How to jump to a row mid-session

Skip ahead to any future cue in Showtime. Click the row title, confirm the jump, and Overture marks the rows between as done.

~4 min read Producer / Show caller

When a session is running and you need to skip ahead — a speaker dropped out, a keynote ran short, the schedule collapsed — you can jump directly to a later row. Overture marks every row between the current cue and the target as done, then starts the timer on the cue you chose. A confirmation modal makes sure you don't jump by accident, and every skipped row can be undone one at a time afterward.

Clicking through Showtime: tap a row's checkbox to mark it done and advance the live cue forward, or click an already-checked earlier row to back up. The same mechanic powers jumping — click a row title further down the list to skip ahead, and Overture marks every row in between as done in a single confirmed step.

Who can jump rows

Jumping is a producer-level action. You must be running the show — that is, either the Owner, an Administrator or Producer on this event, or a Crew member with the Call show toggle enabled. Viewers and Crew without the call-show toggle see the cue list as static text and won't get the jump affordance.

How to jump to a later row

Start the session in Showtime — the timer needs to be running for jumping to be available. If the session is still in the "armed / Ready to start" state, hit Start first.
Scroll down the cue list to a future row (any row after the one currently running).
Hover the row title — the title will turn gold, and the cursor becomes a pointer.
Click the row title. A confirmation modal opens.

The modal will say something like "Jump to 'Closing Keynote'? This will mark row 5 as done and start the timer for 'Closing Keynote'." When you skip more than one row, the wording switches to a range ("This will mark rows 5–7 as done…") so it's always clear how many cues get marked complete.

Confirming or cancelling

Click Confirm (or press Enter — the Confirm button is auto-focused) to execute the jump.
Click Cancel, press Esc, or click the dim backdrop outside the modal card to back out without changing anything.

What "jump" does under the hood

A jump is the same as if you had pressed Stop on each row in turn until you reached the target — only it all happens in one click, and the modal makes it intentional. Specifically:

The currently-running row, plus every row between it and your target, gets marked done with the actual clock time of the jump as their finish time.
The target row starts immediately — its timer begins at 0:00 and counts up toward its planned duration.
The jump is broadcast in real time to everyone else watching this Showtime (viewers on the video wall, BigClock on a stage monitor, etc.). They see the cue list jump to the new row.
The video-wall column (if your event has one) updates immediately to reflect the new current cue.

Why future rows only

Jumping is forward-only by design. To re-run an earlier cue you've already finished, use Restart on that row instead — it's the right tool for "the speaker wants to do that slide again." Jump is for "we are abandoning the rest of this block and moving on."

The row that's currently running is also not jumpable (clicking it would be a no-op — you can't "jump" to where you already are). Tap Stop or Advance for the running row, then jump from there if needed.

Undoing a jump

If you jumped past a row by mistake, the rows you skipped are still in the cue list — they're just marked done. Every completed row has an undo control that flips it back to incomplete. Use undo to restore the rows you didn't mean to skip, one at a time, in any order. The target row keeps running while you tidy up the history.

Tips from real shows

Talk first, click second. Tell your stage caller you're jumping before you confirm — the cue list updates instantly on every screen, and a sudden jump on the video wall is jarring if nobody warned the room.
Watch the range label. When the modal says "rows 5–7" instead of "row 5", three cues are about to be marked complete. Make sure that's what you intended.
Use jumps to recover from late starts. When the open ran 8 minutes long and there's no time for the icebreaker, jumping straight to the first speaker keeps the schedule honest instead of trying to compress the next three cues by eyeballing them.
Jumps are in the audit log. Skipped rows record their actual finish time, so post-show reporting still shows what really happened.