by category label

18/03/2019​

• renderer: fixed issue on Safari/iOS that caused buttons on the host page to become disabled when swiping the chart
• renderer: chart.setUnavailableCategories and chart.setAvailableCategories don't deselect objects when their category is still available

13/03/2019​

• API: fixed bug that caused simultaneous requests for best available GA places to fail

12/03/2019​

• renderer: exposed parent type of seat (row vs table) in callbacks

04/03/2019​

• renderer: added chart.setAvailableCategories([...]) method and availableCategories parameter
• renderer: on mobile, tapping outside a tooltip closes the tooltip

28/02/2019​

• renderer: created Android SDK: https://github.com/seatsio/seatsio-android

21/02/2019​

• renderer: arrow on mobile tooltip is now always rendered correctly

15/02/2019​

• renderer: zoom in and zoom out animation feels more natural
• renderer: section label doesn't disappear anymore on hover when alwaysShowSectionContents is enabled
• API: improved best available performance when many objects are marked as not for sale

13/02/2019​

• renderer: improved rendering time + improved smoothness of zoom in and zoom out animations
• designer: switched to 'click-and-click' for drawing rows instead of 'click-and-drag'

06/02/2019​

• renderer: confirmSelectionOnMobile can be activated when tooltipText or onObjectClicked is passed in. By default it's not activated if one of those callback is specified.
• renderer: icons within seats are rendered horizontally instead of at the angle of the row
• API: fixed bug in status changes sorting

31/01/2019​

• API: added filter query parameter to call that lists status changes
• API: adding sort query parameter to call that lists status changes
• API/renderer: best available algorithm selects seats over sections if no seats within a section could be found
• designer/renderer: for vertical rows, you can indicate if the row labels should face left or right
• designer/renderer: fixed differences in angle at which labels are drawn in the designer vs the renderer
• renderer: bug fix: 'book whole tables' now works properly for tables that have a section label
• renderer: bug fix: object borders don't fall off the screen anymore
• renderer: bug fix: on mobile, when the confirmation popup was open, it was still possible to select that seat if an other user booked that seat at the same time

21/01/2019​

• API: call to change object status now returns extended information about the objects when when "expand=objects" is passed in as query parameter.
• API: call to change best available object status now returns extended information about the chosen objects

17/01/2019​

• renderer: added showZoomOutButtonOnMobile parameter
• renderer: different ticket type selector is shown for GA areas, when invoking chart.selectObjects or object.select on GAs with ticket types, without passing in a ticket type

15/01/2019​

• Legacy V1 API has been shut down

15/01/2019​

• renderer: ticket type selection modal is shown when calling chart.selectObjects or object.select on objects with ticket types, without passing in a ticket type
• API: added call to create multiple events at once

09/01/2019​

• designer: individual seats can be marked as wheelchair accessible, regardless of their category
• renderer: section category is shown in interactive section tooltip

08/01/2019​

• renderer: changed styling of tooltips so they display long category names properly
• renderer: when a bookable table has at least one (previously) booked seat, it's not selectable. When a bookable seat belongs to a booked table, it's not selectable.
• renderer: we now allow passing in a ticket type label, in addition to the ticket type ID
• renderer: bug fix: best available algorithm did not select extra GA places when "clearSelection: false" was passed in
• renderer: bug fix: objectColor also applies to seats without a category
• API: bug fix: you're only allowed to release GA places you actually held.

07/01/2019​

• renderer: GA areas are taken into account when requesting best available places in combination with hold on select
• renderer: object.select and object.deselect now take an optional ticket type parameter
• designer/renderer: section labels can be made invisible
• designer: previous scroll position and zoom level is restored when exiting a section
• designer: added flag to open the latest version of a chart (published or draft) when embedding the chart designer
• designer: bug fix: 'show labels' setting is applied when opening a chart
• API: bug fix: in some cases, the label for a booked objects was returned as empty string in the booing response

19/12/2018​

• renderer: added pinch-to-zoom support for Desktop Safari
• renderer: ALT + double left click zooms out a notch

13/12/2018​

• API: general admission areas are considered when selecting best available places
• API: bug fix: seats or GA places that are not for sale are not considered when selecting best available places
• API: added filtering options when listing subaccounts
• renderer: bug fix: when chart.clearSelection() is invoked, the previously selected ticket types are passed on to onObjectDeselected
• renderer: when deselecting a GA place, the previously selected ticket type needs to be passed in. If not, no place gets deselected. Also, when selecting a seat or a GA place, a valid ticket type needs to be passed in (if multiple price levels are set for that object).

11/12/2018​

• renderer: selecting an object is now a 2-step process on mobile. When tapping an object, a tooltip is shown. The tooltip contains a 'select' button. Clicking it selects the object.
• renderer: improved pinch-zooming performance
• renderer: bug fix: price is not shown on the selected seat tooltip when "showPricing: false" is passed in
• designer: created separate tools for drawing single rows and blocks of rows

05/12/2018​

• renderer: added support for GA areas when selecting best available places
• renderer: switched to native scrolling when the chart is scrolled out of bounds, which should lead to a much smoother experience (especially on iOS). No need to pass in onScrolledOutOfBoundsVertically anymore.
• renderer: when alwaysShowSectionContents is set to true, clicking on the chart zooms in to that point, instead of focusing on the clicked section
• renderer: bug fix: checkmarks are shown again in selected GA areas and tables
• designer: added 'displayed object type' input field for rows, e.g. to show a row as a couch instead in the tooltips
• designer: sections and GA areas on top of the reference chart are now translucent, so you can still see the image
• designer: various fixes to image objects
• event manager: bug fix: confirmation button now has the proper width, even on small charts

27/11/2018​

• renderer: added support for scroll wheel zoom and pinch-to-zoom on desktop
• renderer: chart is rendered, even when connection to Ably fails when listening for expired hold tokens
• renderer: when hovering an interactive section, the tooltip contains the word 'Section'
• renderer: various translation fixes
• designer: bug fix: tables and table seats are assigned UUIDs again
• designer: placeholders for images inside sections are shown when section contents is visible in section overview mode

