fix(automation): stop the list claiming an automation never runs

An automation can be triggered two ways, and they are stored in different places: global triggers live in the automation settings, event triggers live on the event itself, inside the rundown. The panel only ever receives the first list. So the Runs on column was reading an automation attached to ten events as having no triggers at all, and saying "Never runs" about something that runs perfectly well. Worse than a missing hint: it taught that event triggers do not count. The client cannot honestly answer the question either, since it holds only the rundown that is currently loaded and a project can have several. So the column no longer answers it. An empty cell now reads as an em dash, the same as the filter rule column beside it, and claims nothing. The "No outputs" tag stays. An automation with nothing to send does nothing whatever triggers it, and that the panel can see for itself. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfDKsy6PE3Rbyt32Fg4YKf
fix(automation): let the automation form scroll, and grow the Ontime recipes
2026-09-07 07:19:16 +00:00 · 2026-09-06 19:58:39 +00:00 · 2026-09-06 19:12:32 +00:00 · 2026-09-06 19:04:57 +00:00 · 2026-09-06 15:28:25 +00:00 · 2026-09-06 15:28:10 +00:00
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@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+---
+name: code-review
+description: Review Ontime changes for concrete correctness, architecture, testing, routing, security, and maintenance issues. For GitHub Copilot review.
+---
+
+# Review Ontime changes
+
+Review as a maintainer. Find material defects, not speculative advice, style preferences, or generic checklists. Approve when no material issue remains.
+
+## Load relevant context
+
+Read the full diff, PR description, linked issue, tests, and nearby owning code. Then load only applicable guides:
+
+- Every non-trivial review: [change assessment](../../../docs/agent-guides/change-assessment.md)
+- Module placement, server layers, client state, shared packages: [architecture](../../../docs/agent-guides/architecture.md)
+- Tests or changed behaviour: [testing](../../../docs/agent-guides/testing.md)
+- Comments, abstractions, naming, complexity: [code quality](../../../docs/agent-guides/code-quality.md)
+- Authentication, external input, files, integrations, assets, secrets: [security](../../../docs/agent-guides/security.md)
+- Routes, URLs, websockets, authentication, cookies, presets, assets: [routing and cloud](../../../docs/agent-guides/routing-and-cloud.md)
+- Rundowns, timers, persistence, imports, cache, realtime: [domain invariants](../../../docs/agent-guides/domain-invariants.md)
+- Commands, imports, dependencies, formatting, CI claims: [workflow](../../../docs/agent-guides/workflow.md)
+
+Check a guide and nearby canonical code before citing an Ontime convention. Skip unrelated guides.
+
+## Review order
+
+1. Establish intent and affected runtime surfaces.
+2. Read tests first. Identify claimed behaviour and coverage.
+3. Trace implementation, errors, and state transitions.
+4. Check correctness/data integrity, security, architecture/testability, cloud routing, lifecycle/performance, maintainability.
+5. Verify claimed checks. Never claim unobserved results.
+
+Passing tests do not prove architecture, routing, comments, or error paths. Review changed behaviour only; include existing problems only when the diff worsens or relies on them.
+
+## Findings
+
+Report only concrete, actionable issues. Each finding: tight line range, direct defect, impact and trigger, smallest viable remedy when unclear.
+
+- **P0 — Critical:** data loss, exploitable vulnerability, broadly broken production. Blocks merge.
+- **P1 — High:** likely correctness failure or major supported-deployment regression. Blocks merge.
+- **P2 — Medium:** real edge-case defect, architecture regression, missing business-rule test, stale comment, meaningful maintenance risk. Normally blocks merge.
+- **P3 — Low:** local improvement with limited impact. No subjective style or tool-managed formatting.
+
+Order by priority. Prefer few high-confidence findings. No praise or checklist before findings. If none, say so and note verification gaps or residual risk.
+
+Then give one concise PR-level value/risk/complexity assessment. Never repeat it per finding.
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Ontime agent guide
+
+Make the smallest maintainable change. Keep scope narrow. Inspect nearby code first. Reuse helpers and boundaries when semantics match.
+
+## Load only relevant guides
+
+- Commands, validation, formatting, imports, PRs: [workflow](docs/agent-guides/workflow.md).
+- Non-trivial planning, implementation, review: [change assessment](docs/agent-guides/change-assessment.md).
+- Module placement, server layers, client state, shared packages: [architecture](docs/agent-guides/architecture.md).
+- Tests or changed behaviour: [testing](docs/agent-guides/testing.md).
+- Comments, naming, abstractions, maintainability: [code quality](docs/agent-guides/code-quality.md).
+- Authentication, external input, files, integrations, assets, secrets: [security](docs/agent-guides/security.md).
+- Navigation, URLs, API paths, websockets, redirects, cookies, static assets: [routing and cloud](docs/agent-guides/routing-and-cloud.md).
+- Rundowns, timers, imports, persistence, cache, websockets: [domain invariants](docs/agent-guides/domain-invariants.md).
+
+Load multiple guides when needed. Skip unrelated guides for mechanical work.
+
+## Before handoff
+
+- Check the final diff for scope, stale comments, temporary code, redundant tests, generated files.
+- If work reveals a missing, stable, reusable system, domain, or product invariant, update its owning guide. Exclude guesses, one-off bugs, and implementation details.
+- Follow [workflow verification](docs/agent-guides/workflow.md). Report only observed results.
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
  "name": "@getontime/cli",
-  "version": "4.11.0",
+  "version": "4.13.0",
  "author": "Carlos Valente",
  "description": "Time keeping for live events",
  "repository": "https://github.com/cpvalente/ontime",
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover" />
    <meta name="theme-color" content="#101010" />
    <meta name="ontime" content="ontime - time keeping for live events" />
+    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
+    <meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black-translucent" />
+    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Ontime" />
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="ontime-logo.png" />
    <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="ontime-logo.png" />
-    <link rel="manifest" href="site.webmanifest" />
    <link rel="manifest" href="manifest.json" />
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
-    <title>ontime</title>
+    <title>Ontime</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript>
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
  "name": "ontime-ui",
-  "version": "4.11.0",
+  "version": "4.13.0",
  "private": true,
  "type": "module",
  "dependencies": {
-    "@base-ui/react": "1.6.0",
+    "@base-ui/react": "1.7.0",
    "@codemirror/commands": "^6.0.0",
    "@codemirror/lang-css": "^6.0.0",
    "@codemirror/state": "^6.0.0",
@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@
    "@dnd-kit/sortable": "^10.0.0",
    "@dnd-kit/utilities": "^3.2.2",
    "@fontsource/open-sans": "^5.2.7",
-    "@mantine/hooks": "^8.3.7",
+    "@mantine/hooks": "^9.5.1",
    "@sentry/react": "^10.59.0",
    "@table-nav/react": "^0.0.7",
    "@tanstack/react-query": "^5.101.0",
    "@tanstack/react-query-devtools": "^5.101.0",
-    "@tanstack/react-table": "^8.21.3",
+    "@tanstack/react-table": "^9.1.2",
    "@uiw/codemirror-theme-vscode": "^4.25.10",
    "autosize": "^6.0.1",
    "axios": "^1.18.0",
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@
    "react-dom": "^19.2.7",
    "react-fast-compare": "^3.2.2",
    "react-hook-form": "^7.80.0",
-    "react-icons": "5.6.0",
-    "react-router": "^8.3.0",
+    "react-icons": "5.7.0",
+    "react-router": "^8.0.1",
    "react-virtuoso": "^4.18.7",
    "zustand": "^5.0.14"
  },
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@
    ]
  },
  "devDependencies": {
-    "@sentry/vite-plugin": "5.1.1",
+    "@sentry/vite-plugin": "5.4.0",
+    "@types/node": "catalog:",
    "@types/qrcode": "^1.5.6",
    "@types/react": "^19.1.12",
    "@types/react-dom": "^19.1.9",
@@ -72,8 +73,8 @@
    "ontime-utils": "workspace:*",
    "sass": "^1.57.1",
    "typescript": "catalog:",
-    "vite": "8.0.1",
-    "vite-plugin-compression2": "2.5.1",
+    "vite": "8.2.1",
+    "vite-plugin-compression2": "2.5.3",
    "vite-plugin-svgr": "4.5.0",
    "vitest": "catalog:"
  }
@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@
 {
-  "name": "ontime",
-  "short_name": "ontime",
+  "name": "Ontime",
+  "short_name": "Ontime",
  "icons": [
    {
-      "src": "favicon.ico",
-      "type": "image/x-icon"
+      "src": "ontime-logo-192.png",
+      "sizes": "192x192",
+      "type": "image/png"
    },
    {
-      "src": "ontime-logo.png",
+      "src": "ontime-logo-512.png",
+      "sizes": "512x512",
      "type": "image/png"
    }
  ],
  "scope": "./",
  "start_url": "./",
-  "display": "",
-  "theme_color": "#121212",
+  "display": "standalone",
+  "theme_color": "#101010",
  "background_color": "#101010"
 }
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "",
-  "short_name": "",
-  "icons": [{ "src": "ontime-logo.png", "sizes": "295x295", "type": "image/png" }],
-  "theme_color": "#121212",
-  "background_color": "#101010",
-  "display": "standalone"
-}
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import axios from 'axios';
-import { OntimeReport } from 'ontime-types';
+import type { ReportData } from 'ontime-types';

 import { ontimeQueryClient } from '../../common/queryClient';
 import { REPORT, apiEntryUrl } from './constants';
@@ -8,18 +8,13 @@ import type { RequestOptions } from './requestOptions';
 export const reportUrl = `${apiEntryUrl}/report`;

 /**
- * HTTP request to fetch all reports
+ * HTTP request to fetch the report
 */
-export async function fetchReport(options?: RequestOptions): Promise<OntimeReport> {
+export async function fetchReport(options?: RequestOptions): Promise<ReportData> {
  const res = await axios.get(reportUrl, { signal: options?.signal });
  return res.data;
 }

-export async function deleteReport(id: string) {
-  await axios.delete(`${reportUrl}/${id}`);
-  await ontimeQueryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: REPORT });
-}
-
 export async function deleteAllReport() {
  await axios.delete(`${reportUrl}/all`);
  await ontimeQueryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: REPORT });
@@ -176,6 +176,13 @@ export async function postCloneEntry(
  return axios.post(`${rundownPath}/${rundownId}/clone/${entryId}`, options);
 }

+/**
+ * HTTP request events duration to fit inside the group target
+ */
+export async function requestFitGroupTarget(rundownId: RundownId, eventId: EntryId): Promise<AxiosResponse<Rundown>> {
+  return axios.post(`${rundownPath}/${rundownId}/${eventId}/fit-group-duration`);
+}
+
 /**
 * HTTP request for grouping a list of entries into a group
 */
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import { ComponentProps } from 'react';
+
+import Button from './Button';
+
+type ToggleButtonProps = Omit<ComponentProps<typeof Button>, 'variant'> & {
+  /** whether the option this button controls is currently on */
+  pressed: boolean;
+};
+
+/**
+ * A button which carries an on / off state.
+ *
+ * Keeps the pressed styling and the accessible state together, so that a toggle
+ * cannot end up looking active without also announcing that it is.
+ */
+export default function ToggleButton({ pressed, ...buttonProps }: ToggleButtonProps) {
+  return <Button variant={pressed ? 'primary' : 'subtle'} aria-pressed={pressed} {...buttonProps} />;
+}
@@ -1,24 +1,82 @@
+.section {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 0.75rem;
+  padding: 0.75rem;
+  background-color: $gray-1300;
+  border: 1px solid $gray-1100;
+  border-radius: $component-border-radius-md;
+}
+
+.sectionHeader {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 0.25rem;
+}
+
+.separator {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.75rem;
+  color: $gray-500;
+  font-size: $inner-section-text-size;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  letter-spacing: 0.08em;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+
+  &::before,
+  &::after {
+    content: '';
+    flex: 1;
+    border-top: 1px solid $gray-1100;
+  }
+}
+
 .textEntry {
-  grid-area: input;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 0.5rem;
+  flex: 1;
+  min-width: 0;
  color: $label-gray;
 }

 .inlineEntry {
  display: grid;
-  grid-template-areas:
-    'label label'
-    'input btn';
-  grid-template-columns: 1fr auto;
-  column-gap: 0.5rem;
+  grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr) auto;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.75rem;
 }

 .redirect {
-  grid-area: btn;
+  margin-left: auto;
 }

 .label {
-  color: $label-gray;
+  color: $gray-200;
+  font-size: $text-body-size;
+  font-weight: 600;
+}
+
+.description {
+  color: $gray-500;
+  font-size: $inner-section-text-size;
+}
+
+.origin {
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+  color: $gray-500;
+  font-size: $inner-section-text-size;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+
+@media (max-width: $min-tablet) {
+  .inlineEntry {
+    grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+    align-items: stretch;
+  }
+
+  .redirect {
+    align-self: flex-end;
+  }
 }
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { useState } from 'react';
 import { IoArrowForward } from 'react-icons/io5';

