How to set row duration

DURATION is the cell that drives every other time in your run of show. Click it, type a number, hit Tab, and watch TIME OFF on that row plus every row below it cascade in real time. No modal, no separate edit screen — it all happens right in the table.

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Click the DURATION cell

On any session tab, find the row you want to change and click directly on its DURATION cell. The cell goes into edit mode in place — a thin border appears and your cursor lands inside. No dialog, no separate panel.

The DURATION cell for the 8:48 AM row selected and ready for input, with the cursor positioned inside. — Click any DURATION cell to edit in place. The cell highlights and a text caret appears.

Type a number — the smart parser does the rest

Overture's DURATION field is forgiving. All of these work:

Bare number — type 8 and you get 0:08 (8 minutes). Type 30 and you get 0:30.
H:MM — type 1:30 for 1 hour 30 minutes.
H:MM:SS — type 1:00:00 for one hour exactly.
With unit — type 5m, 90s, 2h and Overture parses it.

Press Tab or Enter to commit. Click anywhere outside the cell and it also commits. Escape cancels and restores the previous value.

The DURATION cell now reads 0:08 after typing 8. The row's TIME OFF column has updated from 8:57 AM to 8:56 AM. — Typed `8` → parsed to `0:08`. TIME OFF on the same row recalculates immediately.

Watch the cascade

The moment you commit, two things happen:

TIME OFF for this row recalculates to TIME ON + DURATION.
Every row below this one shifts forward or backward by the delta — TIME ON, TIME OFF, all of it. The session header's total time at the top right (the green pill) recalculates too.

If you change a row from 0:12 to 1:30, every row after it slides forward by 1 hour 18 minutes. No manual fix-up required.

The Condoleezza Rice row's DURATION changed from 0:12 to 1:30. Every row below shifted forward — the keynote address starts at 10:26 AM instead of 9:09 AM. — Edited `0:12` → `1:30`. Every downstream row rolled forward by 1:18. No row was edited individually — the cascade did it.

Confirm the save

Watch the toolbar's save pill flip from amber Saving 1… to green All saved. That's your signal that the change is committed to the server. The session's total time on the session header reflects every cascaded change.

The full Opening Session tab zoomed out, total time now 3:19 in the green pill at the session header, All saved pill green in the top toolbar. — Zoomed out: session total updated to `3:19`. All saved is green in the toolbar — every edit committed.

Negative durations are blocked

You can't type a negative number. The parser rejects anything that would make TIME OFF land before TIME ON. If you need to back-time a row, edit the TIME ON cell instead — TIME OFF derives from TIME ON + DURATION.

DOORS OPEN and ROS HUDDLE rows are special

A DOORS OPEN row's duration is the lead-in countdown before its TIME OFF — the moment doors actually open. A ROS HUDDLE row's duration is the huddle length before TIME OFF kicks the next row. Both behave the same way from your end — type a number, hit Tab — but their semantics differ. See DOORS OPEN rows and ROS HUDDLE rows.

Common patterns

Shrink a buffer — change the buffer row's duration from 0:15 to 0:05. Everything after slides up 10 minutes.
Pad a keynote — change the keynote duration from 0:30 to 0:45. Everything after slides down 15 minutes.
Reset to default — there's no "reset" button; just retype the original duration.
Bulk edits — Overture doesn't support bulk-edit across rows yet. Edit each row individually.

Keyboard shortcuts

Tab — commit and move to the next cell (STAGE LEADER).
Enter — commit and stay in the cell.
Shift+Tab — commit and move to the previous cell (TIME ON).
Escape — cancel changes and restore the previous value.