23/11/2018​

• renderer: added holdOnSelectForGAs rendering parameter so existing accounts can enable hold on select for GAs

22/11/2018​

• renderer/API: general admission areas can now be held, just like seats. This is only enabled for new signups only currently - we'll add a toggle on the settings page to enable it for existing accounts
• designer: added option to increase or decrease seat spacing
• designer: bug fix: undo/redo now works properly
• event manager: improved look and feel of tables without category

20/11/2018​

• renderer: new property on category to render all seats in that category as a star
• API: fixed performance issue with /charts/[chart key]?expand=events call

19/11/2018​

• dashboard: replaced 'book whole tables' checkbox by link to event manager, which allows setting the table bookability mode on an individual table level
• dashboard: search queries in the API call history modal window can contain spaces
• designer: tools that space objects vertically or horizontally now make sure the spacing between all objects is equal, instead of aligning the objects on an invisible grid
• designer: state for some tools is saved and applied when opening another chart (or the same chart). This is the case for the translucent sections tool, snap to grid, view from seat and show labels tool.
• designer: bug fix: when the caption of a shape is empty, nothing is shown on the rendered chart instead of 'null'
• renderer: made best available validation more strict
• renderer: 'session expired' dialog looks good even when the text is long (e.g. in French)

15/11/2018​

• API: bug fix: prevented seats in status booked to go to held again

14/11/2018​

• event manager: added buttons to mark all tables as bookable by table or bookable by seat
• designer: added tool to draw rectangular or square sections
• designer: improved row snapping
• designer: bug fix: X button inside an input field now properly clears the text of the input
• renderer: bug fix: label of interactive section doesn't jump anymore when selecting the section
• renderer: improved contrast of table inside section

12/11/2018​

• designer: added tools to align objects
• renderer: added Japanese language support
• renderer: improved contrast between non bookable table and background of page

08/11/2018​

• designer bug fix: no more delay when clicking a palette color
• designer & API: added configurable validation rule to ensure a category is only applied to a single object type
• renderer: new sexy dark background mode
• API: queue concurrent GA bookings instead of throwing an error
• API: improved performance when booking best available seats, especially on very large charts

07/11/2018​

• renderer: when hold token expires, a dialog is shown with a button to restart the session. Note: this feature is only active for accounts created after 07/11/2018
• designer: removed 'prefix' functionality when labeling objects (for newly created charts)
• designer: bug fix: paste button is enabled when something was copied to the clipboard, even when currently no objects are selected
• API: performance improvement for server side best available

31/10/2018​

• renderer/designer: moved away from cdnjs to our own CDN to host JS libs and other static assets (for more reliability)
• renderer: deprecated showRowLabels in favour of configuring row labels through the designer, which is more flexible
• designer: copy-pasting happens in memory instead of in local storage when the latter if full
• designer/API: added optional validation for missing focal point in chart
• event manager: added a mode to manage table booking modes (by table or by seat)
• API: bug fix: fixed race condition that in some rare cases caused booked seats to become free again, if they were previously held

29/10/2018​

• renderer: non bookable tables are drawn in white again
• designer: added copy/paste functionality. Works within a chart, and over charts.
• designer: improved snapping when drawing sections
• designer: added option to hide the publish button
• designer: bug fix: automatic table radius now works properly
• designer: bug fix: after resizing a row with seats without category, the inspector shows the category picker when selecting seats

24/10/2018​

• renderer: added chart.listSelectedObjects() method to retrieve the selected objects
• renderer: events can have some tables bookable as a whole, and other tables bookable by seat
• renderer: bug fix: general admission tooltip now shows the section label once instead of twice
• designer: label of general admission area is not editable when 'publishedSectionLabel' feature is disabled
• designer: warning when drawing outside section boundaries
• designer: seat label color adapts to category color
• designer: clicking the caption of a text object selects the whole text
• designer: added button (X) to clear an input field when it contains multiple values
• designer: bug fix: revived object prefix input field
• designer: bug fix: tweaked seat label padding

16/10/2018​

• designer: added option to have seat labeling end at a certain number (in addition to having it start at some value)
• designer: added 'section label' input field, to indicate an object's section on a chart without visible sections
• designer: reference chart wizard and first time tutorial can be closed by pressing ESC
• designer: bug fix: row spacing input field now displays the correct value
• renderer: pimped Danish translations
• API: chart reporting and event reporting calls return a "labels" property, that contains the displayed label of the object itself, its table or row (for seats), and the section

10/10/2018​

• renderer: bug fix: prevented tooltips from being rendered off-screen when chart does not fully fit the screen
• designer: various performance tweaks
• API: default chart validation level is 'error' for new users
• API/designer: added validation rules for unlabeled sections, rows and tables
• API: limited max category key to 2^53-1 when creating or updating a chart (this is the max safe integer in JavaScript)

04/10/2018​

• renderer: added option to not clear the current selection when selecting best available seats
• designer: improved section scaling control (changed to slider)
• designer: row prefix can be set when only a single row is selected
• designer: bug fix: color picker now accepts all valid hex colors
• designer: bug fix: arrows work properly on numeric input fields

02/10/2018​

• designer: added option to skip letters I, O and Q when labeling rows
• designer: made width and height of elliptical shapes editable properties
• designer: revamped row label position control
• designer: bug fix: chart categories are editable even when no objects are selected
• designer: bug fix: section nodes are hidden when changing the section scaling
• API: added chart reporting call
• renderer: warning is printed in console when hold token has expired or doesn't exist when rendering the chart

26/09/2018​

• dashboard: chart validation settings can be configured on the settings page
• event manager: for sale config manager indicates how many calls are still available in a day
• API: increased rate limit of for sale/not for sale calls to 10 per day
• API: hold token calls return the expiration in seconds
• renderer/designer: bug fix: row labels for rows with only 1 seat are displayed properly

24/09/2018​

• designer: when flipping a section, all of its contents are flipped as well
• designer bug fix: holding shift down now properly draws a 1:1 ratio circle
• designer bug fix: rectangle now properly anchors to starting position when holding shift down
• designer bug fix: Reference chart now takes section scaling into account
• designer: shape outlines inside sections are not shown when translucent sections are enabled
• designer: new feature flag to make technical section label read-only
• designer bug fix: Fixed error when clicking Details on Duplicate objects

21/09/2018​

• designer: replaced section scaling by slider that allows resizing one or a bunch of sections
• designer: in section overview mode, the contours of the contents of all sections are visible (aka 'section translucency')
• designer: added possibility to show row labels on rendered chart. Can be turned on or off per row (left, right, left and right or invisible).
• designer: seats can be marked as having 'restricted view'
• renderer: added parameter to turn on transparent backgrounds for tooltips
• renderer: bug fix: not only the first [br/] is converted to a line break
• dashboard: at most 15 events are shown per chart. Clicking on the 'more' button reveals them all.

