Programs

Purpose

The Programs tab manages the sub-programs that live under your container program — the individual workshops, tutorials, or sessions in your category. It reuses the same sub-program manager organizers use, embedded inside the console: sub-program cards with activate, edit, and delete controls, drag-to-reorder, Move to… another container, a card/list view toggle, a Create Program button, and read-only oversight views for each sub-program.

When you use it

• To add a sub-program directly (rather than waiting for a proposal to be accepted).
• To edit a sub-program's settings, or activate/deactivate it to open or close it without deleting anything.
• To reorder how sub-programs are listed, here and in the Submission Portal.
• To move a sub-program to another container you also chair.
• To peek at a sub-program's submissions, committee, or reviews without leaving the console.

Walkthrough

1. 1

   Open the Multi-Program Chair Console, select your container, and open the Programs tab.

2. 2

   The page has two sections: Programs shows the container itself (its submissions are the proposals; it can be edited or activated here, but not moved, cloned or deleted), and a section named for the container's sub-programs (for example Workshops · WS2027) lists them.

3. 3

   Sub-programs open in list view. Switch to card view with the toggle beside the Programs heading (the current view is outlined; the other is a solid button). Cards show a sub-program's name, stats, and actions but not its description — open Edit to read or change the description.

4. 4

   Click Create Program to add a sub-program under this container. (When the container is empty, use the create prompt in the center of the tab.) You're taken to the program creation flow with the container pre-set as the parent.

5. 5

   Reorder sub-programs by dragging a card or list item by its handle, or with the up / down arrows beside the handle. The order is saved automatically, and the Submission Portal lists the sub-programs in the same order. If the save is refused (for example, someone else changed the list), the old order comes back and a message says why.

6. 6

   Move to… (the folder-arrow button) moves a sub-program to another container, for example a workshop accepted under "Workshops" that belongs under "Tutorials". Pick the container and confirm. The button appears only when there is a container you can move it to: you need to chair both containers, or be a conference organizer.

7. 7

   On each sub-program card, use Edit to change its settings and Activate / Deactivate (beside Edit) to open or close it. Clone (right of Edit) copies the sub-program, under the same container, with its settings, tracks, dates and email templates; the copy starts inactive. In card view, Delete is the trash icon at the card's bottom-right corner.

8. 8

   Use a sub-program's Submissions, Committee, and Reviews buttons to open read-only oversight views (counts and lists) without navigating away.

Tips