Floating a row keeps it in your rundown but takes it out of the running show. A floated row doesn't count toward your show's timing, it's skipped during tracking, and its script is left out of prompter view. Use it for backup rows, holds, or optional content you want ready to run without it affecting timing or being read on the prompter. The row stays visible in the grid, dimmed with a striped overlay, so your team can still see it until you unfloat it.
Who can float rows?
Only users with Admin or Show Caller permissions can float or unfloat rows. Contributors and Read Only crew see floated rows but can't change them.
How to float a row
Right-click the row number of the row you want to float.
Select Float Row from the menu.
To float several rows at once, select them first, then right-click one of their row numbers and choose Float Row. Every selected row is floated.
How to unfloat a row
Right-click the row number of a floated row.
Select Unfloat Row from the menu.
With several rows selected, Unfloat Row only appears when every selected row is floated. If any of them isn't, the menu shows Float Row instead.
Floating a group
If your rundown uses row groups, you can float a whole group at once.
Right-click the group header.
Select Float Group.
The header and every sub cue in the group are floated. To bring them back, right-click the header and select Unfloat Group.
Float Group is disabled while the group header or any of its sub cues is being tracked.
[SCREENSHOT: group header right-click menu with Float Group highlighted]
What a floated row looks like
In the grid, the row is dimmed and covered with diagonal stripes, including its row number, so it's easy to spot at a glance. Floated rows next to each other share one continuous set of stripes.
A floated group header gets the same look.
The row keeps all of its content and stays in place in the rundown. Floating doesn't delete or move it.
The row's Start Time cell is blank and can't be edited while the row is floated. Unfloat the row to bring its start time back.
[SCREENSHOT: two neighboring floated rows showing the continuous stripes and a blank Start Time cell]
Floated rows are hidden from the prompter
A floated row doesn't appear in prompter view at all, so presenters won't read it. This makes floating a quick way to pull a backup or optional row out of the read without deleting it. Unfloat the row to bring its script back into the prompter in real time.
Floated rows are left out of timing
A floated row adds no time to your show. While a row is floated:
Start times: the rows around it are timed as if it weren't there.
Planned clock: Start, Dur, and End in the header leave it out.
Over / Under clock: its actual run time doesn't count toward Show, and End skips it, so floating a row that's still to come pulls End earlier. See Header Clocks.
Row groups: a group's rolled-up run time leaves out floated sub cues.
Floated rows are skipped during tracking
Start Tracking begins on the first row that isn't floated.
Next and Previous in the footer, Space and Shift + Space, and Next Row and Previous Row in the command palette all skip floated rows.
If you track a floated row directly, by double-clicking its row number or choosing Track Row, tracking moves to the next row that isn't floated. If there isn't one, tracking stays where it is.
The Up Next card in Speaker Timer view names the next row that isn't floated.
Unfloating a row brings it back into the prompter, timing, and tracking immediately.
Notes
You can't float the row that's currently being tracked, or a group that contains it. Move tracking to another row (or stop tracking) first, then float it.
Floating works on a single row or several selected rows at once.
Floated rows keep their dimmed, striped look in PDF exports and on guest passes.
Floated rows sync in real time, so everyone viewing the show sees the same floated rows.