13/09/2018​

• designer: removed labeling tool. Individual seats can be labeled by selecting them and setting a label in the right-hand sidebar.
• designer: warning message when exiting a chart that contains errors (e.g. unlabelled seats)
• renderer: best available algorithm allows selecting seats by ticket type
• dashboard: API call history screen shows object labels, even if UUIDs were used when changing the object status

11/09/2018​

• designer: shapes can have a label + icon (e.g. 'stage', 'exit', 'restroom')
• renderer: tweaked tooltips

06/09/2018​

• renderer: added 'sectionCategory' property to section objects that are passed in to callbacks
• renderer: added objectWithoutCategorySelectable and objectWithoutPricingSelectable flags (which default to true)
• renderer: ticket types are passed in to onHoldSucceeded, onHoldFailed, onReleaseHoldSucceeded and onReleaseHoldFailed
• designer: improved tab order of input fields

29/08/2018​

• designer: added image tool
• designer: added align and spacing buttons for rows
• designer: made rectangular table layout more flexible
• API: added call to update the extra data for multiple objects in one go
• API: made it possible to pass in expiresInMinutes when creating a hold token
• API: status-changes call always returns the objectLabel, even if the object status was changed by uuid
• renderer: bug fix: even when sectionColor is passed in, the section background is gray when zoomed in
• renderer: bug fix: removed incorrect "unsupported language" warning

28/08/2018​

• designer: adding styling options for text (bold and italic)
• designer: bug fix: designer works fine even if local storage has been disabled in the browser
• event manager: added language parameter. Supported languages are English, Dutch and Portuguese for now.
• renderer: added 'categories' option, which allows overriding the list of categories that was set through the designer
• renderer: added 'objectCategories' option, which allows overriding the default object categories that were set through the designer
• renderer: selectedObjects option optionally takes ticket types
• renderer: added Norwegian translations

19/07/2018​

• dashboard: seats can be booked and released from within the event details page
• dashboard: added form to change the password at https://app.seats.io/settings
• renderer: marked isObjectSelectable as deprecated
• event manager: improved styling of tooltips
• event manager: fixed bug that caused lasso-select to 'hang' sometimes (meaning: there was no way to exit it)

11/07/2018​

• event manager: added option to book or release places in general admission areas
• designer: bug fix: background image can be removed if the link is broken
• designer: bug fix: when category list is made read-only, categories can still be applied to objects (but the categories themselves cannot be edited)
• renderer: bug fix: tooltips are laid out properly when using a right-to-left language (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic)

04/07/2018​

• renderer: completely redesigned tooltips: https://blog.seats.io/tooltips-elegant-and-powerful-7c50077586f9

26/06/2018​

• API: change object status call returns object entrance (if specified on the section the object belongs to)
• designer: fixed layout issue on small screens

20/06/2018​

• designer: added support for letters as seat labels, both upper- and lowercase.

01/06/2018​

• renderer: added Catalan as a supported language
• renderer: bug fix: selection rectangle is shown when multi-selecting objects
• API: when booking best available seats, detailed labeling information is returned
• API: when booking seats, detailed labeling information can optionally be returned

23/05/2018​

• renderer: improved rendering performance
• renderer: selected object auras indicate more clearly how many seats have been selected
• renderer: prevented zooming out further than the initial zoom level

17/05/2018​

• event manager: added tool to book and release seats (https://www.seats.io/docs/event-manager)
• renderer: added lasso select tool that can be activated by holding down alt (if multi select is enabled)
• renderer: bug fix: "allowOrphanSeats: false" did not play nicely with holdOnSelect

26/04/2018​

• added tool for admin users: the event manager (https://www.seats.io/docs/event-manager)

16/04/2018​

• renderer: legend colors take objectColor callback into account
• renderer: seat label is shown on price level selection popup

06/04/2018​

• renderer: added chart.deselectCategories
• renderer: bug fix: chart.selectCategories now also selects seats inside sections

03/04/2018​

• API: added event reporting summary calls: https://www.seats.io/docs/api-v2#core-resources-event-reports-summary-reports

28/03/2018​

• designer: categories button is always visible, even when all features are disabled
• renderer: chart is passed as argument to onChartRenderingFailed
• renderer: warning when isObjectSelectable is implemented in a potentially slow way

19/03/2018​

• designer: bug fix: clicking on 'save & exit' while the chart is still loading no longer clears the chart

13/03/2018​

• renderer: improved multiselect: selection rectangle is shown while selecting
• renderer: improved multiselect: selected objects are highlighted more clearly
• renderer: improved multiselect: selected objects can be multi-deselected
• renderer: fixed performance issue on large charts

06/03/2018​

• renderer: added 'selectionValidators' parameter, which allows enforcing consecutive seat selection and preventing orphan seats
• renderer: deprecated 'orphanSeats' parameter in favor of 'selectionValidators'

26/02/2018​

• renderer: added Swedish language support

20/02/2018​

• API: bug fix: fixed booking of best available tables
• renderer: chart zooms in to clicked point instead of to nearest section when clicking outside of a section
• designer: added button to uncategorize an object

09/02/2018​

• renderer: fixed zooming bug on Android (Chrome) for sites that don't set the viewport width to the device width
• renderer: added object.pulse() to highlight an object

