Custom Event Types
Shape a Channel's Calendar Event Types — rename them, recolor them, reorder them, delete the ones you don't use, and add your own.
Event types make calendars scannable. Bluprint ships with Filming, Release, Editing, Planning, Deadline, Review, and Reminder, and each Channel shapes that list into its own — renaming, recoloring, reordering, removing, and adding types freely.
They classify projected dates as well as Calendar Events: a date field's Event type setting decides the colour and icon its blocks get, and calendar filters treat the two alike. Giving a field its own custom type is the cleanest way to make one kind of date stand out — a Sponsor Deadline field in its own colour, say.
Custom event types are useful for work your team repeats often:
- Sponsor Review
- Thumbnail Review
- Guest Recording
- Livestream
- Voiceover
- Brand Approval
Manage Event Types
Open Manage Fields in this Channel, pick Calendar Events in the left rail, and click the icon beside the Event Type field to expand it. Its types are edited right there.
Every type sits in one list, whether Bluprint provided it or you did, and every one can be:
- Renamed by clicking its name.
- Recolored with its swatch.
- Reordered by dragging — the order here is the order every event-type picker uses.
- Deleted, which asks where the events using it should go first. Deleted a type Bluprint provided? Restore offers it back.
The default type
One job is done by a type rather than a particular one. Assign it from a type's ⋯ menu, under Use as:
Leave it unassigned and the first type in the list takes the job, which is why reordering the list is usually all you need.
Everything else that creates an event with a type of its own — the YouTube sync, a date field drawn on a calendar, a Google or Outlook import — starts from that default and is configured where it lives, not here. A date field, for instance, carries its own Event type setting.
Create an Event Type
Select Add event type, then type a name. Click its swatch to pick a color and its ⋯ menu to set an icon.
Create One From the Event Window
You can also create a custom event type while scheduling an event. Open the Event Type dropdown and choose New Event Type.
Common Mistakes
Creating types for one-off events
Use types for repeated categories. A one-off event can usually use an existing type plus a clear title.
Deleting the type new events default to
Deleting the type that holds the default role hands the role to another type before it goes. The dialog says so before you confirm, and asks where the events using it should move.
Using colors that look too similar
Event colors are scanning tools. Pick colors that are easy to distinguish in Month and Week layouts.