Import from spreadsheets
Ontime allows importing a rundown from a spreadsheet written elsewhere (eg. Excel or Google-Sheets).
Follow here to see the Google Sheet template in the screenshot.
Importing data
Section titled “Importing data”For a successful import, there are a few conventions to follow.
- Ontime reads a single worksheet
- You can have as many columns as necessary, Ontime only imports the columns you request
- The name of the worksheet and columns are given in the app on import
- Ontime creates an event for every row on the table (see exception in Timer type notes)
- All fields in an event (row) are optional, Ontime will fill in with default data if necessary
- The times can be either an Excel time field or a short text entry as described in the smart entry feature eg:
00:10:15
or10m15s
See below the expected data types of the rundown data
Field names are not case-sensitive: both Title
and title
would be recognised on import.
Event Field | Data Type | Default value |
---|---|---|
Start | Excel time | string | 00:00:00 |
Link start | boolean | false |
End | Excel time | string | 00:00:00 |
Duration | Excel time | string | 00:00:00 |
Cue | string | "" |
Title | string | "" |
Public | boolean | false |
Skip | boolean | false |
Note | string | "" |
Colour | string (# hex colour or named css colour) | "" |
End action | none stop load-next play-next | none |
Timer type* | count-down count-up clock block skip none | count-down |
Count to end* | boolean | false |
Time warning | Excel time | string | 00:02:00 |
Time danger | Excel time | string | 00:01:00 |
Custom Fields
Section titled “Custom Fields”Ontime allows importing any amount of custom fields.
You will need to provide the title of the relevant columns on import.
For each field provided, Ontime will create a custom field and add the data in the excel table row to the event.