Feature settings

Where: Setup → Feature Settings

The master switches for every feature on your event, grouped by area. This is where you turn something on that your event mode left off, or off that it turned on.

Most events never need this screen. Read the next section before changing anything on it.

How defaults work

When you chose your event mode, the platform set every feature to a sensible state for that kind of event. A Donation event gets fundraising features on; a Standard event does not.

That means a feature being off is usually a decision, not an oversight.

The screen distinguishes two things:

• Mode Defaults — what your mode chose.
• Overrides — what you have deliberately changed.

A setting you have not touched follows its mode default, and will keep following it. A setting you override is pinned to your choice and stops tracking the default.

Finding a setting

There are well over a hundred flags here. Do not scroll.

• Search by name.
• Filter by state: All, Enabled, Disabled, or Overridden.
• Filter by mode: Standard, Seasonal, Donation, or All.

The Overridden filter is the useful one for auditing. It answers "what have we deliberately changed on this event?" — which is exactly what you want when a feature is behaving unexpectedly, or when you are copying a working configuration onto a new event.

Before you change something

Ask why it is currently set that way. Because the mode chose it deliberately, and because features here interact.

Turning something on may reveal a section of the public site that has no content in it yet. Turning something off may hide a page participants have already been linked to.

Changes are live

There is no draft or preview here. Saving takes effect on the public site immediately. If your event is already running, make the change at a quiet hour and check the public site afterwards.

Undoing an override

Reset the override. The feature goes back to following your mode's default, rather than to whatever it happened to be before you touched it.

That distinction matters if you have overridden several related things — resetting each returns each to its mode default, which is a coherent state, rather than to an arbitrary previous one.

When to use this screen

Legitimately:

• Turning on a feature your mode leaves off, because your event genuinely needs it.
• Turning off a feature you are not using, so it stops appearing on the public site.
• Auditing what has been changed on an event that is behaving oddly.

Less good: switching things on to see what they do, on a live event. Try that on a test event.