> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://helpdesk.rhapsody.la/updates/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://helpdesk.rhapsody.la/updates/readme.md). # Rhapsody X (August 2026) This release is about **talking to musicians**, and knowing what you told them. The **call has been redesigned** from the ground up — email and page — with your brand on it and a **"What changed"** summary when you revise. **Broadcasts** reach your whole address book, **Polls** ask a question and collect the answers, and a new **change history** records who moved what. **Pre-Flight** checks a project or a whole season before you publish it, **Autopilot** learned to nudge in stages, and **Spaces & Bookings** turns your rooms into a bookable inventory. {% hint style="info" %} Some features in this release are available on request. If you don't see them yet, contact your Rhapsody admin or support to enable them. {% endhint %} ### ✉️ Modern Calls — the call, redesigned The convocation email and the page musicians answer on have both been rebuilt: a white ground, your brand colour as the accent, your typeface, your logo — and exactly the same information, better organised. * **Email and page match, block for block:** what a musician reads in their inbox is what they see when they tap through. No more two designs to keep in step. * **Your brand, your choices:** pick a **typeface**, choose whether to lead with a **masthead logo**, and set the **order of the sections** by dragging them — all on the Branding page, with a faithful live preview. * **"On this page":** the call page gets a documentation-style rail (and a mobile bar) so a long call can be skimmed and jumped through. * **Memos, in boxes:** a chair memo or a session note now reads as a callout instead of a run of text. * **Everything on the card:** answer, hold, decline and talkback all live on the card itself — hold by swiping up, and answers can be reset. * **Season calls are a deck:** a season invite presents one project at a time, full screen, with each project's own cover, answer and talkback. * **Messages in the page:** replies and messages sit in the page rather than in a chip bar at the edge. * **Talkback in the email:** whatever a musician wrote back is rendered in the call email itself. * **Wages read properly:** your written wage description appears above the computed breakdown, and benefits state the **amount**, with the rate as its basis. * **Movements:** a call can spell out which movements a musician is actually playing. * **Rolls out per organization:** turn it off and your organization returns to the classic call everywhere at once. *(Available on request.)* ### 🏛️ Spaces & Bookings A new module for organizations that own rooms: a room-level inventory, a public booking page, an approval workflow, and the paperwork that goes with it. * **A tree of spaces:** institution, building, floor, room — collapsible, searchable, with a space picker (icon and hierarchy) everywhere a location is asked for. * **Public page & QR code:** every room gets an unauthenticated page behind a QR token — description, photo, directions, accessibility notes, amenities, and your organization's own logo on it. * **Hours, holidays and limits, inherited:** set opening hours, closures and maximum booking length once, high in the tree, and every room below follows unless it configures things itself. * **Ask before you book:** build the questions a room needs answered on the room itself; answers are snapshotted onto the booking. * **Who may book:** tiered booking access by address-book group. * **Reviewers and an approval queue:** name reviewers per space, require unanimous approval with a single veto, search the queue, see what's **waiting on you** and what **needs attention** — and see exactly who decided, and when. * **One request, one booking:** the booking view is now the record, the form and the decision in one sectioned screen. Cancel it, **Book again** after a denial, and find any of it later by the **reference** somebody quotes at you. * **Quotes & invoices:** put a quote and an invoice on a booking, each with its own lifecycle — draft, sent, accepted, paid — record payments against it and let Rhapsody work out the balance. * **Contracts:** a contract policy that inherits down the space tree, with the same merge tags as your other templates. * **A calendar across every room:** a master calendar with filters, PDF export, a day strip that shows hours and holidays, drag-to-book, overlap warnings, and closures drawn in. Each room also publishes its own **calendar subscription link**, next to its QR code. * **Maps:** pin a room on a map, draw its perimeter, and manage the venue's calibrated architectural drawings on a Maps tab. * **Amenities:** icon and colour pickers, edited in a dialog rather than in grid cells. * **Tickets:** log the work somebody has to do to a space — a board, comments, attachments, and emails that tell the people on a ticket when it moves, with a link straight to the booking. * **Work sessions at a space:** schedule a work session into a room instead of a venue and Rhapsody mirrors it as a booking, linked back to the project. * **Branded mail:** usher emails lead with the room and the time, carry your logo, and tell bookers and attendees when a booking is released. * **On the musician:** a musician's own room bookings show on their profile and in their Insights. *(Available on request.)