+import { baseURI } from '../../../externals';
 import { navigatorConstants } from '../../../viewerConfig';
 import useUrlPresets from '../../hooks-query/useUrlPresets';
 import { setClientRemote } from '../../hooks/useSocket';
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ import Button from '../buttons/Button';
 import Dialog from '../dialog/Dialog';
 import Info from '../info/Info';
 import Input from '../input/input/Input';
-import AppLink from '../link/app-link/AppLink';
+import ExternalLink from '../link/external-link/ExternalLink';
 import Select from '../select/Select';

 import style from './RedirectClientModal.module.scss';
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ export function RedirectClientModal({ id, isOpen, name, currentPath, origin, onC
  };

  const enabledPresets = data.filter((preset) => preset.enabled);
+  const settingsUrl = `${window.location.origin}${baseURI}/?settings=sharing__presets`;

  const viewOptions = [
    ...navigatorConstants.map((view) => ({
@@ -66,34 +68,46 @@ export function RedirectClientModal({ id, isOpen, name, currentPath, origin, onC
      bodyElements={
        <>
          <Info>
-            Remotely redirect the client to a different URL. <br />
-            Either by entering a custom path or selecting a URL Preset.
-            <br />
-            <br />
-            <AppLink search='settings=sharing__presets'>Manage URL Presets</AppLink>
+            <Info.Body>
+              Remotely redirect the client to a different URL. Choose a custom path or select a URL Preset.
+            </Info.Body>
+            <Info.Footer>
+              <ExternalLink href={settingsUrl}>Manage URL Presets</ExternalLink>
+            </Info.Footer>
          </Info>
-          <div className={style.inlineEntry}>
-            <span className={style.label}>Enter custom path</span>
-            <label className={style.textEntry}>
-              {origin}
-              <Input placeholder='eg. /timer' fluid value={path} onChange={(event) => setPath(event.target.value)} />
-            </label>
-            <Button
-              variant='primary'
-              aria-label='Redirect'
-              disabled={path === currentPath || path === ''}
-              className={style.redirect}
-              onClick={() => handleRedirect(path)}
-            >
-              Redirect
-              <IoArrowForward />
-            </Button>
-          </div>
-          <div>
-            <span className={style.label}>Select View or URL Preset</span>
+          <section className={style.section}>
+            <div className={style.sectionHeader}>
+              <span className={style.label}>Enter custom path</span>
+              <span className={style.description}>Type the path the client should open.</span>
+            </div>
            <div className={style.inlineEntry}>
              <label className={style.textEntry}>
-                {origin}
+                <span className={style.origin}>{origin}</span>
+                <Input placeholder='eg. /timer' fluid value={path} onChange={(event) => setPath(event.target.value)} />
+              </label>
+              <Button
+                variant='primary'
+                aria-label='Redirect to custom path'
+                disabled={path === currentPath || path === ''}
+                className={style.redirect}
+                onClick={() => handleRedirect(path)}
+              >
+                Redirect
+                <IoArrowForward />
+              </Button>
+            </div>
+          </section>
+          <div className={style.separator} role='separator'>
+            <span>Or</span>
+          </div>
+          <section className={style.section}>
+            <div className={style.sectionHeader}>
+              <span className={style.label}>Select view or URL Preset</span>
+              <span className={style.description}>Choose from the available destinations.</span>
+            </div>
+            <div className={style.inlineEntry}>
+              <label className={style.textEntry}>
+                <span className={style.origin}>{origin}</span>
                <Select
                  fluid
                  options={viewOptions}
@@ -115,7 +129,7 @@ export function RedirectClientModal({ id, isOpen, name, currentPath, origin, onC
                Redirect <IoArrowForward />
              </Button>
            </div>
-          </div>
+          </section>
        </>
      }
    />
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+@use '../../../theme/ontimeStyles' as *;
+
+.form {
+  padding: 0.25rem 0.5rem 0.5rem;
+}
+
+.label {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+  color: $label-gray;
+  font-size: $inner-section-text-size;
+}
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import { setClientRemote } from '../../hooks/useSocket';
 import Dialog from '../dialog/Dialog';
 import Input from '../input/input/Input';

+import style from './RenameClientModal.module.scss';
+
 interface RenameClientModalProps {
  id: string;
  name?: string;
@@ -31,9 +33,22 @@ export function RenameClientModal({ id, name: currentName = '', isOpen, onClose
      isOpen={isOpen}
      title={`Rename Client: ${currentName}`}
      showCloseButton
+      showBackdrop
      onClose={onClose}
      bodyElements={
-        <Input height='large' placeholder='New name' value={name} onChange={(event) => setName(event.target.value)} />
+        <div className={style.form}>
+          <label className={style.label}>
+            Client name
+            <Input
+              height='large'
+              fluid
+              autoComplete='off'
+              placeholder='New name'
+              value={name}
+              onChange={(event) => setName(event.target.value)}
+            />
+          </label>
+        </div>
      }
      footerElements={
        <>
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 .dialog {
  position: fixed;
-  top: 10%;
+  top: 10vh;
  left: 50%;

  transform: translateX(-50%);

+  box-sizing: border-box;
+  width: min(600px, 90vw);
+  max-height: calc(90vh - 1rem);
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
  padding-inline: 1rem;
-  min-width: min(600px, 90vw);

  background-color: $gray-1250;
  color: $ui-white;
@@ -43,7 +47,8 @@
  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 0.5rem;

-  max-height: min(80vh, 600px);
+  flex: 1;
+  min-height: 0;
  overflow-y: auto;
 }

@@ -53,4 +58,5 @@
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: end;
  gap: 1rem;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+.eyebrow {
+  font-size: $aux-text-size;
+  font-weight: 400;
+  letter-spacing: 0.06em;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import { PropsWithChildren } from 'react';
+
+import { cx } from '../../utils/styleUtils';
+
+import style from './Eyebrow.module.scss';
+
+interface EyebrowProps {
+  className?: string;
+}
+
+export default function Eyebrow({ children, className }: PropsWithChildren<EyebrowProps>) {
+  return <span className={cx([style.eyebrow, className])}>{children}</span>;
+}
@@ -21,4 +21,15 @@
    outline: none;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 currentColor;
  }
+
+  &:hover .icon,
+  &:focus-visible .icon {
+    transform: translateX(0.25rem);
+  }
+}
+
+.icon {
+  flex: 0 0 1.5em;
+  font-size: 1em;
+  transition: transform $transition-time-action;
 }
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { MouseEvent, ReactNode } from 'react';
-import { IoOpenOutline } from 'react-icons/io5';
+import { HiArrowLongRight } from 'react-icons/hi2';

 import { openLink } from '../../../utils/linkUtils';
 import { cx } from '../../../utils/styleUtils';
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ interface ExternalLinkProps {
  href: string;
  children: ReactNode;
  inline?: boolean;
+  className?: string;
 }

-export default function ExternalLink({ href, inline, children }: ExternalLinkProps) {
+export default function ExternalLink({ href, inline, className, children }: ExternalLinkProps) {
  const handleClick = (event: MouseEvent) => {
    event.preventDefault();
    openLink(href);
@@ -23,10 +24,11 @@ export default function ExternalLink({ href, inline, children }: ExternalLinkPro
      href='#!'
      target='_blank'
      rel='noreferrer'
-      className={cx([style.link, inline && style.inline])}
+      className={cx([style.link, inline && style.inline, className])}
      onClick={handleClick}
    >
-      {children} <IoOpenOutline style={{ fontSize: '1em' }} />
+      {children}
+      <HiArrowLongRight className={style.icon} />
    </a>
  );
 }
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@
  left: 50%;
  transform: translateX(-50%);

-  padding-inline: 1rem;
-  min-width: min(880px, 90vw);
+  box-sizing: border-box;
+  width: min(880px, 90vw);
  min-height: min(200px, 10vh);
-  max-width: min(1200px, 90vw);
+  max-height: calc(90vh - 1rem);
+
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;

  background-color: $gray-1250;
  color: $ui-white;
@@ -17,14 +20,21 @@
  outline: none;
 }

+.compact {
+  min-width: 0;
+  width: min(680px, 90vw);
+}
+
+.small {
+  min-width: 0;
+  width: min(480px, 90vw);
+}
+
 .wide {
  top: 4vh;
-  min-width: min(1280px, 96vw);
-  max-width: min(1800px, 98vw);
-  height: 88vh;
-  max-height: 88vh;
-  display: flex;
-  flex-direction: column;
+  width: min(1800px, 98vw);
+  height: min(88vh, calc(96vh - 1rem));
+  min-height: 0;
 }

 .backdrop {
@@ -41,15 +51,19 @@

 .title {
  padding-block: 1rem;
+  padding-inline: 1rem;

  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
+  gap: 1rem;
 }

 .titleText {
+  min-width: 0;
  font-size: 1rem;
  font-weight: 600;
+  overflow-wrap: anywhere;
 }

 .body {
@@ -57,21 +71,23 @@
  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 0.5rem;

-  max-height: 60vh;
+  flex: 1;
+  min-height: 0;
+  padding: 0.5rem 1rem;
  overflow-y: auto;
+  scroll-padding-block: 0.5rem;
 }

 .wide .body {
-  flex: 1;
-  min-height: 0;
-  max-height: none;
  overflow: hidden;
 }

 .footer {
  padding-block: 1rem;
+  padding-inline: 1rem;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: end;
  gap: 1rem;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
 }
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ interface ModalProps {
  title?: string;
  showCloseButton?: boolean;
  showBackdrop?: boolean;
-  size?: 'default' | 'wide';
+  size?: 'small' | 'compact' | 'default' | 'wide';
  bodyElements: ReactNode;
  footerElements?: ReactNode;
  onClose: () => void;
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export default function Modal({
    >
      <BaseDialog.Portal>
        {showBackdrop && <BaseDialog.Backdrop className={style.backdrop} />}
-        <BaseDialog.Popup aria-label={title} className={cx([style.modal, size === 'wide' && style.wide])}>
+        <BaseDialog.Popup aria-label={title} className={cx([style.modal, style[size]])}>
          <div className={style.title}>
            {title ? <BaseDialog.Title className={style.titleText}>{title}</BaseDialog.Title> : <div />}
            {showCloseButton && (
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import './MultiPartProgressBar.scss';
 interface MultiPartProgressBar {
  now: MaybeNumber;
  complete: MaybeNumber;
+  eventId?: string | null;
  normalColor: string;
  warning?: MaybeNumber;
  warningColor: string;
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ export default function MultiPartProgressBar(props: MultiPartProgressBar) {
  const {
    now,
    complete,
+    eventId,
    normalColor,
    warning,
    warningColor,
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@ export default function MultiPartProgressBar(props: MultiPartProgressBar) {
    className = '',
  } = props;

-  const percentRemaining = 100 - useAnimatedProgress(now, complete);
+  const percentRemaining = 100 - useAnimatedProgress(now, complete, eventId);
  const dangerWidth = danger ? 100 - getProgress(danger, complete) : 0;
  const warningWidth = warning ? 100 - dangerWidth - getProgress(warning, complete) : 0;
  const isOvertime = now !== null && now < 0;
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-.separator {
-  border-color: $border-color-ondark;
-}
-
 .backdrop {
  position: fixed;
  inset: 0;
@@ -23,14 +19,15 @@

  width: 22rem;
  height: 100vh;
+  height: 100dvh;

  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
-  padding-block: 1rem;

  background-color: $gray-1250;
  color: $ui-white;
  border-right: 1px solid $gray-1100;
+  box-shadow: $box-shadow-right;

  &[data-open] {
    transform: translateX(0%);
@@ -50,22 +47,51 @@
 }

 .header {
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
-  height: 3.5rem;
-  padding-inline: 1.5rem;
+  gap: 1rem;
+  min-height: 4rem;
+  padding: 0.75rem 1rem 0.75rem 1.25rem;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid $white-10;
+}

+.headerText {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  min-width: 0;
+}
+
+.title {
  font-weight: 600;
  font-size: 1.25rem;
+  line-height: 1.2;
+}
+
+.clientName {
+  font-size: $aux-text-size;
+  color: $gray-600;
+  @include ellipsis-text;
 }

 .body {
  flex: 1;
+  min-height: 0;
  overflow-y: auto;
+  padding-block: 0.5rem 1rem;
 }

-.note {
-  margin-left: auto;
-  color: $white-20;
+.group {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+
+  &:not(:first-child) {
+    margin-top: 0.75rem;
+  }
+}
+
+.groupLabel {
+  padding: 0.5rem 1.25rem 0.25rem;
+  color: $gray-700;
 }
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { Dialog } from '@base-ui/react/dialog';
-import { useDisclosure, useFullscreen } from '@mantine/hooks';
-import { memo } from 'react';
-import { IoClose, IoContract, IoExpand, IoLockClosedOutline, IoSwapVertical } from 'react-icons/io5';
+import { useDisclosure, useFullscreenDocument } from '@mantine/hooks';
+import { memo, PropsWithChildren } from 'react';
+import { IoClose, IoExpand, IoLockClosedOutline, IoPencilOutline, IoSwapVertical } from 'react-icons/io5';
 import { LuCoffee } from 'react-icons/lu';
 import { useLocation } from 'react-router';