06/02/2018​

• renderer: best available algorithm also takes booths into account

02/02/2018​

• renderer: best available algorithm does not leave orphan seats anymore, unless absolutely necessary
• renderer: bug fix: clearSelection() does not trigger warnings about orphan seats anymore
• designer: warning about duplicate or unlabeled seats when publishing a chart
• designer: bug fix: long category keys do not overlap the edit category and delete category buttons anymore

29/01/2018​

• designer: added German translation
• renderer: added onChartRenderingFailed callback
• renderer: clearSelection takes a success and error callback, which are triggered when releasing reserved seats succeeds or fails
• renderer: when rendering fails, a user-friendly error message is shown, and a retry button (in case there was a network issue)

19/01/2018​

• web app: added much more detail to usage report at https://app.seats.io/reports
• renderer: removed old ticket selection popups, which were still shown when passing in tooltipStyle
• renderer: onBestAvailableSelected callback receives flag that indicates if selected seats are next to each other

18/01/2018​

• renderer: added listCategories function which takes a callback that receives all chart categories
• renderer: added numSelected and selectionPerTicketType properties on GA areas

09/01/2018​

• renderer: the default tooltip for unavailable objects includes the object's label
• designer: sections and GA areas can have a technical label (used when booking objects) and a display label (which is shown to ticket buyers)

08/01/2018​

• renderer: check icon is shown on selected seats to improve ticket buyer UX.

26/12/2017​

• renderer: default to english language if an unsupported language parameter is passed in, instead of not rendering the floor plan

19/12/2017​

• renderer: when section borders overlap, they're brought to the front on hover
• renderer: bug fix: popups are rendered properly, even when minimum font size has been set to the non-default value in Chrome
• designer: tweaked hover colors
• web app: proper error message is shown when trying to change the key of an event to one that already existed

13/12/2017​

• designer: when labeling seats & rows using numbers, 0 is accepted as a value.

06/12/2017​

• renderer: GA labels are visible on GA areas inside sections

05/12/2017​

• charts: categories can be made 'wheelchair-accessible' in the designer, meaning that a wheelchair icon is shown on rendered charts

04/12/2017​

• API: added reporting call by section

28/11/2017​

• designer: background images can be uploaded instead of having to provide a URL
• renderer: section labels colors contrast more with the section color, as to improve readability
• renderer: made section borders prettier
• renderer: HTML or JavaScript code inside object labels is properly escaped
• renderer: bug fix for reserved seats not always getting selected properly after reloading a page

22/11/2017​

• renderer: bug fix: selected objects aura is not shown when selecting booths

21/11/2017​

• renderer: sections are rendered with a nice border, section labels are rendered with a nice shadow
• renderer: added showActiveSectionTooltipOnMobile, showViewFromYourSeatOnMobile and showViewFromYourSeatOnDesktop toggles
• API: when booking best available objects, it's possible to let Seats.io indicate if the chosen seats are next to each other

17/11/2017​

• designer: order in which rows are labeled is now predictable (i.e. from first row to last)
• designer: row and section labels are applied when clicking on an other object or when clicking outside of the tooltip
• API: fixed encoding issue of extraData when returned in object-statuses call
• renderer: ticket type and GA quantity popups work well on small screens

14/11/2017​

• renderer: charts have a minimum height of 300px, because they're not usable if they are smaller than that. Charts can still be rendered smaller than 300px by setting a small height on the chart div (not recommended)
• renderer: added onChartPublished callback
• renderer: small tweaks to new ticket type and GA quantity popups

12/11/2017​

• renderer: restyled GA quantity selector and ticket type selector tooltips. Those are now modal popups.

09/11/2017​

• renderer: objects that are passed to callbacks have a 'selectedTicketType' property (if a ticket type has been selected)

06/11/2017​

• renderer: added Arabic (ar) and Hebrew (he) translations

06/11/2017​

• dashboard: parent user can copy charts between subaccounts, from a subaccount to the parent account and from the parent account to a subaccount
• renderer: back button scrolls together with viewport, so it's visible even if the chart is partly out of the viewport
• renderer: when GA area is clicked, selected places counter does not automatically go to 1 anymore
• designer: performance improvements for big charts
• api: /changeExtraData allows extraData to be set for objects in status 'free'

30/10/2017​

• renderer: orphan seats are properly detected when objects change status (e.g. when someone else books an object)

25/10/2017​

• renderer: number of available seats is not shown anymore in section tooltip on mobile
• renderer: orphan seats warning is shown when chart.selectObjects() results in orphan seats

24/10/2017​

• dashboard: parent user can pretend to be a subaccount by clicking on a subaccount in the subaccounts list of the dashboard.

24/10/2017​

• renderer: added onReservationSucceeded, onUnreservationSucceeded and onUnreservationFailed callbacks
• renderer: chart does not pan when not zoomed in further than initial zoom level
• designer: duplicate seats message is shown when duplicate seats exist within different sections

19/10/2017​

• renderer: improved rendering speed by doing calls to backend in parallel.
• renderer: new chart config parameter orphanSeats which supports a "warn" value. When active, exclamation marks will be displayed on orphan seats. allowOrphanSeats is still supported for backwards compatibility.
• renderer: new chart config parameter onOrphanSeats which takes a callback, triggered when orphan seats are detected if the orphanSeats config is set to "warn".
• renderer: fixed a rendering issue that would make some icons defined with the objectIcon chart config to look bigger than others.

18/10/2017​

• renderer: ticket selection tooltip now updates reserved tickets count when selecting/deselecting objects with ticket types via the JavaScript API.
• renderer: selected objects are highlighted better on zoomed out charts that don't have sections
• API: extraData is allowed when releasing an object. If no extraData is passed in, the existing extra data is cleared.

13/10/2017​

• renderer (mobile): tooltips that pop up when attempting to select unselectable seats now properly hide after panning.

