The seating plan shows who stands next to whom in which row at a rehearsal or performance. The choir leadership or an admin attaches it to an appointment in the browser, in the "Seating plan" row of the appointment form. After that, all singers see it on the appointment, on the web and in the app, with their own spot highlighted and described in words.
This is about your choir's stage. You set up the audience seats for a concert in cori Tickets, see Drawing a seating plan.
Creating a seating plan
- Open the appointment and choose who's invited
Create an appointment or open an existing one via the . Ideally, first choose under Members who is invited: a new seating plan starts with exactly these members (or with the whole choir if you haven't picked anyone), each in their voice part. Anyone without a voice set ends up in the "No voice part" group.
- Open the “Seating plan” row
You'll find it in the appointment form below Location. If another appointment already has a seating plan, cori first asks under "Add seating plan": Create a new seating plan or Take over from an appointment. You can pick from up to eight other appointments with a seating plan, each shown with its date and the number of singers and rows. If you take one over, cori matches its singers with the people invited to this appointment.
- Adjust the seating plan
The editor opens with a seating plan that's already been calculated. On the left (on small screens via the button at the bottom) are the Singers and Voice Parts tabs. On the stage, drag singers to a different spot with the mouse. Use Edit stage layout to add or remove rows and spots; cori carries the current arrangement over to the new stage.
- Let cori rearrange everyone (optional)
At the bottom, choose a formation: "Sectional (Rows)", "Sectional (Columns)", "Mixed (Quartet / Scrambled)" or "Hybrid". With Generate Layout, cori rearranges everyone. If singers are already on the stage, cori checks with you first under "Overwrite Layout?", because spots you assigned by hand will be lost.
- Save
Click Save at the top of the editor. The row in the form then shows how many singers and rows the seating plan has, for example "24 singers · 3 rows". It's saved together with the appointment, so finish with Save appointment. The cross on the right of the row removes the seating plan from the appointment again.
What else you can set in the editor
In the Singers tab, Add Singer also lets you add people who aren't in cori, such as guests for a concert. Click a person in the list to store details that help when generating: voice part, height, confidence, volume, whether they should stand next to less confident singers as an anchor singer, a front row preference and notes.
These planning details stay with the choir leadership and admins. Members only see names, voice parts and spots in the seating plan.
The Voice Parts tab shows the note: "The voice parts come from your choir members' voices. Only change them here if this seating plan should differ from that."
Changing a seating plan later
On an appointment's detail page, the Seating plan card shows a for the choir leadership and admins. It opens the same editor. Whatever you save there applies immediately ("Seating plan saved"), without members getting a notification. The trash can icon in the editor removes the seating plan entirely; cori warns you first: "The seating plan is removed from this appointment. This can't be undone."
For a recurring appointment, the seating plan belongs to the whole series. The card then shows "Applies to every date in the series", and so does the editor when you open it from the detail page. If a single appointment in the series needs a different arrangement, edit it in the appointment form and save with "Only this event", see Changing a single appointment in a series.
How singers see their seating plan
On the appointment's page there's the Seating plan card with a small view of the stage, your own spot highlighted and a sentence like "You stand in row 2 of 3, between Anna and Ben." Anyone who's in the seating plan but doesn't have a spot yet reads "You don't have a spot in this seating plan yet."
If it doesn't work
- "Only in cori web": You can't create seating plans in the app. Open cori in your browser and edit the appointment there.
- The pencil is missing on the card: You're neither choir leadership nor an admin, or the appointment has been cancelled. Either way, you only create a new seating plan in the appointment form, not on the detail page.
- "Save" in the editor stays grey: There's no finished arrangement yet, or cori is still calculating. Wait until the stage is ready, or click "Generate Layout".
- Your customised stage doesn't have room for everyone: When generating, cori then asks whether to keep the stage or recalculate it. "Recalculate stage" creates the right number of spots.
- A new member is missing from the seating plan: Open the editor and click "Sync members". Then give the person a spot. If the appointment isn't for the whole choir, invite the person under "Members" first.
What's next?
- Creating appointments: Creating appointments and rehearsals
- Who's invited to an appointment: Setting and tracking attendance
- Keeping members' voice parts up to date: Changing a member's voice pitch
- The audience seats: Drawing a seating plan