@@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ import { useClientStore } from '../../stores/clientStore';
 import { useViewOptionsStore } from '../../stores/viewOptions';
 import IconButton from '../buttons/IconButton';
 import { RenameClientModal } from '../client-modal/RenameClientModal';
+import Eyebrow from '../eyebrow/Eyebrow';
 import ClientLink from './client-link/ClientLink';
 import EditorNavigation from './editor-navigation/EditorNavigation';
 import NavigationMenuItem from './navigation-menu-item/NavigationMenuItem';
+import NavigationMenuToggle from './navigation-menu-item/NavigationMenuToggle';
 import OtherAddresses from './other-addresses/OtherAddresses';

 import style from './NavigationMenu.module.scss';
@@ -33,7 +35,7 @@ function NavigationMenu({ isOpen, onClose }: NavigationMenuProps) {
  const isSmallScreen = useIsSmallScreen();

  const [isRenameOpen, handlers] = useDisclosure(false);
-  const { fullscreen, toggle } = useFullscreen();
+  const { fullscreen, toggle } = useFullscreenDocument();
  const { mirror, toggleMirror } = useViewOptionsStore();
  const { keepAwake, toggleKeepAwake } = useKeepAwakeOptions();
  const location = useLocation();
@@ -52,75 +54,93 @@ function NavigationMenu({ isOpen, onClose }: NavigationMenuProps) {
        <RenameClientModal id={id} name={name} isOpen={isRenameOpen} onClose={handlers.close} />
        <Dialog.Popup className={style.drawer}>
          <div className={style.header}>
-            <Dialog.Title>Ontime</Dialog.Title>
-            <IconButton variant='subtle-white' size='large' onClick={onClose}>
+            <div className={style.headerText}>
+              <Dialog.Title className={style.title}>Ontime</Dialog.Title>
+              {name && <span className={style.clientName}>{name}</span>}
+            </div>
+            <IconButton variant='subtle-white' size='large' aria-label='Close menu' onClick={onClose}>
              <IoClose />
            </IconButton>
          </div>
          <div className={style.body}>
-            {supportsFullscreen && (
-              <NavigationMenuItem active={fullscreen} onClick={toggle}>
-                Toggle Fullscreen
-                {fullscreen ? <IoContract /> : <IoExpand />}
+            <MenuGroup label='This screen'>
+              {supportsFullscreen && (
+                <NavigationMenuToggle checked={fullscreen} icon={<IoExpand />} label='Fullscreen' onToggle={toggle} />
+              )}
+              <NavigationMenuToggle
+                checked={mirror}
+                icon={<IoSwapVertical />}
+                label='Flip Screen'
+                onToggle={() => toggleMirror()}
+              />
+              {canUseWakeLock && (
+                <NavigationMenuToggle
+                  checked={keepAwake}
+                  icon={<LuCoffee />}
+                  label='Keep Awake'
+                  onToggle={toggleKeepAwake}
+                />
+              )}
+              <NavigationMenuItem onClick={handlers.open}>
+                <IoPencilOutline />
+                Rename Client
              </NavigationMenuItem>
-            )}
-            <NavigationMenuItem active={mirror} onClick={() => toggleMirror()}>
-              Flip Screen
-              <IoSwapVertical />
-              {mirror && <span className={style.note}>Active</span>}
-            </NavigationMenuItem>
-            {canUseWakeLock && (
-              <NavigationMenuItem active={keepAwake} onClick={toggleKeepAwake}>
-                Keep Awake
-                <LuCoffee />
-                {keepAwake && <span className={style.note}>Active</span>}
-              </NavigationMenuItem>
-            )}
-            <NavigationMenuItem onClick={handlers.open}>Rename Client</NavigationMenuItem>
+            </MenuGroup>

-            <hr className={style.separator} />
-
-            <EditorNavigation />
-            <ClientLink
-              to='cuesheet'
-              current={location.pathname === '/cuesheet'}
-              postAction={isSmallScreen ? onClose : undefined}
-            >
-              <IoLockClosedOutline />
-              Cuesheet
-            </ClientLink>
-            <ClientLink to='op' current={location.pathname === '/op'} postAction={isSmallScreen ? onClose : undefined}>
-              <IoLockClosedOutline />
-              Operator
-            </ClientLink>
-
-            <hr className={style.separator} />
-
-            {navigatorConstants.map((route) => (
+            <MenuGroup label='Ontime app'>
+              <EditorNavigation />
              <ClientLink
-                key={route.url}
-                to={route.url}
-                current={location.pathname === `/${route.url}`}
+                to='cuesheet'
+                current={location.pathname === '/cuesheet'}
                postAction={isSmallScreen ? onClose : undefined}
              >
-                {route.label}
+                <IoLockClosedOutline />
+                Cuesheet
              </ClientLink>
-            ))}
+              <ClientLink
+                to='op'
+                current={location.pathname === '/op'}
+                postAction={isSmallScreen ? onClose : undefined}
+              >
+                <IoLockClosedOutline />
+                Operator
+              </ClientLink>
+            </MenuGroup>
+
+            <MenuGroup label='Views'>
+              {navigatorConstants.map((route) => (
+                <ClientLink
+                  key={route.url}
+                  to={route.url}
+                  current={location.pathname === `/${route.url}`}
+                  postAction={isSmallScreen ? onClose : undefined}
+                >
+                  {route.label}
+                </ClientLink>
+              ))}
+            </MenuGroup>

            <PresetNavigation isSmallScreen={isSmallScreen} onClose={onClose} />
          </div>

-          {isLocalhost && (
-            <div>
-              <OtherAddresses currentLocation={location.pathname} />
-            </div>
-          )}
+          {isLocalhost && <OtherAddresses currentLocation={location.pathname} />}
        </Dialog.Popup>
      </Dialog.Portal>
    </Dialog.Root>
  );
 }

+function MenuGroup({ label, children }: PropsWithChildren<{ label: string }>) {
+  return (
+    <div className={style.group}>
+      <div className={style.groupLabel}>
+        <Eyebrow>{label}</Eyebrow>
+      </div>
+      {children}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
 function PresetNavigation({ isSmallScreen, onClose }: { isSmallScreen: boolean; onClose: () => void }) {
  const location = useLocation();
  const { data: urlPresets } = useUrlPresets();
@@ -129,8 +149,7 @@ function PresetNavigation({ isSmallScreen, onClose }: { isSmallScreen: boolean;
  if (navPresets.length === 0) return null;

  return (
-    <>
-      <hr className={style.separator} />
+    <MenuGroup label='Presets'>
      {navPresets.map((preset) => (
        <ClientLink
          key={preset.alias}
@@ -141,6 +160,6 @@ function PresetNavigation({ isSmallScreen, onClose }: { isSmallScreen: boolean;
          {preset.alias}
        </ClientLink>
      ))}
-    </>
+    </MenuGroup>
  );
 }
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-import { useDisclosure, useHotkeys } from '@mantine/hooks';
-import { memo } from 'react';
+import { useHotkeys } from '@mantine/hooks';
+import { memo, useCallback, useState } from 'react';
 import { useSearchParams } from 'react-router';

-import { hasCustomParams, useSavedViewParams } from '../../stores/savedViewParams';
+import { hasCustomParams } from '../../stores/savedViewParams';
 import { useViewParamsEditorStore } from '../view-params-editor/viewParamsEditor.store';
 import FloatingNavigation from './floating-navigation/FloatingNavigation';
 import NavigationMenu from './NavigationMenu';
@@ -15,22 +15,37 @@ interface ViewNavigationMenuProps {
  suppressSettings?: boolean;
 }

+function isInteractiveKeyboardAction(target: EventTarget | null): boolean {
+  if (!(target instanceof HTMLElement)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return (
+    target.closest(
+      'button, a, input, textarea, select, [role="button"], [role="checkbox"], [role="switch"], [contenteditable]:not([contenteditable="false"])',
+    ) !== null
+  );
+}
+
 export default memo(ViewNavigationMenu);
 function ViewNavigationMenu({ isNavigationLocked, suppressSettings }: ViewNavigationMenuProps) {
-  const [isMenuOpen, menuHandler] = useDisclosure();
+  const [isMenuOpen, setIsMenuOpen] = useState(false);
  const { open: showEditFormDrawer } = useViewParamsEditorStore();
  const [searchParams] = useSearchParams();
-  const savedParams = useSavedViewParams((store) => store.params);
-  const hasSavedChanges = hasCustomParams(searchParams) || Object.keys(savedParams).length > 0;
+  const hasSavedChanges = hasCustomParams(searchParams);
+
+  const toggleMenu = useCallback(() => setIsMenuOpen((prev) => !prev), []);
+  const closeMenu = useCallback(() => setIsMenuOpen(false), []);

  useHotkeys([
    [
      'Space',
-      () => {
-        if (isNavigationLocked) return;
-        menuHandler.toggle();
+      (event) => {
+        if (isNavigationLocked || isInteractiveKeyboardAction(event.target)) return;
+        event.preventDefault();
+        toggleMenu();
      },
-      { preventDefault: true },
+      { preventDefault: false },
    ],
    [
      'mod + ,',
@@ -49,11 +64,11 @@ function ViewNavigationMenu({ isNavigationLocked, suppressSettings }: ViewNaviga
  return (
    <>
      <FloatingNavigation
-        toggleMenu={isNavigationLocked ? undefined : menuHandler.toggle}
+        toggleMenu={isNavigationLocked ? undefined : toggleMenu}
        toggleSettings={suppressSettings ? undefined : showEditFormDrawer}
        hasSavedChanges={hasSavedChanges}
      />
-      {!isNavigationLocked && <NavigationMenu isOpen={isMenuOpen} onClose={menuHandler.close} />}
+      {!isNavigationLocked && <NavigationMenu isOpen={isMenuOpen} onClose={closeMenu} />}
    </>
  );
 }
@@ -2,35 +2,68 @@
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;

-  padding: 0.75rem 1.5rem;
-  gap: 0.5rem;
+  padding: 0.625rem 1.25rem;
+  gap: 0.625rem;
  width: 100%;

-  border-left: 4px solid transparent;
-  color: $action-text-color;
+  border-left: 3px solid transparent;
+  color: $gray-200;
+  font-size: $text-body-size;
  white-space: nowrap;
+  text-align: left;

  cursor: pointer;

-  transition-property: color;
+  transition-property: color, background-color;
  transition-duration: $transition-time-action;

+  // keep icons on a fixed box so labels align regardless of the glyph
+  > svg {
+    flex-shrink: 0;
+    width: 1.125rem;
+    height: 1.125rem;
+    color: $gray-500;
+    transition: color $transition-time-action;
+  }
+
  &:hover {
-    color: $ontime-color;
-    background-color: $gray-1350;
+    background-color: $white-3;
+    color: $ui-white;
+
+    > svg {
+      color: $gray-300;
+    }
  }

  &:active {
-    background-color: $border-color-ondark;
+    background-color: $white-7;
  }

-  &:focus {
+  &:focus-visible {
    outline: 2px solid $blue-500;
-    background-color: $gray-1350;
+    outline-offset: -2px;
+    background-color: $white-3;
+  }
+
+  // toggle rows are labels, the focusable control sits inside them
+  &:focus-within {
+    background-color: $white-3;
  }

  &.current {
-    background-color: $gray-1300;
-    border-left: 4px solid $action-text-color;
+    background-color: $bg-active;
+    border-left-color: $blue-400;
+    color: $ui-white;
+    font-weight: 600;
+
+    > svg {
+      color: $blue-300;
+    }
  }
 }
+
+.label {
+  flex: 1;
+  min-width: 0;
+  @include ellipsis-text;
+}
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { PropsWithChildren } from 'react';

-import { isKeyEnter } from '../../../utils/keyEvent';
+import { isKeyEnter, isKeySpace } from '../../../utils/keyEvent';
 import { cx } from '../../../utils/styleUtils';

 import style from './NavigationMenuItem.module.scss';
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ interface NavigationMenuItemProps {
  onClick: () => void;
 }

+/** A row in the navigation menu, and the single place which decides how a row reacts to input */
 export default function NavigationMenuItem({
  active,
  className,
@@ -24,7 +25,9 @@ export default function NavigationMenuItem({
      role='button'
      onClick={onClick}
      onKeyDown={(event) => {
-        if (isKeyEnter(event)) {
+        if (isKeyEnter(event) || isKeySpace(event)) {
+          event.preventDefault();
+          event.stopPropagation();
          onClick();
        }
      }}
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import { ReactNode } from 'react';
+
+import Switch from '../../switch/Switch';
+
+import style from './NavigationMenuItem.module.scss';
+
+interface NavigationMenuToggleProps {
+  checked: boolean;
+  icon: ReactNode;
+  label: string;
+  onToggle: () => void;
+}
+
+/** A menu row which reflects, and toggles, an on/off state */
+export default function NavigationMenuToggle({ checked, icon, label, onToggle }: NavigationMenuToggleProps) {
+  return (
+    <label className={style.link}>
+      {icon}
+      <span className={style.label}>{label}</span>
+      <Switch checked={checked} onCheckedChange={onToggle} />
+    </label>
+  );
+}
@@ -1,22 +1,52 @@
+.footer {
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+  padding: 0.75rem 0;
+  border-top: 1px solid $white-10;
+}
+
 .header {
-  font-size: calc(1rem - 2px);
-  margin-left: 1rem;
+  padding: 0 1.25rem 0.25rem;
  color: $gray-700;
 }

