Feature Request: Bulk add seats / batch seat creation

[nhardiansa]

Problem

Currently, seats need to be added one by one.
For large venues (cinemas, halls, auditoriums), this becomes time-consuming and error-prone.

Use Case

In real-world event and venue setups, organizers often need to create hundreds of seats with similar configurations (rows, spacing, categories).
Manually adding seats significantly slows down the layout creation process.

Proposed Solution

It would be helpful to have a bulk seat creation feature, for example:

• Generate seats by specifying number of rows and seats per row
• Control spacing and starting position
• Or provide a helper/API to generate seats from a configuration object

This would greatly improve productivity for large seat layouts.

Happy to help with discussion or implementation if this aligns with the project direction.
Thanks for maintaining this library!

[Akalanka47000]

Hi @nhardiansa thank you for the proposal. This was in fact one of the top things that we had on our wishlist when building this library but due to time limitations we just decided to skip it for the time being. A workaround which we used when designing large layouts like what you are doing so what we do is use the duplicate option (ctrl+D) after laying out a row after selecting them. This allows us to exponentially place out seats quite fast than placing them one by one. I understand that it is not the same level of ease as a bulk creation feature but for us it made life a bit easier and perhaps it might for you as well.

That being said, perhaps it is time to actually try and add a couple of more features into this including what you are proposing. However it will take a bit of time from my end. The main problem I have right now is that how will such a feature incorporate into the UI / UX of this. I'm not much of a UI person and this is where I get stuck at. If we can actually finalize a flow of how a user will proceed to use this feature, perhaps that would be a good starting point