11/10/2017​

• designer: row curving now works when multiple 'blocks' of seats are selected
• designer: row curving now works for selected rows with varying number of seats (i.e. some rows shorter or longer)
• designer: section scale slider can be controlled at a higher precision than only at multiples of 10%
• renderer: added onReservationFailed callback

09/10/2017​

• designer: batch-labeling rows always happens away from the top-left corner (and so doesn't look at the focal point anymore)
• designer: added button to reverse row labels
• renderer: added zoomToSelectedObjects() function, which ... zooms in to the currently selected objects
• renderer: GA labels can be translated through the 'messages' parameter, just like sections
• renderer: improved the way in which selected seats within a section are visualized
• renderer: section and GA labels are drawn whitish or grayish, to give enough contrast with the background color
• renderer: selectObjects and deselectObjects take an optional ticketType parameter

02/10/2017​

• designer: GA labels can be made smaller and bigger, and can be moved around just like section labels
• renderer: GA labels are shown if the 'Label shown?' checkbox in the designer is checked

18/09/2017​

• designer: background image is shown when editing section contents

11/09/2017​

• web app: switched to SVG for the chart thumbnails, so they look much sharper now. Also, seats inside sections are shown on thumbnails.

11/09/2017​

• renderer: replaced zoom controls by a home button that's enabled when zoomed in

05/09/2017​

• dashboard: search box now also accepts event keys to search on

05/09/2017​

• renderer: View From Your Seat now works on mobile devices
• renderer: improved usability on mobile by adding a back button to zoom out when zoomed in
• renderer: when zoomed in on a section on mobile, contextual information is shown (section name, price, available seats)

29/08/2017​

• designer: "Save & Exit" button saves any changes that were not yet saved

21/08/2017​

• renderer bugfix: when GA capacity is changed, the change is reflected immediately and automatically on rendered charts

17/08/2017​

• designer & renderer: added view-from-your-seat feature
• designer: more & better error messages when autosave fails for some reason

04/08/2017​

• Renderer: bugfix: rendering big charts now works in Opera

11/07/2017​

• designer: added destroy method

03/07/2017​

• API: bugfix: call to update chart name and categories does not delete the selected object labeling algorithms

28/06/2017​

• web app: proper error message when changing the event key to a key that already exists

20/06/2017​

• API: improved performance of /linkChartToEvent and /linkChartToEvents calls

15/06/2017​

• renderer: added Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese as supported languages

14/06/2017​

• web app: you can now search charts by key
• API: added call to get the status of a single object

09/06/2017​

• web app: usage report showed wrong months for customers in UTC-1 or lower (e.g. North and South America)

30/05/2017​

• web app: Seats.io dashboard is now paginated & searchable

30/05/2017​

• renderer: row labels are rendered bigger when showRowLabels is enabled

12/05/2017​

• renderer: libraries are fetched from a CDN to improve load times
• renderer: fixed race condition that prevented multiple charts to be rendered on the same page in some cases

11/05/2017​

• designer: table label input field to edit individual table labels, when a single table is selected

10/05/2017​

• renderer: static assets (JS, images, CSS) are edge cached by a CDN, so they're served from a location close to the end user

05/05/2017​

• api: event details call indicates if best available is possible for the event (meaning: if there's a focal point defined on the chart linked to the event)
• renderer: bug fix: when chart scrolls out of bounds, host page scrolls. This did not work properly in all cases.

03/05/2017​

• renderer: bug fix: background image with spaces is rendered correctly
• renderer: when objectIcon is passed in, seating chart waits for Font Awesome to be loaded before rendering. This fixes an issue where squares were sometimes shown instead of the actual icons.
• api: creating a reservation token always succeeds, even if the reservation period is set to exactly 2 hours

28/04/2017​

• designer: when a single row is selected in labeling mode, row label input field is shown in popup menu
• designer: added French translation
• renderer: best available seat selector retries reserving seats when reservation failed

25/04/2017​

• designer: fixed performance issue that occurred when charts had 1000s of duplicate seats
• designer: improved performance and UX of labeling screen
• renderer: added canGASelectionBeIncreased callback, which determines if more GA places can be selected

21/04/2017​

• designer: language can be set to English or Spanish when embedding the designer
• renderer: when selectBestAvailable is used, the selected seats are properly highlighted

20/04/2017​

• API: added calls to create and update charts by providing name, venue type and categories

19/04/2017​

• designer: sections can be flipped horizontally & vertically. Section content is flipped as well (just rows & text, not other objects).
• designer: features can be made read-only or they can be disabled when embedding the designer
• designer: fixed error that was thrown when opening the chart designer in IE11 and older versions
• renderer: chart does not throw SecurityError because of unavailable sessionStorage when embedded in an iFrame

31/03/2017​

• renderer: extraConfig can be updated by passing it to chart.changeConfig
• renderer: I18N: added support for Belarusian (be), Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Romanian (ro), Serbian (sr), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Turkish (tr) and Ukrainian (uk).

15/03/2017​

• dashboard optimization: chart thumbnails are lazily loaded
• renderer: added legend.hidePricing parameter. Default value is false (so the pricing information is shown in the legend)

07/03/2017​

• renderer: bugfix: charts are rendered properly when the container div has a min-height set
• renderer: changed styling of legend. It looks better now and is mobile-friendly.
• renderer: I18N - Finnish (fi) and Russian (ru)

03/03/2017​

• renderer: lines between seats (aka 'row lines') are not shown by default. They can be enabled by passing showRowLines: true

03/03/2017​

• renderer: added destroy method that cleans up a chart (rendered or not)

27/02/2017​

• renderer: minimap is shown on charts with sections when less than two thirds of the chart is visible
• renderer: seat edges are rendered prettier when zoomed out
• renderer: bugfix: charts that are rendered in a container div with box-sizing: border-box are rendered properly
• renderer: bugfix: prices in legend are now formatted with provided priceFormatter
• renderer: bugfix: seats in a section are always shown when the user clicks on a section

24/02/2017​

• designer: made row resize handles somewhat bigger
• renderer: chart is still rendered when background image fails to load
• renderer: charts are fully responsive. They respond to changes in width and height of the container div.

16/02/2017​

• renderer: object.selected property is available for callbacks that are executed outside the iFrame (e.g. tooltipText)

16/02/2017​

• dashboard: when you select a tag, that tag is remembered when editing a chart and going back. Or even when refreshing your browser.

