Import & Export
Bring your show in from a spreadsheet, and download timers, messages, questions or a whole room. Import and export need a Pro or Premium plan.
Find both in the Controller under Settings ▸ Import / Export. To create a new room from a file, click Import on the dashboard.
Export
| File | Holds |
|---|---|
| Stage timers (CSV) | One stage's timers |
| Messages (CSV) | Operator messages |
| Questions (CSV) | Audience questions |
| Room (JSON) | The room's name, settings, labels, timers and operator messages |
Use Room (JSON) to reuse a room's setup. It leaves out questions, the event date, the end of show, passwords and managers.
Import a CSV
A CSV needs Duration and Title columns. Speaker, Notes and Labels are optional. A Start column is accepted, but its times aren't imported. Kloksi is forgiving about column names and duration formats, and also reads files that Excel saves with semicolons.
When you create a room from a file on the dashboard, rows above the header can set its details: Event: for the name and Time zone: for the timezone.
The first timer comes in as Manual, and the rest are linked to the one before. A row such as Day 2 starts a new day, and the timer after it comes in as Manual.
Files can be up to 1 MB. Settings has example files to start from.
Import a room JSON
A room export brings in labels and one stage's timers at a time, plus the room's operator messages when you replace. If the file has both stages, choose which one to take the timers from.
Importing into an existing room keeps that room's settings. To apply the file's settings as well, import it from the dashboard, which creates a new room.
Choose what to import
Kloksi shows a preview before anything changes:
- Tick the rows you want. Warnings point out anything shortened or left out.
- Choose a stage in Import into.
- Choose a mode:
- Append adds the timers after the stage's current ones, and nothing else.
- Replace this stage's timers stops the stage and removes its timers. A JSON import replaces every message too. The other stage, room settings and questions stay.
- Confirm. If the room changed since the preview, Kloksi asks you to review it again.
A stage holds a limited number of timers. If your file has too many, the preview tells you how many rows to untick.
When a file is refused
You'll see an error if a file is over 1 MB, has no header row, isn't valid JSON, isn't a Kloksi export, or has no timers.