Help addressing show

[dylan.paiva]

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I’m working on addressing a show in Finale3D and could use some help. I have a front position with a cake that fires 11 cues, followed by 9 rear positions shooting artillery.

What I’d like to achieve is assigning all 11 cake cues to a single module (Module 1), and then begin assigning the artillery cues at Position 1 to the next module (Module 2). I’ve tried several methods within Finale3D but haven’t been able to get the cue-to-module distribution to behave as intended.

Any guidance you can offer would be greatly appreciated—thank you in advance for your time and support!

[DrewFinale]

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Welcome to the Finale 3D forum!

 

Here are some questions to help us troubleshoot the issue:

1) What version of Finale 3D are you running?

2) What are the exact names of each of your firing positions?

3) When address your show, what options are you selecting for the ‘Order of assignment’?

[dylan.paiva]

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Hello, sorry for the delay, I have been running circles here recently.

 

1. Finale3D Hobbyist

2. The first line of positions is a cake line labeled C-01 to C-03, The back line is all artillery labeled P-01-09.

3. As of right now, I am using the following

1. Starfire

2. Position Name>Cake First>Event Time

3. Rack (Constraint)

 

Thank you in advance!

[DrewFinale]

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From your description, the sort order (i.e., order of assignment) that you’ve  chosen for addressing the show is Position Name > Cakes First > Event Time. With this configuration, the addressing process will go through the positions in alphabetical order. C-01 is your first position alphabetically, so this position will get module 1. Within each position, the addressing process will put cakes first, but if you have some positions that are all cakes and other positions that are all shells, then ‘Cakes First’ won’t do anything. It’s not hurting, and it’s not helping, because your positions don’t contain a selection of cakes and other types of items. Finally, after putting the cakes first (for positions that have cakes and other items), the addressing process assign addresses chronologically by event time.

 

You mentioned that you would like to address your cakes first. Since your cake positions come before your other positions alphabetically, this should be exactly what’s happening. Are you not getting module 1 at position C-01 when you address your show? If that’s not the issue,  can you give us a bit more detail on where are you running into trouble? What’s the first sign of something being different than what you would like?

[AviatorRuss]

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Dylan,

 

Have you tried looking at this Addressing the show using blueprints

 

I don’t use this method of addressing, so I’m not sure if it is PRO level only, or can be done with HOBBYIST.

 

-Russ

[DrewFinale]

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Hey AviatorRuss, thanks for jumping in — addressing blueprints are only available in Pro.

 

I’m really confident we can get dylan.paiva to a good place as soon as we get a bit more detail on where things aren’t working as desired.

[dylan.paiva]

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Hello, great news DrewFinale , AviatorRuss

 

I got it all sorted out! I would like to say thank you for the responses, they did lead me into the right direction!

 

My solution, was changing my addressing configuration to just Position Name > Event Time, but because I wanted all of my cakes to be on the same module, that is where I was running into issues. What I ended up doing was using the Custom Position Field constraint and labeling my cake line as custom positions!

 

I’m not sure if that was the easiest way of going about things, but that is what worked for me! Thank y’all again, Brownfield 4th of July will fly! (on the 3rd lol)

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