Stage patch and lineup
The grid holds the master patch; two dialogs turn it into the other paperwork a stage runs on. The stage patch — what's plugged into which box on stage — is derived from the grid, never typed twice. The lineup holds the acts, their times, and the changeovers between them.
Sub-boxes
Boxes declares the stage's sub-boxes (sub-snakes): a name, how many inputs it has, a colour, and where it sits on stage (USC, DSR…). Colours show up as stripes in the grid's Sub-box column, so a glance tells you which box a channel lands on.
The "PINK 3" syntax
Here's the trick that makes the stage patch free: in an act's Sub-box cell, type the box name and a tail number — PINK 3. That one cell says "this channel arrives on tail 3 of the PINK box". Do that as you patch, and the stage patch writes itself.
The stage patch
Stage Patch shows, per act, each sub-box as its own table: tail number, channel, input, mic/DI — including empty tails, because "tail 4 is free" is information. It warns loudly when two channels claim one tail ("⚠ Two channels on one tail: BSNAKE 4"), and unused boxes collapse out of the way.
It's read-only on purpose. Fix anything by fixing the grid cell it came from — there is exactly one source of truth.
The lineup
Lineup manages the acts:
- + Add Act, then name, start and end times, a Spec field (backline, band size, what they bring) and an Additional info field for what came up on the day.
- Files — drop an act's rider or stage plot straight onto their row. Attachments live on the box, so they need a connection to add or open.
- Acts appear as the column groups of the grid, in running order.
Where the acts come from
The names and times aren't the sheet's — they're the event's running order, and this is one of its editors. Move a set time here and it has moved on every phone, every countdown and every other department's screen before you look up. The Spec, Additional info and Files belong to this sheet alone, so an audio sheet and a lighting sheet can say different things about the same band.
That means two things worth knowing:
- The Stage field in the toolbar decides the columns. A sheet shows its own stage's acts on its own date. Type a stage the running order doesn't use and the grid is empty — the field offers back the stages already in use for exactly that reason. A sheet with no stage named yet shows everything on its date.
- Removing an act removes it from the event, not just from this sheet, along with this sheet's patch for it. Crewbox asks first and says so.
A sheet with no acts says so and offers the way out, rather than showing a grid with no columns and no explanation.
Changeovers
Between each pair of acts the lineup shows a changeover:
- The greyed-in number is the gap the set times imply.
- Type the agreed changeover over it if it's different ("45", "1hr30", "HR" all parse).
- If the two disagree, you get a warning — "⚠ the set times leave 1 hr" — and crewbox deliberately doesn't pick a side. The sheet doesn't know whether the running order moved or the changeover did; only the person holding the running order does. Fix whichever is wrong and the warning goes.
Day sheets
Nothing special to learn: a second-stage day sheet is just another sheet. Import it like any CSV — changeovers and per-act info boxes come through — and share it to that stage's channel.