# Your festivals list

> From FilmScorecard Help: https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/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](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/overview.md)
- **Inbox** and **Judges directory**
- **Orders** and **Promo codes**, for owners and org admins
- [Categories and scorecards](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/categories-and-scorecards.md), and
  [the Scorecard Builder](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/building-a-scorecard.md) 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](#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](#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](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/adding-a-festival.md).

## What the amber number counts

The number counts the festival's open **Needs attention** items — the work on
the [Overview](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/overview.md) 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](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-overview.md), with the
   [Finish setting up](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/finishing-setup.md) 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](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/the-season-a-festival-opens-on.md).

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](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/the-season-a-festival-opens-on.md).
