Demand and interest
Omnia shows how many eligible attendees favourited a session and compares that with the planned seats. Use it as a signal for choosing rooms and keeping sessions with the same audience apart. This page is for the programme planner and the organiser.
Favourites, reservations and capacity
These are three different numbers:
| Number | What it is | What it is not |
|---|---|---|
| Favourites (demand) | Unique attendees with a valid ticket who marked the session as a favourite. After the session’s day is announced, the ticket must cover that day. | A seat, a reservation or a promise to attend. |
| Reservations | Confirmed places for a session with the workshop-reservation attendance policy. | Something a favourite creates. |
| Capacity | The seats of the room layout in the planned time slots. | Known when a room or layout has no recorded capacity. |
A person counts once, however many tickets they hold. A suspended ticket does not count until it is restored. A missed measurement is a gap, not zero. Demand does not predict physical attendance.
Where you see demand
- Session list: the column Demand (private plan) shows eligible interest, planned capacity and the ratio, with a Warning or Critical badge. Measured at … under the table shows when the figures were read.
- Session page, Time slots tab: demand against the private and the published plan, plus Choices per time slot for a repeated session. There, attendees who chose a specific time count for that time slot.
- Planner: colour the time grid by Demand. A card reads, for example, 112 ♥ / 80: 112 interested, 80 seats. See the planner.
Only sessions in the published programme that are not cancelled have a demand figure; others show that demand is not available. Ask the Experts sessions have no demand figure.
Read the ratio
The ratio is eligible interest divided by the planned capacity of the session’s time slots.
- From 1.5× capacity the signal is Warning; from 2× it is Critical.
- If capacity is unknown or incomplete, the ratio is unknown. Omnia never shows it as zero.
A high ratio suggests a larger room, an extra time slot or a different time. A low ratio is not a reason to cancel by itself.
History and privacy
Omnia records aggregate demand every 15 minutes for editions that have not ended. A missed interval stays a gap and is not filled in afterwards. Each observation is kept for two years from the moment it was recorded; this period is fixed and not an installation setting.
Demand and shared audience are internal. They require programme management in the edition and show exact counts, including small numbers. Do not publish or share them outside the organisation.
What this does not mean
- Demand is advice. Omnia does not move, cancel or block anything because of it.
- A favourite never reserves a seat. For workshops, use reservations and the workshop rules.