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Capital Asset Reservation Policy

Trade Show Capital Assets are Fixed Assets (like your Booth, or, your Displays) that get borrowed from storage, and are expected to return back to storage after each trade show.

ExhibitDay‘s default reservation policy prevents you from reserving a Capital Asset if it is already reserved for another event during the same reservation period.

Changing the Reservation Policy for a Capital Asset

In order to change the reservation policy for a given Capital Asset in your ExhibitDay workspace, click on [Manage Assets], then select the Capital Asset you would like to modify. On the Asset view page, click “Reservation Policy” under the extended menu of the tab strip.

Capital Asset Reservation Policies

There are three different Reservation Policies that can be set for a given Capital Asset: Strict, Moderate, and Liberal.

Strict (default policy)

The Asset is available for reservation only on dates when no other reservation is made.
Example: If the Asset is checked out or reserved from Feb 17, 2021, to Feb 21, 2021, no other reservation can be made during those dates (not even on the return date — Feb 21, 2020). The next date asset can be checked out or reserved will be the day after this Asset has been returned to storage — Feb 22, 2021.

Moderate

The Asset is available for reservation on dates when no other reservation is made, plus, the check-out and return date of all reservations (i.e. the asset shows as ‘Available for Reservation’ on the first and last day of a given reservation).
Example: If the Asset is checked out or reserved from Feb 17, 2021, to Feb 21, 2021, no other reservation can be made Feb 18, 2021 – Feb 20, 2021. This allows you to reserve the Asset for another event on the check-out date as well as the return date (e.g. the Asset arrives to storage on the morning of Feb 21, 2021, and gets checked out for another event the afternoon of Feb 21, 2021).

Liberal

No blocked dates — the Asset will always show as “Available for Reservation” (even if other/conflicting reservations exist).
Example: If the Asset is checked out or reserved from Feb 17, 2021, to Feb 21, 2021, the system will allow other reservations to be made during the same time period.

Searching for Your Events + Other ExhibitDay Updates

Based on user feedback, the following enhancements have been made in ExhibitDay.

Search for Events + Recently Viewed

The new Search button (top-right of the menu bar) will pop open a search dialog that allows you to search for your events by name. In this new dialog, you’ll also notice a list of the last few events that you’ve viewed in your ExhibitDay workspace.

Regular (non-cursive) Font for your Notes Fields

If you’d rather not use the default cursive font in the Notes fields (under the Info, Booth, Budget, and ROI tabs), you can now go to your Workspace Settings and disable that option.

Multi-line Custom Fields

ExhibitDay’s Custom Fields have been enhanced to allow for multi-line text.
In order to enable multi-line mode for a Custom Field: go to Workspace Settings > Customize Event Fields. Then, click the pencil icon for the Custom Field you’d like to edit and change it to “Multi-line text field”.

[All] Button for the Event [Playbook] Tab

You can now view the full Event Playbook (prep schedule, event schedule, and the schedule afterward) — all at once. Click the new [All] button under the Playbook tab of any Event to see the full Playbook.

Trade Show Asset Management

We’re excited to announce the [Beta] release of ExhibitDay’s Asset Management Module.

You can now track and manage your Capital Assets (like your booth and displays) as well as Collateral (like swag and marketing material) in ExhibitDay.

Reserving Assets for Your Trade Shows

You can reserve assets for your trade shows under each Event’s [Assets] tab.

Asset Management Access Control

Like all other ExhibitDay modules, access to Managing Assets and Making Reservations for Events can be controlled in the team workspace > user management area.

Attachment Categories and Downloading All File Attachments for your Events

The file attachments for events just got two new enhancements: Attachment Categories, and the ability to download all attachments at once.

Attachment Categories – Attachments (under the Event [Attachments] tab) are now organized into their corresponding categories.
Download All – You can now download all the attachments for your events at once (in .zip format).

Attachment Categories

File attachments for each event are organized into the following categories:

General Attachments – General file attachments that are uploaded directly from each Event’s attachment tab.
Event Info Attachments – Attachments from fields under the Event [Info] tab (like Exhibitor Prospectus, Exhibit Hall Floor Plan, etc.)
Booth/Booth Service Attachments – i.e. Booth invoices.
Travel Attachments – i.e. Hotel/Flight invoices.
Shipment Attachments – i.e. invoices for Shipments.
Sponsorship Attachments – i.e. invoices for Sponsorships.
Other/Misc. Expenses Attachments – i.e. invoices for mischievous expenses.

Download All File Attachments

Downloading All Attachments for a Given Event:

To download all the attachments for a given event, click on the [Download All] button (under the [Attachments] tab of the event).

Downloading All Attachments for All Events:

To download all file attachments for all your events, go to “Workspace Settings” from the top menu, and click “Export Workspace Data” from the extended menu on the Workspace Settings page; then, click the “Export All Attachments” link.

The ability to attach files is included in the ExhibitDay Professional and Premium plan.

Data Export – All Your Trade Shows and Exhibits in Spreadsheet Format

Just Released – Enhanced export functionality to download your event data in ExhibitDay.

How to Export Your Data in ExhibitDay

To Export your data in spreadsheet format, select [Workspace Settings] from the top navigation menu, then select “Export Workspace Data” from the extended menu of the Workspace Settings tab strip.

Trade Shows and Exhibits Export to Spreadsheet

What Can be Exported?

Pretty much every piece of information you have entered about your trade show and exhibits in ExhibitDay can be exported to spreadsheet format (.csv).

Export: All Events

You can Export all the basic information about your events in your ExhibitDay workspace to CSV format. This export includes event names, start/end dates, booth information, and other miscellaneous information about each event.

Sample Export: ExhibitDay_Export_Events.csv

Export: All Event Date Details

This export includes a list of all the events and their date/time details (i.e. booth setup/dismantle dates/times, exhibit hall dates/times, etc.).

Sample Export: ExhibitDay_Export_Event_Date_Details.csv

Export: All Event Booth Services

This export includes a list of all your events and their booth services.

Sample Export: ExhibitDay_Export_Event_BoothServices.csv

ExporT: All Event Attendees

This export includes a list of all your event attendees for each event.

Sample Export: ExhibitDay_Export_Event_Attendees.csv

Export: All Travel Reservations

This export includes all the travel and lodging reservations for your event attendees.

Sample Export: ExhibitDay_Export_Event_Travel_Reservations.csv

Export: All Shipments

This export includes all the shipments associated with your events.

Sample Export: ExhibitDay_Export_Event_Shipments.csv

Export: All Sponsorships

This export includes all the sponsorships for your events.

Sample Export: ExhibitDay_Export_Event_Sponsorships.csv

Export: All Playbook Schedules

This export includes all the scheduled items in your event Playbooks.

Sample Export: ExhibitDay_Export_Event_Playbook_Schedules.csv

Export: Miscellaneous/Other Expenses

This export includes all the Misc/Other Event-Specific Expenses for your events.

Sample Export: ExhibitDay_Export_Event_Misc_Other_Expenses.csv

Export: Tasks

This export includes all the general tasks and event-specific tasks in your ExhibitDay workspace.

Sample Export: ExhibitDay_Export_Tasks.csv

How Export Annual Budgets and ROI Calculations for your Events

You can also export the breakdown of budget allocation and ROI calculations for all your events on an annual basis.

The ability to export your data is included in the ExhibitDay Premium plan.

Category: Trade Show Management