# Schedule

If you do not see this in your menu, your website does not use it.

Schedule comes with our higher plans. Contact us to upgrade, or visit your
customer portal for a self-service upgrade to a supported plan.

Schedule is a list of dated stops. Where you will be, and when. It is built for
a business that moves: a food truck, a market stall, a mobile groomer.

One stop is one date in one place. Saturday at the farmers market is a stop.
The same market next Saturday is a second stop.

Go to **Plugins**, then **Schedule**.

## Adding a stop

The form for a new stop sits at the top of the screen.

![The top of the Schedule screen. Three boxes count upcoming, past and total stops. Below them a form with four numbered marks: 1 on Date, 2 on Location, 3 on Start time, 4 on the Repeat box.](../../../assets/screenshots/schedule-add.png)

*Fill this in, click Add stop, and the stop drops into the list below.*

**1. Date.** The one box you have to fill in. Click the small calendar to pick
a day.

**2. Location.** Also required. The name people would say out loud, such as
"Hamilton Farmers Market".

**3. Start time.** Type it the way you say it. `11:00 AM`, `11am`, `9 to 2`.
Your website prints it back exactly as you typed it. **End time** works the
same way.

**4. Repeat.** It reads **none** to start with, which means the stop happens
once. There is more on this below.

**Address (optional)** and **Note (optional)** are the last two. The address
shows under the location name. The note is for a line like "Look for the orange
awning".

Click **Add stop**. A message says the stop was added, and it appears in the
list below under **Upcoming**.

## Repeating a stop every week

Say you are at the same market every Saturday until October. You do not have to
add each date by hand.

1. Fill in the date of the first one, and the rest of the form.
2. Open **Repeat** and pick **Weekly**.
3. A **Repeat mode** box appears. Pick **Until a date** or **After a number of
   times**.
4. Fill in the end date, or the number of times.
5. Click **Add stop**.

You get one ordinary stop per week, all in one go. The message tells you how
many were made. Each one says **(series)** in the list.

:::note[Important]
The **Repeat until** box shows even when **Repeat** reads **none**. That is
just the screen being untidy. It is ignored unless you pick **Weekly**.
:::

## Changing or removing a stop

Every stop is a row under **Upcoming** or **Past**. Click a row to open it.

![One stop open, showing its date, location, address, times and note. Three numbered marks: 1 on Save, 2 on the red Delete button, 3 on the red Delete all in series button.](../../../assets/screenshots/schedule-stop.png)

*The same boxes as the new stop form, filled in.*

**1. Save.** Stores your changes. Your website has them right away.

**2. Delete.** Removes this one stop.

**3. Delete all in series.** Only on a stop you made with **Weekly**. It
removes every stop in that run, not just this one.

Change the date on a stop and it simply moves. You do not have to delete it and
start again.

:::caution[Warning]
Both delete buttons take the stop off your website the moment you confirm.
Nothing can bring it back, and neither can we.

**Delete all in series** is the one to watch. It clears every date in that
weekly run, including dates months away. If you only meant to cancel one week,
use **Delete**.

Your browser asks you to confirm either way, and the message tells you which
one you picked.
:::

## What happens to a date once it has passed

Nothing you have to do.

The moment a date is behind you, that stop drops off your website on its own.
Visitors only ever see what is still to come.

The stop is not gone. It moves to the **Past** list at the bottom of this
screen, newest first, and waits there. Open it and use it again next year by
changing its date.

## How the schedule reaches your website

Through a block on a page. Most sites put it on the home page.

![The live schedule on a website. Four cards in a row, each with a date, a place, an address, opening times and a note. The first card is outlined and marked Next up. A line under the row reads All times in MDT.](../../../assets/screenshots/schedule-live.png)

*Four stops. The soonest one gets the Next up badge on its own.*

The block prints the date, the place, the address, the times and the note, in
date order. Past dates are not there.

To put it on a page, edit the page and add a **Schedule** block, then publish
the page. [Pages](/content/pages/) shows how a block is added, and [saving and
publishing](/start-here/saving-and-publishing/) covers the last step.

After that, the block looks after itself. Adding a stop on this screen does not
mean going back and publishing the page again.

:::note[Important]
Two blocks in that list are called **Schedule**. Read the line under each name.

The one you want says it shows **upcoming dated stops**. That is this plugin.

The other one is a fixed week, Sunday to Saturday, with up to seven rows typed
straight into the page. It has no dates and it never changes on its own. Use it
only if your week is always the same.
:::

## The block's own settings

Click the block, then click the pencil. Four boxes, and all of them can be left
empty.

**Headline** and **Subheadline** put a heading above the list.

**Maximum stops to show** is a number. The rest hide behind a button that
counts them, such as **Show 2 more**, and a visitor can click it. Leave the box
empty and your website uses the number we set up for you, normally five.

**Show past stops** is a switch. Turn it on and old dates stay on the page,
ahead of the ones still to come. Most businesses leave it off.

**Message when there are no stops** is what visitors read when your list is
empty. Leave it empty and the whole section disappears instead.

:::caution[Warning]
An empty schedule with no message is a section that vanishes off your page.
Nothing is broken, but the page changes shape.

Add your next stop before your last one goes past, and this never comes up.
:::

## The line under the list

Your website prints **All times in ...** under the stops, with your time zone
in it.

Times are never changed. What you type is what a visitor reads. That line is
there so a visitor from out of town knows which clock you mean.

:::danger[Contact support]
Contact us if that line names the wrong time zone, or if stops fall off a day
early or hang around a day late. Both come from one setting, and it is ours to
fix. Tell us which town you work in.

Email [support@lookoutridgeit.com](mailto:support@lookoutridgeit.com).
[Getting support](/help/getting-support/) says what to put in the message.
:::