Your festivals list

At the bottom of the left navigation, on your organization's own screens, sits a short list headed Festivals — one row per festival, in whatever order you put them, each with an amber number when something in that festival needs attention. It is the quickest way from an organization screen back into a festival's season.

Where it appears

The Festivals list belongs to the screens that belong to your organization rather than to any one festival — every screen reached from the rows at the top of the navigation, and Your account:

• Overview
• Inbox and Judges directory
• Orders and Promo codes, for owners and org admins
• Categories and scorecards, and the Scorecard Builder inside it
• Organization settings, for owners and org admins
• Your account

It is not on a festival's own screens. The dashboard, Submissions and the rest already carry your festival's name and its season navigation, so there the list would repeat a job the sidebar is already doing. To move between festivals from one of those screens, use the button with your festival's name in the top bar. It lists your festivals A to Z and, once there are two or more, opens with a Search festivals box: type part of a name to narrow the list.

The section is missing entirely — no heading, no divider, no "nothing here" message — when there is nothing to list. See Which festivals appear.

Reading the list

• The heading reads Festivals, with no count beside it.
• Each row is a festival: a small rounded square with two letters, then the festival's name. The letters are the first letter of each of the first two words — "Coastal Music Video Prize" shows CM. A one-word name uses its first two letters, so "Winterlight" shows WI.
• A long name wraps onto a second line, or more, and the row grows to fit, so the whole name is always there to read.
• An amber number at the right of a row is how many things in that festival need attention — see What the amber number counts. No number means nothing is waiting; a row never shows a 0. It is the same number the festival carries in the festival switcher in the top bar.
• + Add festival sits under the last row, for owners and org admins only. See Adding a festival.

What the amber number counts

The number counts the festival's open Needs attention items — the work on the Overview that has stopped or is about to lapse:

• FilmFreeway sync paused
• FilmFreeway categories to match
• Judge invites about to expire — within 3 days
• Categories without enough judges — only while judging is open, or opens within 14 days
• Judging hasn't opened — its start date has passed and nobody has pressed Open judging

How it adds up:

• It counts problems, not things. Twelve invites about to expire in one season count as 1, and so do five categories short of judges.
• So it can read lower than the Overview. The Overview's header, its Festivals control and its table's Needs attention column count every item. For now the two are worked out differently, so a season with those twelve invites and five categories shows 2 here and 17 on the Overview.
• Each season counts on its own. Two seasons that each have invites about to expire count as 2. Completed and archived seasons never count.
• It counts only what your role lets you deal with. The two FilmFreeway items count for people who can change the festival's settings, expiring invites for people who manage judges, and an unopened season for everyone on it except viewers. Categories short of judges count for anyone who can open the season. So two colleagues can see different numbers on the same festival.
• It keeps itself up to date, checking again every 30 seconds while the tab is in front of you, on every screen.
• If the number cannot be read, no number is shown — never a 0 and never an error.

The Overview row at the top of the navigation carries the total of every festival's number.

Which festivals appear

One row for every festival in this organization that you can open and that has at least one season.

• A festival with no season yet is left out. There is no season screen to send you to, so it gets no row at all rather than a row that leads nowhere. Give it a season and it appears.
• Only festivals you can reach. Another organization's festivals can never appear here.

Because of the first rule, the list can hold fewer festivals than the "Organization, 3 festivals" line in the top bar, which counts every festival you have, seasons or no seasons. If the two disagree, a festival is waiting for its first season.

If nothing qualifies — a brand-new organization, say — the whole section is left out, heading included.

Opening a festival

1. Choose a row.
2. You land on that festival's dashboard for the season it opens on — the same place the festival switcher in the top bar sends you: the Season overview, with the Finish setting up strip above it while that season is still a draft.

Which season that is: the one somebody has starred in the season switcher, or — when no season is starred, or the starred one has been archived — the season that was created most recently. See The season a festival opens on.

On a phone or a narrow window, choosing a row also closes the Menu drawer.

Putting the list in your own order

The list starts in A–Z order by name. You can put it in any order you like, by dragging or from the keyboard, and it stays that way.

