Good use for cuelists?

Question

Hi - I've not used cuelists on the ION before so I'm asking if my application of them sounds like the right solution. I have ten students designing lights for twelve different musical dance numbers. The students will share the patch, groups, and palettes. In the good ol' days, I would assign students a range of cue numbers to stay within, i.e. Song 1 gets cues 1-9.9, Song 2 gets cues 10-19.9, etc. I'm thinking cueslists might be the better way to solve this problem. Running the show will require a smooth transition from one cuelist to another, ideally with a <GO> command that can automatically take us into Cue 1 of the next cue list. I was able to do all this in LightFactory so I'm pretty sure I'm not way out in left field. 
 What say you, more experienced users of the ION? Is this a proper application of the cue list? 
 
 Kevin Patrick

Steve Bailey · Accepted Answer

Yup, this is exactly how it's designed to be used. The Alvin Ailey Dance Company uses their Eos in exactly this way (or so I've been told), having ported over all the cumbersome lists on assorted floppies to the Eos. Every piece can start at 1, just on different lists. 
 You can either manually swap the primary fader to a new list with "Cue, 2/1, Enter, Load", or write a macro that does this and run the macro as a executable link on an appropriate last cue in the last list. The advantage to not going the macro route is it gives you a bit more flexibility if the program order changes. 
 Steve B.

JennNoel · Answer

You can also use link to link from one list to another (link is a softkey). This will automatically load the next cue list into the master playback. 
 
 Jenn