How to mark a row complete

Rows themselves aren't marked complete — Showtime handles live progress. What you mark complete are the follow-ups attached to rows.

2 min read Producers and editors

In Overture, individual rows aren't marked "complete" — they just play through in sequence during Showtime. What does get marked complete is each follow-up attached to a row: the to-do items you and your team add ("confirm walk-on music," "double-check lower-thirds," "send thank-you note to sponsor"). Marking a follow-up complete keeps your follow-up counts honest and clears it from the global Follow-Ups page.

To mark a follow-up complete

Find the row that owns the follow-up. Open follow-ups appear as small pills under the row, color-coded by priority.
Click the empty circle on the left side of the pill. It fills with a green checkmark and the pill text gets a strikethrough.
Completed follow-ups hide themselves from the row by default. To see them again, look for the small "Show N completed" toggle next to the row's follow-up pills.

To reopen a follow-up

Click the green checkmark circle again. The pill un-fills, the strikethrough disappears, and the follow-up is back on the open list and counted again in the amber flag pill in the session toolbar.

What "complete" actually changes

When you mark a follow-up complete, Overture:

Records the exact timestamp (visible on hover — "Completed Jun 11, 2026, 1:32 PM").
Subtracts the follow-up from the row's open count, the session's open count (the amber pill in the toolbar), the event dashboard's "Open Follow-Ups" tile, and the global /follow-ups page.
Keeps the follow-up in the system — it's not deleted, just hidden. You can see all completed follow-ups in the PDF export by enabling the Follow-Ups appendix.

What about marking a whole row "done" in Showtime?

Rows aren't marked complete in the editor — they're marked done live, in Showtime mode. When a session is running, the producer clicks the row that's currently on stage to start its clock, then clicks Stop when that segment ends. Overture marks that row done, dims it, and arms the next row automatically. You can also back up: click any earlier row, hit Restart, and the show resumes from there.

Clicking through a session in Showtime: each row goes done when you Stop it, the next row arms automatically, and you can jump back to restart any earlier row.

Showtime lives behind the gold star button at the top-right of the event dashboard when a session tab is selected. For the full live-run workflow, see Restart vs Stop a row and Start a session in Showtime.