15/02/2017​

• designer: fixed bug that caused charts with sections to be skewed in some cases

10/02/2017​

• renderer/designer: switched to Verdana as font for labels and tooltips
• API: new call to create reservation tokens; returns token, expiresAt and secondsUntilExpiration, instead of just the token

06/02/2017​

• designer: objects and focal point can be moved using arrow keys
• renderer: I18N - Estonian

03/02/2017​

• API: reservation tokens can be expired immediately
• dashboard: number of available places in GA areas are shown
• renderer: fixed rendering artifacts that appeared sometimes (especially on charts with sections)

27/01/2017​

• Draft drawings are enabled for new users

16/01/2017​

• designer: fixed bug that caused onChartCreated not being fired anymore

12/01/2017​

• designer: added possibility to turn on draft charts in settings screen. When enabled, changes to charts are not immediately visible on rendered charts. They go to a special draft version, which can be published afterwards.

03/01/2017​

• invoicing: when a whole table is booked, the number of seats at that table is added to the number of used objects

22/12/2016​

• renderer: bugfix: objectIcon works on IE11 and older

21/12/2016​

• renderer: bugfix: objectIcon works on Safari (desktop + mobile)

16/12/2016​

• Added support for polygon general admission areas
• Section borders get category color, like seats

15/12/2016​

• renderer: legend texts are drawn in either black or white, depending on the category color for that legend item
• dashboard: status changes can be sorted by date properly
• api: booking best available seats, releasing them and then booking them again works. Previously you had to wait for about 10 seconds before booking again.
• designer: objects with corner radius = 0 are loaded correctly in the designer (instead of falling back to the default corner radius of 4)

08/12/2016​

• dashboard: API call history time formatting fix

02/12/2016​

• designer: made categories of "rows with sections" template consistent with section labels

26/11/2016​

• designer: increased max row curve to 30

24/11/2016​

• renderer: improved tooltip positioning
• renderer: chart is rendered properly, even if 'third party content' is blocked by the browser

22/11/2016​

• renderer: GA tooltips don't show availability info anymore by default. You can show availability info by implementing the tooltipText callback.

18/11/2016​

• renderer bugfix: 0px section labels are actually not rendered anymore
• designer bugfix: in some rare cases, autolabeling resulted in number type labels, instead of strings. Not so anymore.
• renderer: on renderer callbacks, you now have object.capacity, object.numBooked and object.numFree properties for general admission areas
• renderer: callbacks 'object' arguments now have a 'labels' property, that contains own, parent and section labels in separate properties
• renderer: GA tooltips show info about availability
• API: added call to extend reservation tokens
• fixed the usage report screen

09/11/2016​

• designer: when using shift to draw straight section lines, snapping works as well
• designer: duplicated objects are positioned correctly

08/11/2016​

• designer bugfix: releasing shift is handled correctly now

04/11/2016​

• renderer: improved layout of multilevel pricing selector popups (except if you're using tooltipStyle, then the old layout is still being used)

28/10/2016​

• renderer: added icon overlays for seats and other objects (see the objectIcon callback)
• renderer: reduced number of http requests by combining js libs
• renderer: quickly reserving and unreserving a seat does not cause that seat to become selected suddenly

20/10/2016​

• designer: background image url is not removed if the chart gets autosaved while loading the bg img
• API: better error messages when 400 bad request is returned because of illegal json body request
• renderer: added sectionColor callback, to support overriding over default section color
• renderer: bugfix: when rendering a chart for multiple events, reserveOnSelect caused a deselected seat to be automatically selected again
• renderer: chart is rendered even if Ably connection times out (which is used to receive realtime status updates)

12/10/2016​

• renderer: tooltips in the bottom right corner don't overlap hovered seats anymore

12/10/2016​

• renderer: orphan seats algorithm does not cause errors for tables and booths

8/10/2016​

• designer: more flexibility for new labeling system ('start at' is free input field)
• designer: bugfix in labeling. ... 5, 3, 1, 2, 4, 6 ... now works properly
• renderer, orphan seat algo improvement: no single seats can be left open at the beginning or the end of a row. The minimum is two open seats.

30/09/2016​

• renderer: added onScrolledOutOfBoundsVertically callback (e.g. for situations in which the Seats.io iFrame is embedded inside another iFrame)
• renderer: new zoom control icons
• renderer: seats at tables get assigned a label automatically
• designer bugfix: labels shown in draw mode are rendered correctly when curving rows
• renderer: when onObjectSelected is called after a page refresh for seats that have been reserved before, the previously selected ticket type is passed as a parameter.
• renderer: all connected users are notified of changes in extraData (which can be passed when booking a seat)
• API: all calls support OPTIONS request (to enable CORS)

15/09/2016​

• designer: improved labeling. Rows and seats can be labeled in batch.

14/09/2016​

• dashboard: added page that shows used seats overview per user account
• designer: added categories to default chart with booths
• API: status changes for an event can be fetched through /api/event/{secretKey}/{eventKey}/statusChanges

01/09/2016​

• internal change: switched from own Faye server to Ably for publishing of status changes

25/08/2016​

• designer: added undo and redo buttons + keyboard shortcuts
• renderer: in case of multilevel pricing, min and max price for the seat are shown in the tooltip

19/08/2016​

• renderer: price level can be selected when multi-selecting seats
• renderer: completed Spanish, German, French and Dutch translations
• renderer: number of available seats in section tooltip takes general admission areas inside sections into account
• designer: number of seats in total message takes general admission areas into account

29/07/2016​

• renderer: maxSelectedObjects can be changed

09/07/2016​

• renderer: section labels can be translated through the messages parameter

08/07/2016​

• designer/renderer: fixed orphan seats detection for rectangular tables
• api: fixed server best available not always picking the right seats of tables

04/07/2016​

• internal change: switched to own Faye server for pushing object status changes to connected clients
• renderer: fixed typo in Portuguese translations

30/06/2016​

• dashboard: added validation so that event keys are guaranteed to be unique

23/06/2016​

• added support for season tickets: objects can be booked for multiple evens at once
• designer: entrance can be added to general admission areas