 .interfaces {
-  padding: 0.5rem 0.5rem;
+  padding: 0.25rem 1.25rem 0;
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
-  gap: 0.5rem;
+  gap: 0.25rem;
+}
+
+.interface {
+  min-width: 0;
+  max-width: 100%;
+
+  > div {
+    max-width: 100%;
+
+    > button:first-child {
+      min-width: 0;
+      max-width: calc(100% - 1.5rem);
+      justify-content: flex-start;
+      padding-inline: 0.5rem;
+    }
+  }
 }

 .interfaceCopy {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
+  min-width: 0;
+  width: 100%;
+}
+
+.address {
+  overflow: hidden;
+  text-overflow: ellipsis;
+  white-space: nowrap;
 }

 .goIcon {
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
  @include rotate-fourty-five;
  margin-left: 0.25rem;
  margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import { IoArrowUp } from 'react-icons/io5';
 import useInfo from '../../../hooks-query/useInfo';
 import { linkToOtherHost, openLink } from '../../../utils/linkUtils';
 import CopyTag from '../../copy-tag/CopyTag';
+import Eyebrow from '../../eyebrow/Eyebrow';
+import { getExternalInterfaces } from './otherAddresses.utils';

 import style from './OtherAddresses.module.scss';

@@ -12,32 +14,33 @@ interface OtherAddressesProps {

 export default function OtherAddresses({ currentLocation }: OtherAddressesProps) {
  const { data } = useInfo();
+  const externalInterfaces = getExternalInterfaces(data.networkInterfaces);

-  // there is no point showing this if we only have one interface
-  if (data.networkInterfaces.length < 2) {
+  if (externalInterfaces.length === 0) {
    return null;
  }

  return (
-    <>
-      <div className={style.header}>Accessible on external networks</div>
+    <div className={style.footer}>
+      <div className={style.header}>
+        <Eyebrow>Also available at</Eyebrow>
+      </div>
      <div className={style.interfaces}>
-        {data?.networkInterfaces?.map((nif) => {
-          if (nif.name === 'localhost') {
-            return null;
-          }
-
+        {externalInterfaces.map((nif) => {
          const address = linkToOtherHost(nif.address, currentLocation);

          return (
-            <CopyTag key={nif.name} copyValue={address} onClick={() => openLink(address)} size='small'>
-              <span className={style.interfaceCopy}>
-                {nif.address} <IoArrowUp className={style.goIcon} />
-              </span>
-            </CopyTag>
+            <div key={nif.name} className={style.interface}>
+              <CopyTag copyValue={address} onClick={() => openLink(address)} size='small'>
+                <span className={style.interfaceCopy}>
+                  <span className={style.address}>{nif.address}</span>
+                  <IoArrowUp className={style.goIcon} />
+                </span>
+              </CopyTag>
+            </div>
          );
        })}
      </div>
-    </>
+    </div>
  );
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+
+import { getExternalInterfaces } from '../otherAddresses.utils';
+
+describe('getExternalInterfaces', () => {
+  test('returns no alternatives when localhost is the only interface', () => {
+    expect(getExternalInterfaces([{ name: 'localhost', address: '127.0.0.1' }])).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  test('does not treat an interface name as deployment information', () => {
+    expect(
+      getExternalInterfaces([
+        { name: 'localhost', address: '127.0.0.1' },
+        { name: 'cloud', address: '192.168.1.42' },
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual([{ name: 'cloud', address: '192.168.1.42' }]);
+  });
+
+  test('returns non-local interfaces when local and external interfaces are available', () => {
+    expect(
+      getExternalInterfaces([
+        { name: 'localhost', address: '127.0.0.1' },
+        { name: 'Wi-Fi', address: '192.168.1.42' },
+        { name: 'Ethernet', address: '10.0.0.42' },
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual([
+      { name: 'Wi-Fi', address: '192.168.1.42' },
+      { name: 'Ethernet', address: '10.0.0.42' },
+    ]);
+  });
+});
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import { type NetworkInterface } from 'ontime-types';
+
+/** Returns network addresses other than the localhost address injected by the info endpoint. */
+export function getExternalInterfaces(interfaces: NetworkInterface[]) {
+  return interfaces.filter((networkInterface) => networkInterface.name !== 'localhost');
+}
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ import './ProgressBar.scss';
 interface ProgressBarProps {
  current: MaybeNumber;
  duration: MaybeNumber;
+  eventId?: string | null;
  className?: string;
 }

-export default function ProgressBar(props: ProgressBarProps) {
-  const { current, duration, className } = props;
-  const progress = useAnimatedProgress(current, duration);
+export default function ProgressBar({ current, duration, eventId, className }: ProgressBarProps) {
+  const progress = useAnimatedProgress(current, duration, eventId);

  return (
    <div className={`progress-bar__bg ${className}`}>
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@
  color: $ui-white;
 }

+.active {
+  border: 1px solid $green-700;
+  color: $green-400;
+}
+
 .warning {
  background-color: $orange-1300;
  color: $orange-300;
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import style from './Tag.module.scss';

 interface TagProps {
  className?: string;
-  variant?: 'default' | 'warning';
+  variant?: 'default' | 'active' | 'warning';
 }

 export default function Tag({ className, variant = 'default', children }: PropsWithChildren<TagProps>) {
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 0.5rem;
+
+  > span {
+    font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
+    text-align: right;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
+  }
 }

 // attempt to match with ontimeTextInputs
@@ -1,37 +1,77 @@
-.inline {
-  display: inline-flex;
-  align-items: center;
-  flex-wrap: wrap;
-  gap: 1rem;
+.multiOptionList {
+  overflow-y: auto;
+  max-height: 12rem;
+  background: $gray-1200;
+  border: 1px solid $gray-1100;
+  border-radius: $component-border-radius-md;
 }

-// styles from subtle button
 .toggleSelect {
+  box-sizing: border-box;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
-  gap: 0.25rem;
-  padding-inline: 0.5rem;
-  height: 2.5rem;
-  background: $gray-1050;
-  color: $ui-white;
+  gap: 0.75rem;
+  min-height: 2.5rem;
+  padding: 0.5rem 0.75rem;
+  background: transparent;
+  border: 0;
+  color: $gray-300;
  line-height: 1em;
-  border-radius: $component-border-radius-md;
+  cursor: pointer;
+  transition:
+    background-color $transition-time-action,
+    border-color $transition-time-action,
+    color $transition-time-action;

-  &:hover:not(:disabled):not(:active) {
+  &:hover {
    background: $gray-1000;
-    color: $blue-500;
+    color: $ui-white;
  }

-  &:active:not(:disabled) {
+  &:active {
    background: $gray-1100;
-    border-color: $gray-1250;
+  }
+
+  &:focus-within {
+    outline: 2px solid $blue-500;
+    outline-offset: -2px;
+  }
+
+  &.selected {
+    background: $bg-active;
+    box-shadow: inset 3px 0 $blue-400;
+    color: $ui-white;
+  }
+
+  &:not(:last-child) {
+    border-bottom: 1px solid $white-7;
+  }
+
+  > [role='checkbox'] {
+    flex: 0 0 auto;
+    width: 1.125rem;
+    height: 1.125rem;
+    border: 1px solid $gray-400;
+
+    &[data-unchecked] {
+      background: $gray-1100;
+    }
+
+    &[data-checked] {
+      border-color: $blue-400;
+    }
+
+    &:focus-visible {
+      outline: 0;
+    }
  }

  &::after {
    content: '';
-    margin-left: 0.25rem;
-    width: 0.75em;
-    height: 0.75em;
+    flex: 0 0 auto;
+    margin-left: auto;
+    width: 0.625rem;
+    height: 0.625rem;
    background: var(--user-bg, $gray-900);
    border-radius: 50%;
  }
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { ComponentProps, useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import { useSearchParams } from 'react-router';

 import { isStringBoolean } from '../../../views/common/viewUtils';
+import { cx } from '../../utils/styleUtils';
 import Checkbox from '../checkbox/Checkbox';
 import Input from '../input/input/Input';
 import Select, { SelectOption } from '../select/Select';
@@ -107,18 +108,20 @@ function MultiOption({ paramField, options }: EditFormMultiOptionProps) {
  return (
    <>
      <input name={id} hidden readOnly value={paramState.join(',')} />
-      <div className={style.inline}>
+      <div className={style.multiOptionList}>
        {values.map((option) => {
+          const selected = paramState.includes(option.value);
+
          return (
            <label
              key={option.value}
-              className={style.toggleSelect}
+              className={cx([style.toggleSelect, selected && style.selected])}
              style={{
                '--user-bg': option.colour,
              }}
            >
              <Checkbox
-                checked={paramState.includes(option.value)}
+                checked={selected}
                onCheckedChange={(checked) => toggleValue(option.value, checked as boolean)}
              />
              {option.label}
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-.drawerFooter {
-  display: flex;
-  justify-content: end;
-  gap: $section-spacing;
-
-  button {
-    padding: 0 2em;
-  }
-}
-
 .backdrop {
  position: fixed;
  inset: 0;
@@ -34,11 +24,11 @@

  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
-  padding-block: 1rem 1.5rem;

-  background-color: $gray-1250;
+  background-color: $ui-black;
  color: $ui-white;
  border-left: 1px solid $gray-1100;
+  box-shadow: $box-shadow-l1;

  &[data-open] {
    transform: translateX(0%);
@@ -58,36 +48,54 @@
 }

 .header {
-  padding-inline: 1rem;
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
-  height: 3.5rem;
+  gap: 1rem;
+  min-height: 4rem;
+  padding: 0.75rem 1rem;
+}

+.headerText {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  min-width: 0;
+}
+
+.title {
  font-weight: 600;
  font-size: 1.25rem;
+  line-height: 1.2;
+}
+
+.target {
+  font-size: $aux-text-size;
+  color: $gray-600;
 }

 .body {
  flex: 1;
-  padding-inline: 1rem;
-  padding-bottom: 10vh;
+  padding: 1rem;
  overflow-y: auto;
 }

 .footer {
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
  display: flex;
-  padding-inline: 1rem;
+  padding: 0.75rem 1rem;
  gap: 1rem;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: flex-end;
+
+  background-color: $ui-black;
+  border-top: 1px solid $white-10;
 }

 .sectionList {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
-  gap: 2rem;
-  padding-right: 0.5rem;
+  gap: 0.75rem;
 }

 .info {
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { FormEvent, memo } from 'react';
 import { IoClose } from 'react-icons/io5';
 import { useSearchParams } from 'react-router';

+import { viewLabels } from '../../../viewerConfig';
 import useViewSettings from '../../hooks-query/useViewSettings';
 import { useIsSmallScreen } from '../../hooks/useIsSmallScreen';
 import { useSavedViewParams } from '../../stores/savedViewParams';
@@ -71,8 +72,17 @@ function ViewParamsEditor({ target, viewOptions }: EditFormDrawerProps) {
        <Dialog.Backdrop className={style.backdrop} />
        <Dialog.Popup className={style.drawer}>
          <div className={style.header}>
-            <Dialog.Title>Customise</Dialog.Title>
-            <IconButton variant='subtle-white' size='large' data-testid='close-view-params' onClick={handleClose}>
+            <div className={style.headerText}>
+              <Dialog.Title className={style.title}>Customise</Dialog.Title>
+              <span className={style.target}>{viewLabels[target]}</span>
+            </div>
+            <IconButton
+              variant='subtle-white'
+              size='large'
+              aria-label='Close'
+              data-testid='close-view-params'
+              onClick={handleClose}
+            >
              <IoClose />
            </IconButton>
          </div>
@@ -1,10 +1,21 @@
 .presetSection {
  background-color: $gray-1350;
+  border: 1px solid $white-10;
+  border-radius: $component-border-radius-md;
+  margin-bottom: 0.75rem;
+}
+
+.header {
+  padding: 0.5rem 1rem;
+  min-height: 2.25rem;
  display: flex;
-  flex-direction: column;
-  gap: 0.25rem;
-  padding: 1rem 0.5rem;
-  margin-bottom: 1rem;
+  align-items: center;
+
+  color: $gray-300;
+}
+
+.presetList {
+  border-top: 1px solid $white-7;
  max-height: 10rem;
  overflow-y: auto;
  scrollbar-gutter: stable;
@@ -14,12 +25,39 @@
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 0.5rem;
+  min-height: 2.5rem;
+  padding: 0.375rem 1rem;
+  font-size: $inner-section-text-size;
+
+  &:not(:last-child) {
+    border-bottom: 1px solid $white-7;
+  }