* ### 📣 Broadcasts Mass email to your address book, outside any project or season. * **The audience is a set of rules:** groups, substitutes, vendors, custom fields — combined, previewed, and counted before you send. * **It keeps matching:** a broadcast can keep reaching musicians added to the address book later, at a send frequency you choose. * **Merge tags:** placeholders in the subject and the body fill in from the recipient and their custom fields. * **Review before sending:** see the resolved audience and the finished message, then send. * **Broadcast to a selection:** start one from musicians you've already picked in the address book. * **Search, paging and stats** on the broadcast list, and an unsubscribe path for recipients. *(Available on request.)* ### 🗳️ Polls Ask a project's or a season's musicians a question and read the answers — they reply on the play page, the same way they answer a call. * **Predefined choices or freeform**, and **several questions** in one poll. * **In the Messages section:** polls sit with a musician's messages rather than interrupting a call, and are dressed as a modern call for organizations that have it. * **Optional public results:** let respondents see how everyone answered. * **Read the answers where you work:** a results widget on the project, an **Excel** export, and a poll-results block for **Booklets**. *(Available on request.)* ### ⚡ Revisions, explained The revision bolt used to tell you something changed. Now it tells you what, and lets you close it out on the record. * **Why the bolt is lit:** a five-second explainer listing the actual changes behind the flag — times, venue, seat, repertoire, dress code. * **Dismiss it, on the record:** if a musician genuinely doesn't need telling, dismiss the flag with a reason — recorded on their call history, and no revision call goes out. * **You decide what matters:** a new **Revisions** settings page maps every kind of change to **critical**, **important**, or **ignore**, grouped by Schedule, Seat and Repertoire. A reschedule is critical by default. * **"What changed" in the call:** a revision call can open with a summary of what moved since the musician last heard from you, built from the change history — nothing extra to write when you send. *(Available on request.)* ### 🕰️ Change history Rhapsody now keeps a record of who changed what, and when — and shows it in two places. * **Activity tab** on every project: a filterable, condensed feed of changes with the author's name and avatar. * **Hiring history** on every seat: the story of that chair, from the first call to the last replacement. * **By position:** the event timeline can be read per position, not just per musician. * **Names survive removal:** a musician taken off a project stays named in the history. * **It was recording all along:** turning the power-up on reveals what has already accrued. *(Available on request.)* ### ✅ Pre-Flight Run the checks before you publish, on a project or on a whole season — computed server-side, so it's fast on big programs. * **On a project:** duplicate and archived-but-active musicians, availability conflicts, pieces with no chairs or nobody playing them, misplaced musicians, inconsistent orders, doubled roles, empty chairs, and no work sessions at all. * **On a season:** projects missing a dress code, projects disagreeing on dress code or wage settings, and a season feeding more than one payroll. * **Acknowledge with a note:** wave off an issue you've decided to live with — with your name, your reason and a date on it — and read the **History** tab later. ### 🤖 Autopilot, smarter * **A nudge ladder:** sequence up to **five** nudges, each with its own words, instead of a single reminder. * **Pick the count:** choose how many times a project should nudge, from one to five. * **Presets:** save an Autopilot setup once, name it, and start new projects from it — renameable, deletable, and never able to switch Autopilot on or off behind your back. * **See it on the list:** the project list marks which projects are on autopilot. * **A Journal** of what ran, what's queued and what you can still cancel — and simply opening a project no longer rewrites its automation. *(Available on request.)