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Provisional results are the unofficial daily figures for a Booking: admissions, box office and shows per day. They come from MaccsBox, from a cinema’s daily email, or from figures you type in. They let you follow a film while it plays. They are not the cinema’s settlement report, and they never replace it. You load MaccsBox figures from MaccsBox Import in the Programming group of the sidebar.

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Provisional and definitive figures

DOS keeps two kinds of figures for the same Booking and never mixes them silently. When the settlement report arrives, you check it and its figures replace the provisional ones. See Check a cinema report.

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Before you start

  • The films, cinemas and Bookings you want figures for already exist in DOS.
  • Your role needs edit rights on provisional results. Resolving held rows needs the admin or operations role. Without it, the Review table does not appear.

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Fetch a period from MaccsBox

1

Open MaccsBox Import

Choose MaccsBox Import in the sidebar. The period starts at the most recent Wednesday.
2

Choose the period

Pick Start Wednesday and End Wednesday. Both must be Wednesdays, and the end must be after the start. Use the arrows to move the period back or forward.
3

Narrow it down (optional)

Pick one film in the film list, or type in the Cinema, City, Payer or Language region boxes.
4

Select Fetch and stage

DOS asks MaccsBox for each week as its own report. You can leave the page while it loads. Refresh source fetches again without reusing a recent copy.
Each week shows as a chip: Waiting, Loading…, Failed, the number of rows, or No figures. A line above the table counts rows as imported, ready to import, to review and left out.

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Review the rows DOS could not place

DOS imports the rows it is sure about by itself. Rows that need a person appear in the Review table, grouped by why they wait:
  • Film and Cinema: DOS does not know the title or cinema as MaccsBox printed it.
  • Language version: the label does not clearly match one Booking of that week.
  • Format: another format (for example 3D) next to the standard one.
  • New Booking: the cinema has no Booking that week.
  • Day the Booking does not play: figures on a day outside the Booking’s playing days.
  • Held by the import and Cannot be read.
Each row has a Suggestion already selected, a Confidence bar and one button that answers it, such as connecting a film, connecting a Booking, creating a Booking or ignoring the row. Select a row to open its details and the figures by day.
For a language version, DOS suggests the version of the film that fits the MaccsBox label. Confidence tells you how clearly one option stood out. It does not tell you the option is right, so check it before you confirm.
Your decision is recorded. If you create a Booking, it is created then, and the import writes the figures.

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Import a CSV instead

Use Import CSV when you have a MaccsBox “Figures by day” export.
1

Choose the file

Select Choose CSV, then Prepare.
2

Reconcile

Match films and cinemas that were not found, or select Add as new film or Add as new cinema. Language labels are suggested from the film’s versions: choose a version and select Approve.
3

Create missing Bookings

Tick the Bookings to create and select Create … booking & continue, or Continue if none are needed.
4

Import

Select Import … results. Recent imports lists earlier files.

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What you’ll see

The figures appear on the Booking as provisional results. On Provisional Results, the Entry tab shows a week per Booking, with a MaccsBox feed or Imported result tag on imported days. The Full table tab lists every result with its Source. Imported figures are locked. Use the unlock button on the row if you must correct one.

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If something looks wrong

DOS never writes a row it had to guess. Answer the row with its button. A held row for a missing Booking needs the Booking created first.
The period and filters completed but returned no cinema and film figures. Widen the period or clear the filters.
The page says the weekly MaccsBox request failed. Open Background activity to review or retry.
The message “The end must be a Wednesday after the start.” means the end date was not later than the start.
The language MaccsBox printed does not match the Booking or is not approved. Select Review language labels on the CSV summary, or pick the Booking in the Review table.
The CSV page shows “You don’t have permission to import (operations only).” Ask an admin or operations user.
DOS also fetches MaccsBox by itself every morning at about 08:10 Swiss time, so most days you only need to answer the rows in Review.