===Groups===

Groups are to be understood as groups of audience members moving through your show. They have the following properties:

  * **Time** - this is generally the time the group is scheduled to enter the show
  * **Colour** - this sets the colour of displays and objects associated from the group
  * **Size** - the number of audience members in the group; this can be set from the [[concepts:flow:queue|flow queue]] using the [[commands:flow_commands:flow_enqueue]] command, or entered from a front-of-house [[concepts:remotes|remote station]]
  * A **[[concepts:chat]]** log that moves with the group around remote stations - so show staff can see information on a group in their zone.
  * A collection of **[[concepts:groups:tags]]** that is derived from the chat log can be queried using the "contains" (^) operator in conditionals

Each time the first zone in the show [[concepts:flow]] advances (either with a single or universal advance), one of two things happens:

  * If there are groups in the [[concepts:flow:queue|flow queue]], a group is de-queued and added to the show flow
  * If not, a group is derived from the group moving ahead of it using the parameters given when the flow was set up using ''[[commands:flow_commands:flow_init]]''