17/06/2016​

• renderer: fixed issue with background images on HTTPS URLs
• designer: entrance can be added to sections
• API: added call to fetch object info (which contains only the section entrance for now)

09/06/2016​

• designer: visual indication of duplicate seat labels
• API: improved performance of server side best available calls

09/06/2016​

• renderer: fixed problem with multilevel pricing selector on iphone6 + mobile chrome

08/06/2016​

• renderer: tweaked settings so that seats become selectable a bit sooner (Desktop only)
• renderer: exposed more data on section objects (useful in callbacks like tooltipText())

26/05/2016​

• renderer: added translations for Danish
• designer: fixed bug with rounded corners

18/05/2016​

• renderer: fixed pinch issue on iOS9.3

12/05/2016​

• renderer: mode can be passed in: 'static', 'print' or 'normal'
• renderer: double clicking on an object selects it, instead of zooming in on the chart
• designer: added onChartUpdated callback for embedded designer
• API: added call te fetch event chart and book whole tables

28/04/2016​

• API: status change calls (changeStatus, book, release etc.) can take bestAvailable
• API: reporting calls contain category of tables when book whole tables is activated for an event
• designer: in category mode, objects can be selected by clicking on them (and not only by drag and drop)
• renderer: bugfix for zoomEnabled config option

19/04/2016​

• API: added calls to archive and unarchive charts
• API: added call to change the book whole tables property of an event
• renderer: bugfix: background rendering broken on charts with sections

14/04/2016​

• renderer: bugfix: rendering broken on Safari

14/04/2016​

• designer: label position is computed correctly for sections with (near) zero area
• renderer: added objectLabel for seats and booths
• renderer: bugfix: isObjectVisible can be used together with bookWholeTables
• renderer: bugfix: showRowLabels works with invisible rows

30/03/2016​

• renderer: bugfix: onBestAvailableSelected callback was never triggered
• renderer: I18N - Polish
• renderer: bookWholeTables can be switched on/off even while sales are already running
• renderer: I18N - Portuguese

17/03/2016​

• renderer: table can be selected by best available selector
• renderer: pricing can be passed in as a number + a price formatter function (to make sure min and max prices are determined correctly)

11/03/2016​

• renderer: price can be passed in as number (for determining min and max)
• designer: label size, rotation and position are indicated

10/03/2016​

• designer: section labels can be moved
• renderer: powered by message is shown under chart
• api: releasing a seat that is already free does not result in an error

29/02/2016​

• objects in charts contain category key (in addition to category label)
• api: added reporting call by category key
• api: when booking GA tickets, the current capacity of the GA area is used for validation (and not the old one)

25/02/2016​

• renderer/api: improved performance of call that fetches event data
• renderer: bugfix for IE10 and IE9

23/02/2016​

• widget: when creating a chart through the widget, it's automatically linked to the event
• renderer: improved performance for large charts

23/02/2016​

• renderer: improved zooming on mobile devices
• dashboard: newly created events are at the bottom of the list

19/02/2016​

• renderer: reservation token is kept in session storage per chart, which allows multiple floor plans on the same page to use reserveOnSelect
• renderer: performance improvements for charts with lots of categories

10/02/2016​

• renderer: zooming and panning did not work properly after changing orientation from portrait to landscape on mobile devices

01/02/2016​

• renderer: row labels are rendered correctly
• designer: increased maximal zoomed out level

27/01/2016​

• renderer: objectColor takes default color as second parameter
• renderer: objectCategory takes default category as third parameter
• renderer: chart takes extraConfig parameter, which is passed to callbacks
• renderer: price level selector is rendered centered on the clicked seat to make it more prominent
• renderer: no stuttering when scrolling out of bounds on iOS
• reservation period can be configured on admin screen of dashboard
• designer: improved feedback for auto saving
• designer/renderer: elements inside section with large label are positioned correctly

12/01/2016​

• API: reporting calls also return extra data
• renderer: empty spaces can be prevented by passing allowOrphanSeats: false
• renderer: added onObjectClicked callback

12/01/2016​

• renderer: reservation token is kept in memory when session storage is not available (e.g. Safari in private mode)
• renderer: reservation token can be passed as a parameter (e.g. after a page refresh when using Safari in private mode)
• API: object category in reporting calls is derived from section category

01/06/2016​

• renderer: best available seats can be selected by calling a function on the rendered chart - selectBestAvailable(bestAvailableConfig)
• extra data (in JSON format) can be passed when booking objects

21/12/2015​

• API: extended reporting: added object type of every object, and number of booked seats + capacity of GA area

21/12/2015​

• designer bugfix: charts with one row cannot be curved or flipped
• renderer bugfix: impossible to select number of general admission tickets on mobile

18/12/2015​

• designer bugfix: color chooser for categories now behaves correctly

11/12/2015​

• added support for charts with sections (to enable very big charts to be drawn)
• renderer: minimap is shown when zoomed in on chart with sections
• renderer: added showMinimap parameter
• API: GZIP encoding can be enabled by passing Accept-Encoding: gzip as request header
• designer: background image can be made bigger or smaller

7/11/2015​

• API: new chart name can be specified when copying a chart

6/11/2015​

• designer: added onChartCreated callback to know the key of a newly created chart
• designer: forced category names to be unique
• bugfix: embedded designer did not work when user was not logged in
• bugfix: object tooltip in renderer is hidden when hovering out of the seating chart

22/10/2015​

• New API calls for reporting

15/10/2015​

• Best available seat selection: if not enough seats are available on a single row, seats over multiple rows get selected
• renderer: when multiSelectEnabled, maxSelectedObjects is taken into account

08/10/2015​

• renderer: center of seat and table (x and y coordinates) are passed to the rendering callbacks
• renderer: isObjectSelectable takes the default selectability (true or false) as a second argument

