A show floor is one area of your event’s exhibit hall, such as a main hall, lobby, or separate exhibit room. Its floor plan is the drawing for that area, including the booths, shapes, and labels your staff arrange on it. You build and edit the floor plan on the virtual show floor, which is the drawing surface you open from the event’s Show Floor page.
How the Pieces Fit Together
A show floor and its floor plan are separate records. The show floor is the exhibit area your event uses, and the floor plan is that floor’s single saved drawing. The floor plan is stored separately from the booths placed on it. When you open the virtual show floor for a show floor, you edit that floor’s one floor plan and select booths, shapes, labels, or exhibitors on the drawing to adjust their properties.
An event can have more than one show floor, and each show floor has its own floor plan. This lets you lay out a multi-room exhibit hall room by room instead of putting everything into one drawing.
Earlier Versions Are Not Kept
A floor plan is saved as a single document. When you save a new layout for a floor, Rhythm replaces that floor’s plan with the new version and does not keep the previous layout. If you need to return to an earlier arrangement, Rhythm cannot restore it after a newer layout has been saved over it. Before you make a change you might want to undo, export the layout or record it another way.
Warning
Rhythm does not keep earlier versions of a floor plan, so you cannot automatically reverse a major redesign after you save it. Confirm the new layout before saving, especially close to an event when exhibitors already expect a specific arrangement.
Deleting a Show Floor or an Event
When you delete an event, Rhythm also removes its show floors and their floor plans. When you delete one show floor, Rhythm removes that floor’s floor plan as well. Booths can block deletion, though, so a show floor or event that still has booths assigned to it may refuse to be deleted. If Rhythm does not delete a show floor or event, first check whether booths are still assigned to that floor or event.
Example
An association runs an annual conference with two exhibit areas: a main hall and a smaller lobby space. Each area is its own show floor, and each show floor has its own floor plan. Before the event, staff open the main hall’s virtual show floor, rearrange several booths to make room for a new sponsor’s larger footprint, and save the layout. After that save, Rhythm cannot recover the earlier arrangement, so staff keep their own record of the prior layout beforehand. When the event ends and staff later try to delete it, Rhythm refuses until the booths still assigned to both show floors are cleared.