Build your Library of reusable pieces

Library → Templates lists Seasonal Suggestions for this time of year, Your Templates, and the Core Templates every neighborhood gets. A template holds an event's capacity, timing, theme, default location, contact fields, tickets, activities, volunteer roles, and survey. It's what the New Event window offers as cards. Create Event on a card makes the event; View Details shows what's inside, and New Template builds one from scratch.

The easiest template is one you already ran. On any event's manage page, Save as Template copies its setup into a new template in your Library and opens it for editing, so you can rename it and drop anything one-off. Next year's version is then one click from the New Event window.

Library → Activities is a shelf of things that happen at events (face painting, a bounce house, a chili tasting), each with an emoji and a description. Platform activities come ready to use; New Activity adds your own. On the event form, the Activities section lets you pick from this list or create a new one, with optional start and end times, so the event page shows a little program.

Library → Locations holds every place you hold events, with its address, an optional Google Maps link, and whether it's private (the address shown only to registered attendees). A location can also have a facility type and a reservation requirement, which is what makes the event form ask for approval before you book the clubhouse. These are the places Select existing location offers on the event form.

Library → Waivers is where you write participation waivers. New waiver takes a Title and the wording, plus two switches: Live (untick it to stop asking for it) and Ask everyone to accept again when I revise this. Each acceptance records who, which version, and when, with a frozen copy of the text. Attach a waiver to an event from its Participation waiver field.

Library → Themes is the Theme Library: ready-made themes plus any custom ones your team makes with Create Custom Theme (colors, a pattern, an emoji, a font style). A theme colors the event page's banner, its social image, and the header of its emails. Pick one in the Event Theme section of the event form, or set one on a template or series so every event built from it matches. An event with no theme of its own wears your neighborhood's theme (Settings → Neighborhood). The ready-made themes are always there; making your own with Create Custom Theme depends on your neighborhood's plan, so if you need it and it isn't available yet, email [email protected].