  &.active {
-    color: $blue-500;
+    background-color: $bg-active;
+    box-shadow: inset 3px 0 $blue-400;
+    color: $ui-white;
+    font-weight: 600;
  }
 }

+.presetName {
+  min-width: 0;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  text-overflow: ellipsis;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+
 .presetActions {
  margin-left: auto;
 }
+
+.current {
+  display: inline-flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.25rem;
+  margin-left: auto;
+  color: $blue-400;
+  font-size: $aux-text-size;
+  font-weight: 600;
+}
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { useSearchParams } from 'react-router';
 import { useViewUrlPresets } from '../../hooks-query/useUrlPresets';
 import { cx } from '../../utils/styleUtils';
 import Button from '../buttons/Button';
+import Eyebrow from '../eyebrow/Eyebrow';

 import style from './ViewParamsPresets.module.scss';

@@ -26,22 +27,31 @@ export function ViewParamsPresets({ target }: { target: OntimeView }) {

  return (
    <div className={style.presetSection}>
-      {viewPresets.map((preset) => {
-        const active = searchParams.get('alias') === preset.alias;
-        return (
-          <div key={preset.alias} className={cx([style.preset, active && style.active])}>
-            <div>{preset.alias}</div>
-            <Button
-              variant={active ? 'ghosted' : 'subtle-white'}
-              onClick={() => handleRecall(preset)}
-              disabled={active}
-              className={style.presetActions}
-            >
-              {active ? 'Applied' : 'Apply'}
-            </Button>
-          </div>
-        );
-      })}
+      <div className={style.header}>
+        <Eyebrow>Saved presets</Eyebrow>
+      </div>
+      <div className={style.presetList}>
+        {viewPresets.map((preset) => {
+          const active = searchParams.get('alias') === preset.alias;
+          return (
+            <div key={preset.alias} className={cx([style.preset, active && style.active])}>
+              <span className={style.presetName}>{preset.alias}</span>
+              {active ? (
+                <span className={style.current}>Current</span>
+              ) : (
+                <Button
+                  variant='ghosted'
+                  size='small'
+                  onClick={() => handleRecall(preset)}
+                  className={style.presetActions}
+                >
+                  Apply
+                </Button>
+              )}
+            </div>
+          );
+        })}
+      </div>
    </div>
  );
 }
@@ -1,48 +1,118 @@
 .section {
+  overflow: hidden;
+
  color: $ui-white;
  font-size: 1rem;
+  background-color: $white-3;
+  border: 1px solid $gray-1100;
+  border-radius: $component-border-radius-md;
 }

 .sectionHeader {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
  align-items: center;
-  height: 2rem;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+  width: 100%;
+  min-height: 2.75rem;
+  padding: 0.5rem 1rem;
+
+  background: transparent;
+  border: 0;
+  font: inherit;
+  text-align: left;
+
+  color: $gray-300;

  &.collapsible {
    cursor: pointer;
+    transition-property: color, background-color;
+    transition-duration: $transition-time-action;
+
+    &:hover {
+      background-color: $white-3;
+      color: $ui-white;
+    }
+
+    &:focus-visible {
+      outline: 2px solid $blue-500;
+      outline-offset: -2px;
+    }
  }
 }

+.sectionTitle {
+  display: inline-flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+/** marks a section which holds values coming from the URL */
+.customised {
+  width: 0.4rem;
+  height: 0.4rem;
+  border-radius: 50%;
+  background-color: $active-indicator;
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+}
+
+.chevron {
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+  rotate: 180deg;
+  transition: rotate 300ms cubic-bezier(0.45, 1.005, 0, 1.005);
+
+  &.closed {
+    rotate: 0deg;
+  }
+}
+
+.options {
+  padding-inline: 1rem;
+  border-top: 1px solid $white-7;
+}
+
 .label {
-  margin-top: $section-spacing;
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr);
+  row-gap: 0.25rem;
+  padding: 0.75rem 0;
  font-size: $inner-section-text-size;
-  color: $label-gray;
-  display: flex;
-  flex-direction: column;
-  gap: 0.25rem;
+
+  &:not(:last-child) {
+    border-bottom: 1px solid $white-7;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Compact controls sit beside their label instead of below it.
+ * Placement is done with grid areas so that the markup stays flat.
+ */
+.inline {
+  grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1fr) auto;
+  align-items: center;
+  column-gap: 1rem;
+
+  > .title {
+    grid-area: 1 / 1;
+  }
+
+  > .description {
+    grid-area: 2 / 1;
+  }
+
+  > *:last-child {
+    grid-area: 1 / 2 / span 2;
+  }
 }

 .title {
-  font-size: $inner-section-text-size;
-  display: block;
-  width: 100%;
+  color: $ui-white;
 }

 .description {
-  font-size: $inner-section-text-size;
-  display: block;
-  color: $modal-note-color;
-}
-
-.closed {
-  transition: rotate 300ms cubic-bezier(0.45, 1.005, 0, 1.005);
-  rotate: 0deg;
-}
-
-.open {
-  transition: rotate 300ms cubic-bezier(0.45, 1.005, 0, 1.005);
-  rotate: 180deg;
+  color: $gray-400;
+  font-size: $aux-text-size;
+  line-height: 1.4;
 }

 .hidden {
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import { useLocalStorage } from '@mantine/hooks';
 import { IoChevronDown } from 'react-icons/io5';
+import { useSearchParams } from 'react-router';

 import { cx } from '../../utils/styleUtils';
+import Eyebrow from '../eyebrow/Eyebrow';
 import { OptionTitle } from './constants';
 import ParamInput from './ParamInput';
 import { type ParamField } from './viewParams.types';
@@ -14,50 +16,74 @@ interface ViewParamsSectionProps {
  options: ParamField[];
 }

+/** Fields which are compact enough to share a row with their label */
+function isInlineField(option: ParamField): boolean {
+  return option.type === 'boolean' || option.type === 'colour';
+}
+
 export default function ViewParamsSection({ title, collapsible, options }: ViewParamsSectionProps) {
  const [collapsed, setCollapsed] = useLocalStorage({ key: `params-${title}`, defaultValue: false });
+  const [searchParams] = useSearchParams();

-  const handleCollapse = () => {
-    if (collapsible) {
-      setCollapsed((prev) => !prev);
-    }
-  };
+  // hidden options are inputs without a UI, there is nothing to frame them with
+  if (title === OptionTitle.Hidden) {
+    return <HiddenContents options={options} />;
+  }
+
+  const isCollapsed = Boolean(collapsible && collapsed);

  return (
    <section className={style.section}>
-      {title === OptionTitle.Hidden ? (
-        <HiddenContents options={options} />
-      ) : (
-        <>
-          <div className={cx([style.sectionHeader, collapsible && style.collapsible])} onClick={handleCollapse}>
-            {title}
-            {collapsible && <IoChevronDown className={cx([collapsed ? style.closed : style.open])} />}
-          </div>
-          <SectionContents options={options} collapsed={collapsed} />
-        </>
-      )}
-    </section>
-  );
-}
-
-interface SectionContentsProps {
-  options: ParamField[];
-  collapsed: boolean;
-}
-
-function SectionContents({ options, collapsed }: SectionContentsProps) {
-  return (
-    <>
-      {options.map((option) => {
-        return (
-          <label key={option.title} className={cx([style.label, collapsed && style.hidden])}>
+      <SectionHeader
+        title={title}
+        isCustomised={options.some((option) => searchParams.has(option.id))}
+        collapsed={isCollapsed}
+        onToggle={collapsible ? () => setCollapsed((prev) => !prev) : undefined}
+      />
+      {/* collapsed options stay mounted: the form reads its values from the DOM */}
+      <div className={cx([style.options, isCollapsed && style.hidden])}>
+        {options.map((option) => (
+          <label key={option.title} className={cx([style.label, isInlineField(option) && style.inline])}>
            <span className={style.title}>{option.title}</span>
            <span className={style.description}>{option.description}</span>
            <ParamInput paramField={option} />
          </label>
-        );
-      })}
-    </>
+        ))}
+      </div>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
+
+interface SectionHeaderProps {
+  title: string;
+  isCustomised: boolean;
+  collapsed: boolean;
+  /** a header without a toggle belongs to a section which cannot collapse */
+  onToggle?: () => void;
+}
+
+function SectionHeader({ title, isCustomised, collapsed, onToggle }: SectionHeaderProps) {
+  const label = (
+    <Eyebrow className={style.sectionTitle}>
+      {title}
+      {isCustomised && <span className={style.customised} title='Contains custom values' />}
+    </Eyebrow>
+  );
+
+  if (!onToggle) {
+    return <div className={style.sectionHeader}>{label}</div>;
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <button
+      type='button'
+      className={cx([style.sectionHeader, style.collapsible])}
+      aria-expanded={!collapsed}
+      onClick={onToggle}
+    >
+      {label}
+      <IoChevronDown className={cx([style.chevron, collapsed && style.closed])} />
+    </button>
  );
 }

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { TimerLifeCycle } from 'ontime-types';
+
+/**
+ * User facing labels for the timer lifecycle
+ * Shared between the automation settings and the rundown event editor
+ * so that a lifecycle is named the same everywhere it is shown
+ */
+export const lifecycleLabels: Record<TimerLifeCycle, string> = {
+  [TimerLifeCycle.onLoad]: 'On Load',
+  [TimerLifeCycle.onStart]: 'On Start',
+  [TimerLifeCycle.onPause]: 'On Pause',
+  [TimerLifeCycle.onStop]: 'On Stop',
+  [TimerLifeCycle.onClock]: 'Every second',
+  [TimerLifeCycle.onUpdate]: 'On Timer Update',
+  [TimerLifeCycle.onFinish]: 'On Finish',
+  [TimerLifeCycle.onWarning]: 'On Warning',
+  [TimerLifeCycle.onDanger]: 'On Danger',
+};
+
+/**
+ * Resolves a lifecycle to its user facing label, falling back to the raw value
+ */
+export function getLifecycleLabel(cycle: TimerLifeCycle | string): string {
+  return lifecycleLabels[cycle as TimerLifeCycle] ?? cycle;
+}
@@ -1,17 +1,34 @@
 import { useQuery } from '@tanstack/react-query';
-import { OntimeReport } from 'ontime-types';
+import type { ReportData } from 'ontime-types';
 import { MILLIS_PER_HOUR } from 'ontime-utils';

 import { REPORT } from '../api/constants';
 import { fetchReport } from '../api/report';

+const emptyReport: ReportData = {
+  eventReports: {},
+  rundown: null,
+  show: {
+    plannedStart: null,
+    plannedEnd: null,
+    plannedDuration: null,
+    actualStart: null,
+    actualEnd: null,
+    actualDuration: null,
+  },
+};
+
 export default function useReport() {
-  const { data, refetch } = useQuery<OntimeReport>({
+  const { data: report, refetch } = useQuery<ReportData>({
    queryKey: REPORT,
    queryFn: ({ signal }) => fetchReport({ signal }),
-    placeholderData: (previousData, _previousQuery) => previousData,
+    placeholderData: (previousData) => previousData,
    staleTime: MILLIS_PER_HOUR,
  });

-  return { data: data ?? {}, refetch };
+  return {
+    data: report?.eventReports ?? emptyReport.eventReports,
+    report: report ?? emptyReport,
+    refetch,
+  };
 }
@@ -1,26 +1,34 @@
-import { MaybeNumber, Playback } from 'ontime-types';
+import { EntryId, MaybeNumber, Playback } from 'ontime-types';
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';

 import { getProgress } from '../utils/getProgress';
-import { usePlayback } from './useSocket';
+import { useIsOnline, usePlayback } from './useSocket';

 /**
 * Returns the live completion percentage (0–100) of a countdown, interpolated locally.
 */
-export function useAnimatedProgress(current: MaybeNumber, duration: MaybeNumber): number {
+export function useAnimatedProgress(current: MaybeNumber, duration: MaybeNumber, eventId?: EntryId | null): number {
  const playback = usePlayback();
+  const isOnline = useIsOnline();
  const isRunning = playback === Playback.Play || playback === Playback.Roll;

-  const baseline = useRef({ current, at: performance.now() });
+  const baseline = useRef({ current, duration, eventId, playback, at: performance.now() });
  const [, setTick] = useState(0);
+  const now = performance.now();

-  // there is only something to animate while a running timer is counting down towards 0
-  const shouldAnimate = isRunning && current !== null && current > 0 && duration !== null;
+  const hasAuthoritativeUpdate =
+    baseline.current.current !== current || // handle timer updates
+    baseline.current.duration !== duration || // handle duration changes
+    baseline.current.eventId !== eventId || // handle event changing
+    baseline.current.playback !== playback; // handle playback changes

