Library

The library is home for your folders and sketches. This is where you manage competition links, share links, and sync status.

Competition folders

Every sketch except templates lives in a competition. A competition is a folder marked as such. It can sit at the library root or under an organisation folder. Competitions cannot be nested inside each other.

• New competition in the sidebar creates the competition folder (optional parent folder, optional Equipe show).
• New sketch must pick an existing competition, create a new one, or be created as a template.
• Templates have no competition and no date. They cannot be exported to PDF/PNG, printed, or published to Equipe.

The licence meters competition days (unique dates per competition and calendar year), not the number of competitions. Several sketches on the same day in the same competition count as one day. Two competitions on the same Saturday count as two days.

Mark a folder as a competition

1. Open a folder.
2. Choose Competition / Equipe (folder toolbar or folder menu).
3. Check Mark as competition and save.

The folder gets a competition badge. Metadata syncs with the folder when you are online. Subfolders and sketches can inherit the link from a parent competition folder. After any sketch in the competition is published to Equipe, the show link is locked.

Equipe connection

In the same dialog you can search and link a show from Equipe Online (requires network). A linked meeting appears in the folder header as Equipe: ….

When the folder is linked, publish individual sketches from the editor under Properties → Publishing. The class list is filtered to the sketch date. Step by step: Publish to Equipe Online.

Build sketches

For a competition folder that is synced to the cloud you can enable a public build-sketches page:

1. Open Competition / Equipe.
2. Enable the public build page (requires online + a synced folder).
3. Copy the ?build= link for course builders.

In the editor you can publish or unpublish individual sketches so they appear on (or are hidden from) that public page.

Time-allowed input

From a folder (online) you can open Time-allowed mode and create a no-login link:

1. Create or renew the link (valid for 7 days).
2. Copy the ?timing= link to the person entering measurements.
3. The recipient enters measured length (and tempo); time allowed is calculated.
4. The result can be saved to the cloud and downloaded as PDF.

You can renew or revoke the link from the same dialog. Entry happens on the timing page — the library manages the link.

Cloud sync vs offline

The header shows whether you are Online or Offline.

• Online: sketches and folders sync to the CourseDraw cloud. Changes push and pull in the background.
• Offline: you can keep working in the local library. Changes are marked Pending sync (or Sync conflict if something clashes). Sync runs again when you are online.

Features that require network and a synced folder:

• searching Equipe shows and uploading to Equipe
• enabling the build-sketches page
• creating time-allowed links

On desktop the library may in some cases be mirrored locally under Documents when the cloud is unreachable — a banner can show that the source is local files or cache.