Checklist Templates

Checklist Templates (/templates) is Coordinator-only. It manages the district-wide templates that every new Area or Division contest starts from — see Creating a Contest, which snapshots whichever template is currently active for the chosen contest type.

Active template

Each contest type (Area, Division) has exactly one active template at a time. Activating a template deactivates whichever one held that spot before. A template with no tasks can't be activated — that would hand every new contest an empty checklist.

Creating a template

New template starts a template from scratch: give it a name, a contest type (Area or Division) and a season. The season is filled in from your newest template; change it if it's wrong. The name and season can't be changed after the template is created.

A new template starts empty and inactive. Open it, add at least one task, then activate it. Until a template for a contest type is active, contests of that type can't be created or rolled out.

Cloning

Rather than editing an active template directly (which wouldn't affect contests already created from it), clone it to start a new version, make your changes, then activate the clone when it's ready.

Editing a template

Open a template to edit its tasks — organized into the same five sections as a contest's checklist (Working a Contest's Checklist). For each task you can set:

• Section and an optional due offset (days before the contest date it's due).
• Details and an action note.
• A linked helper role — ties the task to a specific role (e.g. Chief Judge) for context.
• One level of sub-tasks. A task with sub-tasks can't itself become a sub-task, and sub-tasks can't be nested further.

Reorder tasks within their section using the move up/down controls.

Editing a template only affects contests created from it afterward — contests already running keep their own snapshot and are unaffected.