* ### 🔍 Global search A search box in the app bar that finds **projects, people, pieces, tickets, bookings and rooms** at once. The categories it offers follow your organization's other power-ups. *(Available on request.)* ### 🎭 Stage Maps The Stage Map builder introduced last month gained the things you asked for immediately. * **Venue stage templates:** save a stage setup on the venue and reuse it on any project. * **Copy, cut, paste and duplicate** annotation items — and undo. * **PDF export** alongside PNG. * **Architectural venue drawings:** upload the room's real drawing, calibrate it to scale, and map front-of-house — stored on the venue, so every project gets it. * **More stage furniture:** chair and stand counts, cello chairs, extra and standing chairs, lines and dimensions. *(Available on request.)* ### 🧭 Make Rhapsody yours * **Main menu:** reorder it, group items into your own folders, rename them, and hide the ones you never use — set once for the whole organization. * **Project top bar:** pin the blocks you live in, tuck the tabs you don't into a **More** page, and unpin from a long-hover control. Embedded pages render condensed so a lot fits on one screen. * **Settings:** a vertical nav with grouped, iconed sections and its own search box, on a shared card design across every tab. ### Mission Control & Seating * **Insert an empty chair** directly above or below a seat. * **Hide a chair for a single work session** from the chair ⋮ menu, without touching the rest of the project. * **Partial families:** a family that only plays some work sessions is flagged, and its date blocks filter the view. * **Compact view on templates** too. ### Repertoire & Library * **A simple name for a work:** give a piece the short name musicians actually read — on the library work itself (used by every project) or overridden on a single project. The repertoire list shows it in place of the full title, with a way back. * **Movements, collapsed:** long movement lists fold up, with All / None to set them in one go, and a call can spell out just the movements a musician plays. * **Tighter librarian rows** in the condensed More box. ### Booklets & Rosters * **Custom Blocks:** build your own booklet blocks from project data — fields and loops — instead of waiting for us to add one. * **Roster as a table:** a second layout with one row per musician (Section, Chair, Name, Notes), in the PDF roster and in booklets. * **Subs labelled** with black rules, honouring the work session picker. * **Mailed parts:** tick off whose parts went in the post from the assignments grid, and show it on the roster. * **Quote and invoice fields** in the booklet editor. ### Work Sessions * **Type a date and time without the mouse:** fields focus and advance on their own, Tab moves through them, and the pickers are now ours — so 24-hour entry works properly. * **Wider fields, a default duration**, and **time TBC** when you don't know it yet. ### Musicians & Address Book * **Custom fields on the musician's side:** the fields you define now show on a musician's own profile and organization page in the musician app, labelled with your organization's name and logo. * **Their bookings:** any rooms a musician has booked appear on their profile and in their Insights. ### Payroll * **Pension Comp / Non Pension Comp columns**, with invoice rates sent through. * **Import mileage from a spreadsheet**, matched on names. * **Map spreadsheet columns onto musician flags** during import. * **Payroll Services Addendum** agreed to on submit. * **Vendor invoice and W-9 uploads** fixed. ### Calendar * **Subscribe in one click:** the ICS feed now has a direct subscribe link, and it keeps serving even when a studio is unreachable. ### 🧠 AI & MCP Your assistant learned this month's features. New tools cover **venues and spaces**, **custom blocks**, **broadcasts**, **season-level notifications**, **polls**, the **activity log**, **email digests**, and **Autopilot**. ### Onboarding * **A to-do checklist** assigned by the Rhapsody team, as a card on your home page beside the stat widgets — opening into a dialog, and finishing with confetti. ### Misc * **Season Overview:** each project's **removed musicians**, a deduplicated **contacts sheet** in the export, and headers that stay pinned as you scroll. * **Default project colour**, and recolouring straight from the projects grid. * **Reusable content libraries** (greetings and other presets) have a home in Settings, and can be reordered. * **Contracts:** *TBD* for an unset role or unset repertoire, and role detail you can opt out of. * **Wage descriptions** stay editable when wages are computed automatically.