05/10/2015​

• designer: when creating a new chart, the user can choose between different types of venues. A default chart is shown based on the venue type, and inapplicable features are disabled
• designer/renderer: changed spinner so that it looks good on dark backgrounds
• designer: spaces in object labels are not converted to non breaking spaces anymore
• renderer: unavailableCategories and isObjectSelectable can be used together now
• designer: when clicking inside the background image input field, the background settings are not reset anymore
• technical: updated to Play! Framework 1.3.1 (Java 8 support)
• renderer: ticket types tooltip for general admission areas is scrollable when it contents is too high
• renderer: whitespace around seats is tappable (mobile) and clickable (desktop)
• renderer: on mobile, when tapping on a chart, the chart doesn't zoom in automatically
• renderer: added experimental feature to render row labels, which is disabled by default ('showRowLabels')

09/09/2015​

• designer/api: each bookable object now has a label and a unique UUID. This UUID does not change when changing the label of an object. So you now have the choice: booking by label (which can change) or by UUID (which doesn't).
• chart designer is now embeddable by using javascript API
• API: thumbnails are available via the API now
• bugfix: general admission bookings incorrectly changed the number of available tickets of a general admission area
• bugfix: whitespace is not converted to non breaking space anymore in the designer
• users have a separate designer key for embedding the chart designer
• renderer: pricing configuration is validated before rendering.
• renderer: cursor indicates when chart is in zoomed out mode
• renderer: pricing configuration is validated
• renderer bugfix: scrollOnPan can be disabled on IE now
• renderer bugfix: charts don't auto-scroll on mobile iOS devices anymore

13/08/2015​

• designer: blocks of rows can be drawn by click-dragging
• designer: selection mode is the default mode, not row mode
• renderer: added scrollOnPanEnabled (default: true)
• renderer: support for hiding bookable objects, via an isObjectVisible callback
• renderer: restyled legend
• renderer: a maximum number of tickets can be provided per ticket type (e.g. 3 adult, 2 child)
• bugfix: renderer dom elements are not selectable anymore
• bugfix: shapes with zero height or width cannot be drawn anymore in the designer
• bugfix: empty texts cannot be created anymore in the designer
• bugfix: objects with special UTF-8 characters in their name are handled correctly when their status changes in a rendered chart
• renderer: GA areas can be given multilevel pricing

08/06/2015​

• added missing DB evolutions scripts (Docker)

04/06/2015​

• renderer: added support for multiselect (using shift)
• renderer: added 'reserve on select' functionality (including timer to release reserved seats after 15 minutes).
• renderer: added objectCategory callback
• designer: improved performance for labels screen

07/05/2015​

• added support for websockets to replace regular polling
• made seats a bit smaller on mobile
• bugfix: texts are rendered above everything else
• improvements for color and font size (static texts)
• legend: changed font and made legend buttons smaller
• bugfix: could not delete freshly drawn booths
• added support for selecting best available seat across multiple categories
• added support for selecting whole categories: chart.selectCategories(ids)
• zoom controls are customizable
• added priceLevelsTooltipMessage to chart renderer config

13/04/2015​

13/04/2015​

• split up call to get initial event data and subsequent calls for new bookings

26/03/2015​

• thumbnails are cached, and rerendered when they're changed
• tooltip in chart renderer can by styled by passing in CSS styling through the tooltipStyle parameter
• added API call to copy charts
• rendered chart adapts to container div height if explicitly set - especially useful on mobile
• added 'showRowLines' config parameter (default = true). Set it to false to disable the connector lines that are drawn between seats of the same row.

20/02/2015​

• 'status' and 'selectable' are available as properties of the object passed to the onObjectXXX callbacks in the chart renderer
• rectangular booths of different sizes can be drawn now
• autoZoom is configurable (can be disabled and autoZoomFactor can be set)
• added general admission areas

06/02/2015​

• support for designing booth floor plans
• show object id in tooltip
• number of selected seats is shown when selecting rows or tables
• charts can be tagged to filter them in the dashboard

31/01/2015​

• bugfix for Event.getNumberOfBookedSeats: seats that were once booked and then released were counted twice

29/01/2015​

• When creating an event, you can choose if whole tables should be booked or table chairs
• Renamed 'seat' to 'object' (also in API parameters). E.g. onSeatSelected becomes onObjectSelected. The old callbacks still work though, for backwards compatibility
• onSelectedSeatBooked callback is now called when a selected seat gets booked by another user
• bugfix: fill color for tables without seats now works correctly

17/01/2015​

• added api endpoint to retrieve seatIds + statuses
• when scrolling, when the upper or lower edge of a chart is reached, the host page scrolls
• added shapes fill color
• chart designer: rows can be resized
• tables are rendered in the same color as their seats

08/01/2015​

• support for static shapes (circle and rectangle)

26/12/2014​

• API calls send "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" CORS response header
• auto-select next row label in label mode when tabbing
• added isSeatSelectable parameter to the rendering configuration. isSeatSelectable must be a function, that takes a seat as a parameter and returns true if that seat is selectable. One could for example use the seat status to determine if it's selectable or not.
• seating charts can be archived when they're obsolete

08/12/2014​

• added API call to change the status of a seat: /api/changeStatus. This allows for custom seat statuses, next to free and booked

02/12/2014​

• focal point can be set to indicate which seats are best when using 'best available seating'
• thumbs on dashboard: moved phantomjs away from seatsio-core to a separate service.
• multiple charts can be rendered on the same page
• rectangular tables
• ability to specify the same rotation angle for tables
• static content gets cached until a new Seats.io ### Version is deployed
• static content (e.g. stylesheets and css files) is gzipped to decrease loading times
• exposed select() and deselect() on seat object, so it can be used in config callbacks (e.g. onSeatSelected, onSeatDeselected, etc)

20/11/2014​

• added option to specify memcached config when running Seats.io as docker image
• labels can be shown on all screens (e.g. when choosing categories)
• label rotation equals row rotation
• added visual feedback (tooltip) when user taps an unselectable seat (mobile only)
• bugfix: section coloring when user has selected seats
• added sectionRenderingEnabled flag

06/11/2014​

• bugfix: whitespaces in static texts are rendered properly
• row labels are displayed more clearly

6/11/2014​

• Seats.io as it exists on Thu 6 Nov 2014. the whole #!