By dragging

1. Point at a row. The two letters at its left fade into a grip of six dots. That grip is the handle — it is the one part of the row you drag from. Anywhere else on the row, a press just opens the festival.
2. Press the grip and drag. With a mouse the row lifts once you have moved a few pixels, so a click on the grip still opens the festival. On a touch screen, hold still for a moment before you move; a quick tap opens the festival instead.
3. The other rows move aside as you go, opening the gap where the row will land — the same way question rows behave in the scorecard builder. There is nothing to interpret: what you see is the order you will get. The row you picked up stays where it was, dimmed.
4. Release. The list settles into its new order and you stay on the screen you were on.

Nothing is saved unless something actually moved:

• Dropping a row back where it started changes nothing.
• Releasing outside the list, or pressing Escape before you release, leaves the order exactly as it was.
• Every position can be reached by dragging, the very bottom included.

From the keyboard

1. Press Tab until a festival row has the indigo focus ring. The grip appears on focus just as it does on hover.
2. Press Alt + ↑ or Alt + ↓ — Cmd + ↑ and Cmd + ↓ work too — to move that row one position per press.
3. The row keeps the focus as it moves, so press again to keep going.

Plain ↑ and ↓, with nothing held down, are left alone and scroll as usual.

Every move is announced for screen readers: "Coastal Music Video Prize moved to position 3 of 6." A press at the top or the bottom of the list announces the unchanged position rather than saying nothing, so you can tell the key registered.

Where your order is kept, and where it does not go

The order is yours alone, on this browser, for this organization. It is saved in the browser you are using and never on your account, which has consequences worth knowing:

• It does not follow you. Another computer, another browser, or a private window shows the plain A–Z list.
• Nobody else sees it. Your colleagues each have their own order, and rearranging yours changes nothing for them.
• Each organization is separate. If you belong to more than one, they keep their orders independently.
• Another tab picks it up. A second tab already open on the same organization follows the new order — unless you rearranged the list in that tab as well, in which case it keeps its own until you reload it.
• Clearing your browser's stored site data clears it, and the list returns to A–Z.

The order is a different thing from the starred season. Your arrangement of these rows is private to your browser; which season a row opens on belongs to the festival and is the same for everybody in the organization.

Two things change the list without you:

• A new festival goes to the bottom, not into its alphabetical place. Once you have chosen an order, nothing rearranges it around you.
• A festival you can no longer open simply leaves the list. The rest keep their positions and no gap is left behind.

If your browser will not let a page store anything — private browsing, or storage that is full — rearranging still works for as long as you stay on the page, but the order is forgotten when you reload. In the rare case that a saved order cannot be read back, the list quietly returns to A–Z and starts again from there.

On a phone or a narrow window

The sidebar becomes a bar across the top with a Menu button, and the Festivals list sits at the bottom of the drawer that Menu opens.

• Rows are taller, so they are comfortable to tap.
• The drawer scrolls as one surface — the festivals list does not become its own small scrolling box with the organization rows frozen above it.
• Tapping a festival opens it and closes the drawer.
• Press and hold the two letters at the left of a row to drag it; a tap anywhere on the row opens the festival. The grip dots are not revealed by tapping, so a row you have tapped is never left looking picked up — hold the two-letter mark and the row lifts all the same.

Smaller things worth knowing

• On a wide window the list scrolls inside itself when you have more festivals than fit, so the organization rows above it stay put. There is no "show more", no paging and no search — every festival you can reach is in the list.
• The list can settle into place as a page loads. It may paint in A–Z order for an instant and then snap to your order. That is expected.
• Your order is never part of an address. Sending a colleague the link to one of these screens sends them the screen, not your arrangement of the sidebar.
• With the navigation folded down to icons (the Collapse navigation button beside the FilmScorecard mark), each festival is its two-letter block alone, in your order. A festival with something waiting shows an amber dot on its block instead of a number; pointing at the block names the festival and how many items need attention. Rows cannot be rearranged while the navigation is folded.

Who sees the list

Every signed-in member of your organization, owners and staff alike. There is no read-only version of it. Two things in it do depend on your role: the amber numbers count only what your role lets you deal with, and + Add festival is there for owners and org admins only. Anyone else who opens one of these addresses sees an ordinary "page not found" before any sidebar is drawn, and a logged-out visitor is sent to the log-in screen first.

Everybody's rows go to the same season, whatever their role: the starred season is a property of the festival, and only owners and org admins can move the star — see The season a festival opens on.