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Organize with sections
Sections group slots under headings on your public form — think “Food,” “Setup crew,” “Cleanup” on one potluck sheet. They keep a long form scannable, and an empty section doubles as a plain text block.
Add a section
Open your sheet's editor.
From the dashboard, click the sheet you want to organize. The + Add a section button sits at the top of the Slots tab.
Give it a heading.
Type the section heading (e.g. “Food”) and, optionally, text to show under it — instructions like “Please label anything with nuts!” work great here.
Add slots inside it.
Every section has its own Add a slot card, so new slots land in the right group. You can set up all your sections first and fill them in after, or start flat and organize later.
Give a section a date
Some sheets are organized a day per section: a meal train with “Tuesday the 28th” over a main course, a salad, and a dessert; a work week with a section per day. Give the section its date (in the Add a section card, or by editing the section) and:
- The date shows under the heading on the public page — once, for the whole section, instead of on every slot.
- Every regular slot you add under the section takes that date, and so does a slot you drag in.
- Changing the section's date re-dates every slot in it, so a night that moves is one edit, not four. Clearing the date leaves the slots as they are.
The slots are still dated slots, so everything in One slot per date still applies: each closes by itself once its day is over, reminders and calendar invites follow its day, and the sign-up deadline counts back from it.
Moving slots around
- Drag and drop — drag any slot card into a section (or back out) and drag to reorder within a group.
- The “Move to” menu — each slot card also has a menu for sending it to another section without dragging.
- Reorder sections — drag whole sections by the grip handle on their left to change the order they appear on the form.
- No dragging needed — every grip handle, on slots and on sections alike, also takes the arrow keys: click or tab to it, then press ↑ or ↓ to move that card one place at a time. Handy on a touchscreen, where dragging can be fiddly.
Slots that aren't in any section appear at the top of the public form, above the first section heading.
Sections as text blocks
A section with no slots renders as just its heading and text — a handy way to add a welcome note, directions, or a “What to bring” list anywhere on the form.
Removing a section
Common questions
- What happens to the slots when I change a section's date?
- Every regular slot in that section takes the new date. Clearing the section's date leaves the slots dated as they were. RSVP and carpool questions never carry a date.
- Does a slot I drag into a dated section take its date?
- Yes. A regular slot moved into a dated section takes that section's day. Moving a slot out of a section, or into a section without a date, leaves its date alone.
- Do volunteers get an email when I change a section's date?
- No. Changing dates never emails anyone on its own. The public page shows the new date right away, and on Basic and Pro the reminder email follows each slot's new day. If the change matters sooner, tell people yourself.
- Can I move every date on the sheet at once?
- Yes — Move all dates, next to Edit details under the sheet's title, shifts the event date and every section and slot date by the same number of days. See Create a sign-up form.
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