Groups pane

The Groups pane shows all the guests in the current plan arranged in their groups.

Appearance

The icon shown for a guest is determined from the details you have entered about their gender and age.

Guests who have declined or cancelled are shown with strikethrough text. Guests who have not been assigned to seats are shown in bold. Guests who are locked are shown with underlined text.

The icon shown for a group is based on PerfectTablePlan's best guess at whether the group is a family, couple etc. The group icon is just a visual cue, it doesn't affect anything else.

Click on the More button ( on Macintosh) to allow you to choose which columns are displayed.

Mode

drag & drop

To assign seats left click on one or more guests or groups and drag them to a seat or table in the Floor plan pane, Table plan or Schematic pane.

To change group membership left click on one or more a guests or groups and drag them from one group to another within the Groups pane

Right click or Ctrl+Click on a guest or group to display actions in a pop-up menu.

Double-click on a guest or group to display the Properties window.

Select more than one guest or group by using Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click/ +Click. Use Ctrl+A/ +A to select everything in this pane.

edit

Click on a guest or group property to edit it.

Use the Enter, Tab or Ctrl+arrow keys/ +arrow keys to change row or column. Use the Space or arrow down keys to edit a drop-down list.

Actions

Type text in the Find field to select a guest or group by name. E.g. if you type "jo" it will first try to find a guest or group with a name beginning with "jo" (e.g. John) and if it can't find one it will try to find a guest or group whose name contains "jo".

Click on the Group name headers to sort groups by that column.

Note that changing the RSVP status of a guest from Accepted may unassign them from their seat, depending on your settings in the Preferences window.

Drop a plan file onto this pane to open it. Drop a vCard, text or CSV file onto this pane to import it.

Drag a guest from another PerfectTablePlan window to add them to the current plan.

Note Deleting a group deletes all the guests in it.