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When a cinema agrees a different week, you change the Start date on the Booking. DOS moves that one Booking, and everything that hangs off its date, by the same number of days. This page also shows how to read the Cinema run tab, which lists every week a film has played at that cinema.

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Before you start

  • You need permission to edit Bookings.
  • Know the exact Booking. A cinema can have several Bookings of the same film, one per language version. Each one has its own date.
  • A Booking whose invoice is issued, or that already has an imported definitive result, cannot be moved. See “If something looks wrong” below.

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Steps

1

Open the Booking

On Bookings, click the Booking row. The Booking panel opens.
2

Start editing the master data

In the header, click the pencil button (its tooltip is Edit booking master data). The Film, Cinema and Start date fields become editable.
3

Pick the new date

Choose the new Start date. The calendar only enables the first day of a cinema week for that cinema’s region: Thursday for D-CH and I-CH, Wednesday for F-CH. If another day gets through, DOS snaps it to the start of that cinema week.
4

Save

Click the save button in the header (its tooltip is Save master data changes). To back out, click the cancel button next to it (Cancel master data changes).

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What moves, and what does not

  • The Booking’s start and end dates, its screen days, its projection days and its settlement weeks all shift by the same number of days. A week keeps its length and every day keeps its weekday.
  • Exactly one Booking moves. The other language versions of the same film at the same cinema, in the same week, stay where they are. A date is agreed with a cinema per Booking, not per plan.
  • The DCP and KDM registers follow the new date. A KDM’s validity window and a DCP’s delivery date come from the Booking date, so DOS brings both in step in the background. See KDM and DCP Dispatch.
If the Booking was generated from a Release Strategy card, it no longer sits on the week that card plans. The card stays the authority over its own plan. A later date change on the card re-dates the Bookings the card owns.

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What you’ll see

The Start date and the Cinema week in the Booking header show the new week. The Booking’s screens grid and projection days appear on the new dates.

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Read the Cinema run tab

Open a saved Booking and click the Cinema run tab. It lists every Booking of the film at that cinema, from week one upwards.
  • The line above the table names the film and the cinema. When the film has other language versions, the Show Bookings of switch offers This version and All versions.
  • Three tiles sum up the run: Weeks played, Admissions and Box office. Admissions and box office use the official figure, else the provisional one.
  • Columns are CW (cinema week), Start, Condition, Adm., Box office CHF and Language. The row for the Booking you have open is highlighted.
  • A small P marks a preview and an S marks a special projection or single days. A cancelled Booking shows Cancelled and is left out of the totals.
  • An amber dot next to a figure means the week still has provisional results. The note reads: Provisional results: the official figures for that week are not in yet.

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If something looks wrong

The Booking carries an issued invoice or an imported definitive result, and DOS names the reason in the message. Issued invoices are never rewritten by a date move. Correct the invoice through its own review first. See Invoice statuses.
The field stays disabled until a cinema is chosen. It shows Select cinema.
The date was empty or not a real date. Pick it again in the calendar.
Reload the list. A colleague’s change is picked up live, but your own list can be a moment behind. See Live updates.
DOS updates them after the save. While a film is catching up, those pages show Updating and nothing is sent for it.