-  // re-anchor to the authoritative value whenever the server pushes a new timer update
-  useEffect(() => {
-    baseline.current = { current, at: performance.now() };
-  }, [current, duration, playback]);
+  if (hasAuthoritativeUpdate) {
+    // Reset during render so an event change is reflected in this very paint.
+    baseline.current = { current, duration, eventId, playback, at: now };
+  }
+
+  // There is only something to animate while a connected timer is counting down towards 0.
+  const shouldAnimate = isOnline && isRunning && current !== null && current > 0 && duration !== null;

  // while counting down, re-render every animation frame so the derived progress stays smooth
  useEffect(() => {
@@ -34,8 +42,8 @@ export function useAnimatedProgress(current: MaybeNumber, duration: MaybeNumber)
    return () => cancelAnimationFrame(frame);
  }, [shouldAnimate]);

-  // derive from the anchor plus elapsed time at render; frozen to the anchor when not running
+  // Derive from the anchor plus elapsed time at render; freeze while disconnected or not running.
  const anchored = baseline.current.current;
-  const value = isRunning && anchored !== null ? anchored - (performance.now() - baseline.current.at) : anchored;
+  const value = isOnline && isRunning && anchored !== null ? anchored - (now - baseline.current.at) : anchored;
  return getProgress(value, duration);
 }
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import {
  requestEventSwap,
  requestGroupEntries,
  requestUngroup,
+  requestFitGroupTarget,
 } from '../api/rundown';
 import { logAxiosError } from '../api/utils';
 import { useEditorSettings } from '../stores/editorSettings';
@@ -466,7 +467,27 @@ function useEntryActionsForRundown(scopedRundownId: string | undefined) {
        return previousEnd;
      }
    },
-    [getCurrentRundownData, updateEntryMutation, queryClient],
+    [getCurrentRundownData, updateEntryMutation, queryClient, resolveCurrentRundownQueryKey],
+  );
+
+  /**
+   * Updates time of existing event so it satisfies the group target duration
+   * @param eventId {EntryId} - id of the event
+   */
+  const matchGroupDuration = useCallback(
+    async (eventId: EntryId) => {
+      const rundownId = getCurrentRundownData()?.id;
+      if (!rundownId) {
+        throw new Error('Rundown not initialised');
+      }
+
+      try {
+        await requestFitGroupTarget(rundownId, eventId);
+      } catch (error) {
+        logAxiosError('Error updating event', error);
+      }
+    },
+    [getCurrentRundownData],
  );

  /**
@@ -1009,6 +1030,7 @@ function useEntryActionsForRundown(scopedRundownId: string | undefined) {
      swapEvents,
      updateEntry,
      updateTimer,
+      matchGroupDuration,
    }),
    [
      addEntry,
@@ -1026,6 +1048,7 @@ function useEntryActionsForRundown(scopedRundownId: string | undefined) {
      swapEvents,
      updateEntry,
      updateTimer,
+      matchGroupDuration,
    ],
  );
 }
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ import { MaybeString } from 'ontime-types';
 import { RefObject, useCallback, useEffect } from 'react';

 function scrollToComponent<ComponentRef extends HTMLElement, ScrollRef extends HTMLElement>(
-  componentRef: RefObject<ComponentRef>,
-  scrollRef: RefObject<ScrollRef>,
+  componentRef: RefObject<ComponentRef | null>,
+  scrollRef: RefObject<ScrollRef | null>,
  topOffset: number,
 ) {
  if (!componentRef.current || !scrollRef.current) {
@@ -21,18 +21,16 @@ interface UseFollowComponentProps {
  followRef: RefObject<HTMLElement | null>;
  scrollRef: RefObject<HTMLElement | null>;
  doFollow: boolean;
-  topOffset?: number;
-  setScrollFlag?: (newValue: boolean) => void;
-  followTrigger?: MaybeString; // this would be an entry id or null
+  followTrigger: MaybeString; // this would be an entry id or null
+  getTopOffset: () => number;
 }

 export default function useFollowComponent({
  followRef,
  scrollRef,
  doFollow,
-  topOffset = 100,
-  setScrollFlag,
  followTrigger,
+  getTopOffset,
 }: UseFollowComponentProps) {
  // when trigger moves, view should follow
  useEffect(() => {
@@ -41,25 +39,17 @@ export default function useFollowComponent({
    }

    if (followRef.current && scrollRef.current) {
-      setScrollFlag?.(true);
      // Use requestAnimationFrame to ensure the component is fully loaded
      window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
-        scrollToComponent(followRef as RefObject<HTMLElement>, scrollRef as RefObject<HTMLElement>, topOffset);
-        setScrollFlag?.(false);
+        // resolve the offset after layout, so that measured values are up to date
+        scrollToComponent(followRef, scrollRef, getTopOffset());
      });
    }
-  }, [followTrigger, doFollow, followRef, scrollRef, setScrollFlag, topOffset]);
+  }, [followTrigger, doFollow, followRef, scrollRef, getTopOffset]);

-  const scrollToRefComponent = useCallback(
-    (componentRef = followRef, containerRef = scrollRef, offset = topOffset) => {
-      if (componentRef && containerRef) {
-        // @ts-expect-error -- we know this are not null
-        // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion
-        scrollToComponent(componentRef!, containerRef!, offset);
-      }
-    },
-    [followRef, scrollRef, topOffset],
-  );
+  const scrollToRefComponent = useCallback(() => {
+    scrollToComponent(followRef, scrollRef, getTopOffset());
+  }, [followRef, scrollRef, getTopOffset]);

  return scrollToRefComponent;
 }
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ export const useNextFlag = createSelector((state: RuntimeStore) => ({
 export const useProgressData = createSelector((state: RuntimeStore) => ({
  current: state.timer.current,
  duration: state.timer.duration,
+  eventId: state.eventNow?.id ?? null,
  timeWarning: state.eventNow?.timeWarning ?? null,
  timeDanger: state.eventNow?.timeDanger ?? null,
 }));
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ import { useEffect } from 'react';
 */
 export function useWindowTitle(title: string) {
  useEffect(() => {
-    document.title = `ontime - ${title}`;
+    document.title = `Ontime - ${title}`;
  }, []);
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import type { AutomationOutput } from 'ontime-types';
+
+import { summariseOutputs } from '../automationOutputs';
+
+describe('summariseOutputs', () => {
+  it('returns an empty list when there are no outputs', () => {
+    expect(summariseOutputs([])).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('counts repeated output kinds', () => {
+    const outputs: AutomationOutput[] = [
+      { type: 'osc', targetIP: '127.0.0.1', targetPort: 8000, address: '/go', args: '' },
+      { type: 'osc', targetIP: '127.0.0.1', targetPort: 8000, address: '/stop', args: '' },
+      { type: 'http', url: 'http://127.0.0.1/start' },
+    ];
+
+    expect(summariseOutputs(outputs)).toEqual([
+      { type: 'osc', label: 'OSC', count: 2 },
+      { type: 'http', label: 'HTTP', count: 1 },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('presents kinds in a stable order regardless of insertion order', () => {
+    const outputs: AutomationOutput[] = [
+      { type: 'ontime', action: 'aux1-start' },
+      { type: 'http', url: 'http://127.0.0.1/start' },
+      { type: 'osc', targetIP: '127.0.0.1', targetPort: 8000, address: '/go', args: '' },
+    ];
+
+    expect(summariseOutputs(outputs).map(({ type }) => type)).toEqual(['osc', 'http', 'ontime']);
+  });
+});
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import type { OntimeEventReport } from 'ontime-types';
+import { dayInMs, MILLIS_PER_MINUTE } from 'ontime-utils';
+
+import { getEventVariance } from '../report';
+
+it('uses captured days when measuring an event across midnight', () => {
+  const report: OntimeEventReport = {
+    startedAt: dayInMs - 5 * MILLIS_PER_MINUTE,
+    startedAtDay: 0,
+    endedAt: 5 * MILLIS_PER_MINUTE,
+    endedAtDay: 1,
+    scheduledStart: dayInMs - 5 * MILLIS_PER_MINUTE,
+    scheduledDay: 0,
+    scheduledDuration: 10 * MILLIS_PER_MINUTE,
+  };
+
+  expect(getEventVariance(report)).toMatchObject({
+    actualDuration: 10 * MILLIS_PER_MINUTE,
+    delta: 0,
+    status: 'ontime',
+  });
+  expect(getEventVariance({ ...report, endedAt: null })).toMatchObject({ status: 'not-run' });
+});
@@ -58,4 +58,16 @@ describe('formatDuration()', () => {
    expect(formatDuration(2 * MILLIS_PER_HOUR + 6 * MILLIS_PER_MINUTE + 45 * MILLIS_PER_SECOND, false)).toBe('2h6m45s');
    expect(formatDuration(599702, false)).toBe('9m59s');
  });
+  it('formats durations differently with and without seconds', () => {
+    expect(formatDuration(0, false)).toBe('0m');
+    expect(formatDuration(0, true)).toBe('0m');
+    expect(formatDuration(30 * MILLIS_PER_SECOND, false)).toBe('30s');
+    expect(formatDuration(30 * MILLIS_PER_SECOND, true)).toBe('');
+    expect(formatDuration(2 * MILLIS_PER_HOUR + 30 * MILLIS_PER_SECOND, false)).toBe('2h30s');
+    expect(formatDuration(2 * MILLIS_PER_HOUR + 30 * MILLIS_PER_SECOND, true)).toBe('2h');
+    expect(formatDuration(2 * MILLIS_PER_HOUR + 10 * MILLIS_PER_MINUTE + 30 * MILLIS_PER_SECOND, false)).toBe(
+      '2h10m30s',
+    );
+    expect(formatDuration(2 * MILLIS_PER_HOUR + 10 * MILLIS_PER_MINUTE + 30 * MILLIS_PER_SECOND, true)).toBe('2h10m');
+  });
 });
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import type { AutomationOutput } from 'ontime-types';
+
+const outputLabels: Record<AutomationOutput['type'], string> = {
+  osc: 'OSC',
+  http: 'HTTP',
+  ontime: 'Ontime',
+};
+
+export type OutputSummary = {
+  type: AutomationOutput['type'];
+  label: string;
+  count: number;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Summarises an automation's outputs by kind so that a list row can say what the
+ * automation does without the user having to open the form.
+ * Shared between the automation settings panel and the rundown event editor.
+ */
+export function summariseOutputs(outputs: AutomationOutput[]): OutputSummary[] {
+  const counts = new Map<AutomationOutput['type'], number>();
+
+  for (const output of outputs) {
+    counts.set(output.type, (counts.get(output.type) ?? 0) + 1);
+  }
+
+  // keep a stable presentation order regardless of the order the user added outputs
+  const order: AutomationOutput['type'][] = ['osc', 'http', 'ontime'];
+  return order
+    .filter((type) => counts.has(type))
+    .map((type) => ({ type, label: outputLabels[type], count: counts.get(type) as number }));
+}
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ export function isKeyEnter<T>(event: KeyboardEvent<T>): boolean {
  return event.key === 'Enter';
 }

+export function isKeySpace<T>(event: KeyboardEvent<T>): boolean {
+  return event.key === ' ' || event.code === 'Space';
+}
+
 export function isKeyEscape<T>(event: KeyboardEvent<T>): boolean {
  return event.key === 'Escape';
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import type { MaybeNumber, OntimeEventReport } from 'ontime-types';
+import { dayInMs, MILLIS_PER_SECOND } from 'ontime-utils';
+
+type EventVariance = {
+  actualDuration: MaybeNumber;
+  delta: number;
+  status: 'ontime' | 'over' | 'under' | 'not-run';
+};
+
+const notRun: EventVariance = { actualDuration: null, delta: 0, status: 'not-run' };
+
+export function getReportTimePosition(time: number, day: number): number;
+export function getReportTimePosition(time: MaybeNumber, day: number | null): MaybeNumber;
+export function getReportTimePosition(time: MaybeNumber, day: number | null): MaybeNumber {
+  return time === null || day === null ? null : day * dayInMs + time;
+}
+
+export function getEventVariance(entry: OntimeEventReport | undefined): EventVariance {
+  if (!entry) return notRun;
+
+  const start = getReportTimePosition(entry.startedAt, entry.startedAtDay);
+  const end = getReportTimePosition(entry.endedAt, entry.endedAtDay);
+  if (start === null || end === null) return notRun;
+
+  const actualDuration = end - start;
+  const delta = actualDuration - entry.scheduledDuration;
+  if (Math.abs(delta) < MILLIS_PER_SECOND) return { actualDuration, delta, status: 'ontime' };
+  return { actualDuration, delta, status: delta > 0 ? 'over' : 'under' };
+}
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import { AppMode } from '../ontimeConfig';
-
 declare module '*.scss' {
  const content: Record<string, string>;
  export default content;
@@ -32,39 +30,6 @@ declare global {
  }
 }

