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Configuring extensions
Audience: Event organisers setting up an installed extension for their events.
An extension can have settings at two levels: settings for this computer, shared by every event, and settings for one event. This page covers both, and switching an extension on for an event.
Using an extension in an event
An installed extension does nothing in an event until the event switches it on:
- Open the event and click Event details.
- Go to the Extensions tab. Every installed extension is listed with a switch.
- Switch on the ones this event should use. An extension with per-event settings shows them as soon as it's on.
- Click Save.
Its tile then appears on the event's dashboard. Like any tile, you can hide it or move it with Edit dashboard. See The event dashboard.
Some tiles only work while the event is running, for example one that fetches entries from elsewhere on the day. Before the event starts and after it finishes, such a tile shows a placeholder and fetches nothing.
The two levels of settings
| Level | Where | Applies to | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| This computer | The Extensions page: the extension's settings button | Every event on this computer | An account, a key, an address the extension connects to |
| This event | Event details → Extensions, under the extension's switch | This event only | Which spreadsheet, which classes, a colour for this event |
Which settings an extension has, at either level, is up to whoever wrote it. Each is a switch, a text box, a number or a choice of colour, with the extension's own label.
Settings for this computer
On the Extensions page, click the extension's settings button (it only has one if the extension has settings for this computer), change them, and click Save (Settings saved.). They apply to every event straight away; reload an open dashboard to be sure a tile has picked them up.
Settings for an event
In Event details → Extensions, change the fields under the extension's switch, then Save the event details. They're saved with the event, so they go with it in a backup and when it's moved to another computer, unlike the settings for this computer.
Copying settings to another event
There's no copy button. A duplicated event keeps its extensions switched on with the same settings; otherwise, switch the extension on in the new event and fill its settings in again.
Getting back to the defaults
There's no reset button, and settings are kept on purpose:
- An event's settings start from the extension's own defaults the first time you switch it on. Switching it off and on again keeps what you had set.
- Settings for this computer are kept when you remove the extension, so installing it again, or a newer version, brings them back.
To go back to the defaults, set each field back by hand.
What a tile remembers by itself
Separately from its settings, a tile may remember things as you use it — what you last picked in it, say. That memory is kept in the browser of the computer you're at, for that event only. It isn't shared with other computers, doesn't go into a backup, and is lost if that browser's site data is cleared.