-/**
- * Declare custom data we pass to the table
- * - `handleUpdate` callback to update the entry when the user edits a cell
- * - `handleUpdateTimer` callback to update the timer for a specific event
- * - `options-showDelayedTimes` whether to show or hide delayed times
- * - `options-hideTableSeconds` whether to hide seconds in the table
- * - `options-hideIndexColumn` whether to hide the index column
- * - `options-cuesheetMode` run or edit mode
- *
- * And metadata specific for each column
- * - `canWrite` whether the user can write to this column
- * - `colour` background colour associated with a custom field
- */
-declare module '@tanstack/react-table' {
-  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
-  interface TableMeta<TData extends RowData> {
-    handleUpdate: (rowIndex: number, accessor: string, payload: string, isCustom: boolean) => void;
-    handleUpdateTimer: (eventId: string, field: TimeField, payload: string) => void;
-    options: {
-      showDelayedTimes: boolean;
-      hideTableSeconds: boolean;
-      hideIndexColumn: boolean;
-      cuesheetMode: AppMode;
-    };
-  }
-
-  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
-  interface ColumnMeta<TData extends RowData, TValue> {
-    canWrite: boolean;
-    colour?: string;
-  }
-}
-
 /**
 * Allow passing CSS Properties
 */
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import { matchesSettingsOptionQuery } from '../useAppSettingsMenu';
+
+describe('matchesSettingsOptionQuery', () => {
+  const option = {
+    id: 'settings__general',
+    label: 'General settings',
+    keywords: ['pin', 'time zone'],
+  };
+
+  it('does not match an empty or whitespace-only query', () => {
+    expect(matchesSettingsOptionQuery(option, '')).toBe(false);
+    expect(matchesSettingsOptionQuery(option, '   ')).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('matches keywords case-insensitively', () => {
+    expect(matchesSettingsOptionQuery(option, 'PIN')).toBe(true);
+    expect(matchesSettingsOptionQuery(option, 'TIME ZONE')).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
-.corner {
-  position: fixed;
-  top: 6rem;
-  right: 4rem;
-  z-index: $zindex-floating;
-}
+$content-max-width: 1280px;

 .contentWrapper {
  display: flex;
@@ -14,9 +9,29 @@
  position: relative;
 }

+.corner {
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+  display: flex;
+  justify-content: flex-end;
+  // width is needed so the button can align to the right of the capped
+  // column, auto margins alone would shrink this to fit and centre it
+  width: 100%;
+  max-width: $content-max-width;
+  margin-inline: auto;
+  padding: 0 1rem 0.5rem;
+  box-sizing: border-box;
+}
+
 .content {
-  margin: 1rem;
+  box-sizing: border-box;
+  // as with .corner, the width is needed to fill the capped column, otherwise
+  // auto margins shrink this to fit and each panel ends up its own width
+  width: 100%;
+  max-width: $content-max-width;
+  margin: 0 auto 1rem;
+  padding-inline: 1rem;
  overflow-y: auto;
  flex-grow: 1;
-  padding-bottom: 300px;
+  // room for the last section to scroll to the top of the viewport
+  padding-bottom: 40vh;
 }
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ interface PanelContentProps {
 export default function PanelContent({ onClose, children }: PropsWithChildren<PanelContentProps>) {
  return (
    <div className={style.contentWrapper}>
-      <div className={style.content}>{children}</div>
      <div className={style.corner}>
        <Button size='large' onClick={onClose}>
          Close settings <IoClose />
        </Button>
      </div>
+      <div className={style.content}>{children}</div>
    </div>
  );
 }
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+.container {
+  width: min(30vw, 300px);
+  flex: 0 0 min(30vw, 300px);
+  min-width: min(30vw, 300px);
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 0.75rem;
+  overflow-y: auto;
+}
+
 .tabs,
 ul {
  list-style: none;
@@ -6,22 +16,20 @@ ul {
 }

 .tabs {
-  width: min(30vw, 300px);
-  flex: 0 0 min(30vw, 300px);
-  min-width: min(30vw, 300px);
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
-  overflow-y: auto;
 }

 .primary,
 .secondary {
  padding: 0.25rem 1rem;
  margin-right: 1rem;
+  border-radius: 2px;

-  &:focus {
+  &:focus-visible {
    background-color: $gray-1000;
-    outline: 0;
+    outline: 2px solid $blue-500;
+    outline-offset: -2px;
  }

  &:hover {
@@ -32,14 +40,21 @@ ul {

 .primary {
  font-size: 1rem;
-  border-radius: 2px;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 0.5rem;
+  border-left: 3px solid transparent;
+
+  &.groupActive {
+    color: $blue-400;
+    font-weight: 600;
+  }

  &.active {
-    color: $blue-400;
-    background-color: $gray-1100;
+    color: $ui-white;
+    border-left-color: $blue-400;
+    background-color: $bg-active;
+    font-weight: 600;
  }

  &.highlight {
@@ -62,6 +77,9 @@ ul {
  font-size: $inner-section-text-size;

  &.active {
-    color: $blue-400;
+    color: $ui-white;
+    border-left-color: $blue-400;
+    background-color: $bg-active;
+    font-weight: 600;
  }
 }
@@ -1,10 +1,18 @@
-import { Fragment } from 'react';
+import { Fragment, useState } from 'react';

 import Tooltip from '../../../common/components/tooltip/Tooltip';
 import { isKeyEnter } from '../../../common/utils/keyEvent';
 import { cx } from '../../../common/utils/styleUtils';
-import { SettingsOption, SettingsOptionId, useAppSettingsMenu } from '../useAppSettingsMenu';
+import * as Panel from '../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+import {
+  filterSettingsOptions,
+  matchesSettingsOptionQuery,
+  SettingsOption,
+  SettingsOptionId,
+  useAppSettingsMenu,
+} from '../useAppSettingsMenu';
 import useAppSettingsNavigation from '../useAppSettingsNavigation';
+import SettingsSearch from './SettingsSearch';

 import style from './PanelList.module.scss';

@@ -16,23 +24,57 @@ interface PanelListProps extends PanelBaseProps {
  selectedPanel: string;
 }

+/** Returns the first matching setting, preferring a matching child over its non-matching group. */
+function getFirstResultId(results: SettingsOption[], query: string): SettingsOptionId | null {
+  const firstResult = results[0];
+  if (!firstResult) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  if (matchesSettingsOptionQuery(firstResult, query.trim().toLowerCase())) {
+    return firstResult.id as SettingsOptionId;
+  }
+
+  return (firstResult.secondary?.[0]?.id as SettingsOptionId | undefined) ?? null;
+}
+
 export default function PanelList({ selectedPanel, location }: PanelListProps) {
  const { options } = useAppSettingsMenu();
+  const { setLocation } = useAppSettingsNavigation();
+  const [query, setQuery] = useState('');
+
+  const results = filterSettingsOptions(options, query);
+
+  const handleSearchSubmit = () => {
+    const target = getFirstResultId(results, query);
+    if (target) {
+      setLocation(target);
+      setQuery('');
+    }
+  };

  return (
-    <ul className={style.tabs}>
-      {options.map((panel) => {
-        const isSelected = selectedPanel === panel.id;
-        if (panel.highlight) {
-          return (
-            <Tooltip key={panel.id} text={panel.highlight} render={<span />}>
-              <PanelListItem panel={panel} location={location} isSelected={isSelected} />
-            </Tooltip>
-          );
-        }
-        return <PanelListItem key={panel.id} panel={panel} location={location} isSelected={isSelected} />;
-      })}
-    </ul>
+    <div className={style.container}>
+      <SettingsSearch query={query} onQueryChange={setQuery} onSubmit={handleSearchSubmit} />
+
+      {results.length === 0 ? (
+        <Panel.EmptyState title='No settings match' description={`Nothing found for "${query.trim()}"`} />
+      ) : (
+        <ul className={style.tabs}>
+          {results.map((panel) => {
+            const isSelected = selectedPanel === panel.id;
+            if (panel.highlight) {
+              return (
+                <Tooltip key={panel.id} text={panel.highlight} render={<span />}>
+                  <PanelListItem panel={panel} location={location} isSelected={isSelected} />
+                </Tooltip>
+              );
+            }
+            return <PanelListItem key={panel.id} panel={panel} location={location} isSelected={isSelected} />;
+          })}
+        </ul>
+      )}
+    </div>
  );
 }

@@ -44,7 +86,15 @@ interface PanelListItemProps {

 function PanelListItem({ panel, isSelected, location }: PanelListItemProps) {
  const { setLocation } = useAppSettingsNavigation();
-  const classes = cx([style.primary, isSelected && style.active, panel.highlight && style.highlight]);
+  const hasSelectedChild = Boolean(
+    isSelected && panel.secondary?.some((secondary) => secondary.id.split('__')[1] === location),
+  );
+  const classes = cx([
+    style.primary,
+    isSelected && !hasSelectedChild && style.active,
+    hasSelectedChild && style.groupActive,
+    panel.highlight && style.highlight,
+  ]);

  return (
    <Fragment key={panel.id}>
@@ -75,6 +125,7 @@ function PanelListItem({ panel, isSelected, location }: PanelListItemProps) {
              }
            }}
            className={secondaryClasses}
+            tabIndex={0}
            role='button'
          >
            {secondary.label}
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+.search {
+  position: relative;
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+  margin: 0.25rem 1rem 0.25rem 0.25rem;
+}
+
+.icon {
+  position: absolute;
+  left: 0.5rem;
+  color: $gray-400;
+  pointer-events: none;
+}
+
+.input {
+  padding-left: 2rem;
+  padding-right: 2rem;
+}
+
+.clear {
+  position: absolute;
+  right: 0.25rem;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+import { KeyboardEvent, useRef } from 'react';
+import { IoClose, IoSearch } from 'react-icons/io5';
+
+import IconButton from '../../../common/components/buttons/IconButton';
+import Input from '../../../common/components/input/input/Input';
+
+import style from './SettingsSearch.module.scss';
+
+interface SettingsSearchProps {
+  query: string;
+  onQueryChange: (query: string) => void;
+  onSubmit: () => void;
+}
+
+export default function SettingsSearch({ query, onQueryChange, onSubmit }: SettingsSearchProps) {
+  const searchRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null);
+  const isSearching = query.trim().length > 0;
+
+  const handleKeyDown = (event: KeyboardEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
+    if (event.key === 'Escape' && isSearching) {
+      // Do not let the settings panel close while the user is clearing a search.
+      event.stopPropagation();
+      onQueryChange('');
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (event.key === 'Enter') {
+      onSubmit();
+    }
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <div className={style.search}>
+      <IoSearch className={style.icon} />
+      <Input
+        ref={searchRef}
+        value={query}
+        onChange={(event) => onQueryChange(event.target.value)}
+        onKeyDown={handleKeyDown}
+        placeholder='Search settings'
+        className={style.input}
+        fluid
+      />
+      {isSearching && (
+        <IconButton
+          variant='ghosted-white'
+          size='small'
+          aria-label='Clear search'
+          className={style.clear}
+          onClick={() => {
+            onQueryChange('');
+            searchRef.current?.focus();
+          }}
+        >
+          <IoClose />
+        </IconButton>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}
@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@
 $inner-padding: 1rem;
+$card-padding: 2rem;

 .header {
-  font-size: 2rem;
+  font-size: 1.5rem;
  padding-bottom: 0.5rem;
  border-bottom: 1px solid $white-10;
  font-weight: 600;
 }

 .subheader {
-  font-size: 1.5rem;
+  font-size: 1.125rem;
  padding-bottom: 0.5rem;
  font-weight: 600;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
+  gap: 1rem;
 }

 .title {
-  font-size: 1.375rem;
-  padding: 0 2rem;
+  font-size: 1rem;
+  padding: 0 var(--panel-card-padding, #{$card-padding});
  font-weight: 600;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
@@ -35,10 +37,12 @@ $inner-padding: 1rem;
  color: $ui-white;
 }

+// width is owned by the panel content column, which caps and centres itself.
+// sections must stay full width so top level cards line up with Panel.Header
+// and nested sections fill their card rather than shrinking to fit
 .section {
  position: relative;
  margin-top: 2rem;
-  max-width: 1024px;
 }

 .indent {
@@ -51,8 +55,10 @@ $inner-padding: 1rem;
 }

 .card {
+  --panel-card-padding: #{$card-padding};
+
  position: relative;
-  padding: 2rem;
+  padding: var(--panel-card-padding);
  background-color: $white-3;
  border: 1px solid $gray-1100;
  border-radius: 3px;
@@ -76,10 +82,10 @@ $inner-padding: 1rem;
  color: $error-red;
 }

+// tables scroll with the panel rather than owning a nested scroll area,
+// which keeps the sticky table head anchored to the panel viewport
 .pad {
-  padding: 0 2rem;
-  max-height: 550px;
-  overflow-y: scroll;
+  padding: 0 var(--panel-card-padding, #{$card-padding});
 }

 .table {
@@ -97,10 +103,13 @@ $inner-padding: 1rem;
  }

  th {
-    font-weight: 400;
-    color: $gray-400;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    color: $gray-300;
+    font-size: calc(1rem - 3px);
+    letter-spacing: 0.02em;
+    vertical-align: bottom;
    white-space: nowrap;
-    text-transform: capitalize;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
  }

  th,
@@ -112,6 +121,17 @@ $inner-padding: 1rem;
    background-color: $white-1;
  }

+  // active rows use a panel-local class today; keep the treatment here so all
+  // settings tables share the same state without each panel owning its colours
+  tr[class*='current'] {
+    background-color: $bg-active;
+
+    > td:first-child {
+      box-shadow: inset 3px 0 $blue-400;
+      font-weight: 500;
+    }
+  }
+
  // allow highlighting table elements
  tr[data-warn='true'],
  td[data-warn='true'] {
@@ -120,7 +140,7 @@ $inner-padding: 1rem;
 }

 .listGroup {
-  padding: 0 2rem;
+  padding: 0 var(--panel-card-padding, #{$card-padding});

  > li:not(:last-child) {
    border-bottom: 1px solid $white-10;
@@ -133,6 +153,17 @@ $inner-padding: 1rem;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 1rem;
  padding: 0.5rem 0;
+
+  &.interactive {
+    margin-inline: calc(var(--panel-card-padding, #{$card-padding}) * -1);
+    padding: 0.75rem var(--panel-card-padding, #{$card-padding});
+    transition: background-color $transition-time-action;
+
+    &:hover,
+    &:focus-within {
+      background-color: $white-3;
+    }
+  }
 }

 .fieldTitle {
@@ -163,14 +194,13 @@ $inner-padding: 1rem;
 .divider {
  border: none;
  border-top: 1px solid $white-10;
-  margin: 1rem -2rem;
+  margin: 1rem calc(var(--panel-card-padding, #{$card-padding}) * -1);
 }

 .overlay {
  position: absolute;
  z-index: $zindex-backdrop;
-  width: 100%;
-  height: 100%;
+  inset: 0;
  backdrop-filter: blur(2px);
  display: grid;
  place-content: center;
@@ -188,19 +218,35 @@ $inner-padding: 1rem;
  animation: animloader 1s ease-in infinite;
 }

-.empty {
-  background-color: $black-10;
+.emptyState {
+  padding: 3rem 1.5rem;
  text-align: center;
-  color: $muted-gray;
+}

-  td {
-    padding-block: 5rem;
-  }
+.emptyMessage {
+  width: min(30rem, 100%);
+  margin-inline: auto;
+}

-  button {
-    margin-top: 1rem;
-    margin-inline: auto;
-  }
+.emptyTitle {
+  margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
+  color: rgba($gray-200, 0.72);
+  font-size: calc(1rem + 2px);
+  font-weight: 400;
+}
+
+.emptyBody {
+  color: rgba($gray-200, 0.55);
+  font-size: calc(1rem - 3px);
+  line-height: 1.5;
+}
+
+.emptyAction {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: center;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+  margin-top: 1rem;
 }

 .inlineElements {
@@ -239,14 +285,3 @@ $inner-padding: 1rem;
    opacity: 0;
  }
 }
-
-@keyframes animloader {
-  0% {
-    transform: scale(0);
-    opacity: 0.6;
-  }
-  100% {
-    transform: scale(1);
-    opacity: 0;
-  }
-}
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 import { HTMLAttributes, PropsWithChildren, ReactNode } from 'react';
-import { IoAdd } from 'react-icons/io5';

-import Button from '../../../common/components/buttons/Button';
 import { cx } from '../../../common/utils/styleUtils';

 import style from './PanelUtils.module.scss';
@@ -62,16 +60,29 @@ export function Table({ className, children }: { className?: string; children: R
  );
 }

-export function TableEmpty({ label, handleClick }: { label?: string; handleClick?: () => void }) {
+export interface EmptyStateProps {
+  title: string;
+  description?: ReactNode;
+  action?: ReactNode;
+}
+
+export function EmptyState({ title, description, action }: EmptyStateProps) {
  return (
-    <tr className={style.empty}>
+    <div className={style.emptyState}>
+      <div className={style.emptyMessage}>
+        <div className={style.emptyTitle}>{title}</div>
+        {description && <div className={style.emptyBody}>{description}</div>}
+        {action && <div className={style.emptyAction}>{action}</div>}
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+export function TableEmpty(props: EmptyStateProps) {
+  return (
+    <tr>
      <td colSpan={99}>
-        <div>{label ?? 'No data yet'}</div>
-        {handleClick && (
-          <Button onClick={handleClick} disabled={!handleClick} variant='primary'>
-            New <IoAdd />
-          </Button>
-        )}
+        <EmptyState {...props} />
      </td>
    </tr>
  );
@@ -81,8 +92,8 @@ export function ListGroup({ className, children }: { className?: string; childre
  return <ul className={cx([style.listGroup, className])}>{children}</ul>;
 }

-export function ListItem({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
-  return <li className={style.listItem}>{children}</li>;
+export function ListItem({ children, interactive = false }: { children: ReactNode; interactive?: boolean }) {
+  return <li className={cx([style.listItem, interactive && style.interactive])}>{children}</li>;
 }

 export function Field({
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import ExternalLink from '../../../../common/components/link/external-link/ExternalLink';
+import Info from '../../../../common/components/info/Info';
 import {
  buyMeACoffeeUrl,
  discordUrl,
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import {
 } from '../../../../externals';
 import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
 import AppVersion from './AppVersion';
+import CloudPanel from './CloudPanel';
+import ExternalLinkRow from './ExternalLinkRow';

 export default function AboutPanel() {
  return (
@@ -19,28 +21,49 @@ export default function AboutPanel() {
      <Panel.Section>
        <Panel.Card>
          <Panel.SubHeader>Ontime</Panel.SubHeader>
-          <Panel.Paragraph>
-            Free, open-source software for managing rundowns and event timers
-            <ExternalLink href={websiteUrl}>www.getontime.no</ExternalLink>
-          </Panel.Paragraph>
-          <Panel.Paragraph>
-            Considering sponsoring our work
-            <ExternalLink href={githubSponsorUrl}>GitHub Sponsors</ExternalLink>
-            <ExternalLink href={buyMeACoffeeUrl}>Buy Me a Coffee</ExternalLink>
-          </Panel.Paragraph>
-          <Panel.Paragraph>
-            If you are looking for an online version of Ontime, consider trying out our cloud service
-            <ExternalLink href={websiteUrl}>www.getontime.no</ExternalLink>
-          </Panel.Paragraph>
+          <Panel.Divider />
+          <Info>Free, open-source software for managing rundowns and event timers.</Info>
+          <Panel.ListGroup>
+            <ExternalLinkRow href={websiteUrl} title='www.getontime.no' description='App site and downloads' />
+            <ExternalLinkRow
+              href={githubSponsorUrl}
+              title='GitHub Sponsors'
+              description='Support development through GitHub'
+            />
+            <ExternalLinkRow
+              href={buyMeACoffeeUrl}
+              title='Buy Me a Coffee'
+              description='Make a one-time contribution'
+            />
+          </Panel.ListGroup>
+        </Panel.Card>
+      </Panel.Section>
+      <CloudPanel />
+      <Panel.Section>
+        <Panel.Card>
+          <Panel.SubHeader>Current version</Panel.SubHeader>
+          <Panel.Divider />
+          <Panel.ListGroup>
+            <AppVersion />
+          </Panel.ListGroup>
+        </Panel.Card>
+      </Panel.Section>
+      <Panel.Section>
+        <Panel.Card>
+          <Panel.SubHeader>Helpful links</Panel.SubHeader>
+          <Panel.Divider />
+          <Panel.ListGroup>
+            <ExternalLinkRow
+              href={documentationUrl}
+              title='Read the docs'
+              description='Setup guides and feature documentation'
+            />
+            <ExternalLinkRow href={githubUrl} title='GitHub' description='Report issues or contribute to Ontime' />
+            <ExternalLinkRow href={youtubeUrl} title='YouTube' description='Watch tutorials and feature walkthroughs' />
+            <ExternalLinkRow href={discordUrl} title='Discord' description='Get help and share suggestions' />
+            <ExternalLinkRow href={subredditUrl} title='Reddit' description='Join the Ontime community discussion' />
+          </Panel.ListGroup>
        </Panel.Card>
-        <Panel.SubHeader>Current version</Panel.SubHeader>
-        <AppVersion />
-        <Panel.SubHeader>Links</Panel.SubHeader>
-        <ExternalLink href={documentationUrl}>Read the docs</ExternalLink>
-        <ExternalLink href={githubUrl}>Follow the project on GitHub</ExternalLink>
-        <ExternalLink href={discordUrl}>Discord server</ExternalLink>
-        <ExternalLink href={youtubeUrl}>YouTube channel</ExternalLink>
-        <ExternalLink href={subredditUrl}>Subreddit</ExternalLink>
      </Panel.Section>
    </>
  );
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+.updateIndicator {
+  width: 0.5em;
+  height: 0.5em;
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+  border-radius: 99px;
+  background-color: $red-400;
+}
@@ -1,35 +1,47 @@
 import ExternalLink from '../../../../common/components/link/external-link/ExternalLink';
 import useAppVersion from '../../../../common/hooks-query/useAppVersion';
-import { appVersion, isOntimeCloud } from '../../../../externals';
+import { appVersion, isOntimeCloud, websiteUrl } from '../../../../externals';
 import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';

+import style from './AppVersion.module.scss';
+
 export default function AppVersion() {
  const { data, isError } = useAppVersion();

  if (isError) {
    return (
-      <Panel.Paragraph>
-        {`You are currently using Ontime version ${appVersion}`}
-        <Panel.Error>Could not fetch version information</Panel.Error>
-      </Panel.Paragraph>
+      <Panel.ListItem>
+        <Panel.Field title={`Ontime ${appVersion}`} description='' error='Could not fetch version information' />
+      </Panel.ListItem>
    );
  }

  if (data.hasUpdates) {
    return (
-      <Panel.Paragraph>
-        {`You are currently using Ontime version ${appVersion}.`}
-        <br />
-        <br />
-        {`A new version ${data.version} is available.`} <br />
-        {isOntimeCloud ? (
-          'You can restart your stage to get the latest available version.'
-        ) : (
-          <ExternalLink href={data.url}>Please visit the release page to download</ExternalLink>
+      <Panel.ListItem>
+        <Panel.Field
+          title={
+            <>
+              <span className={style.updateIndicator} aria-hidden='true' />
+              {`Ontime ${appVersion}`}
+            </>
+          }
+          description={
+            isOntimeCloud
+              ? `Version ${data.version} is available. Restart your stage to update.`
+              : `Version ${data.version} is available.`
+          }
+        />
+        {!isOntimeCloud && (
+          <ExternalLink href={websiteUrl}>Download the latest version from Ontime's page</ExternalLink>
        )}
-      </Panel.Paragraph>
+      </Panel.ListItem>
    );
  }

-  return <Panel.Paragraph>{`You are currently using the latest version of Ontime: ${appVersion}`}</Panel.Paragraph>;
+  return (
+    <Panel.ListItem>
+      <Panel.Field title={`Ontime ${appVersion}`} description='You are using the latest version.' />
+    </Panel.ListItem>
+  );
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+.card {
+  padding: 1.5rem;
+  border-color: rgba($action-blue, 0.42);
+  background-color: rgba($action-blue, 0.06);
+}
+
+.eyebrow {
+  color: $action-text-color;
+  font-size: calc(1rem - 3px);
+  font-weight: 700;
+  letter-spacing: 0.08em;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+}
+
+.title {
+  margin-top: 0.35rem;
+  font-size: 1.5rem;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  line-height: 1.15;
+}
+
+.description {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 0.75rem;
+  max-width: 33rem;
+  margin-top: 0.9rem;
+  color: $gray-300;
+  line-height: 1.5;
+}
+
+.portability {
+  padding-top: 0.75rem;
+  border-top: 1px solid $white-10;
+  color: $gray-400;
+  font-size: calc(1rem - 2px);
+}
+
+.benefits {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr));
+  gap: 0.75rem 1rem;
+  margin-top: 1.5rem;
+  padding: 0;
+  list-style: none;
+
+  li {
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: flex-start;
+    gap: 0.5rem;
+    line-height: 1.4;
+  }
+
+  svg {
+    flex: 0 0 auto;
+    margin-top: 0.1rem;
+    color: $action-text-color;
+    font-size: 1.1rem;
+  }
+}
+
+.actions {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  gap: 1rem;
+  margin-top: 1.5rem;
+}
+
+@media (max-width: $min-tablet) {
+  .benefits {
+    grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+  }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import { IoCheckmarkCircle } from 'react-icons/io5';
+
+import ExternalLink from '../../../../common/components/link/external-link/ExternalLink';
+import { isOntimeCloud, websiteUrl } from '../../../../externals';
+import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+
+import style from './CloudPanel.module.scss';
+
+export default function CloudPanel() {
+  if (isOntimeCloud) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <Panel.Section>
+      <Panel.Card className={style.card}>
+        <span className={style.eyebrow}>Ontime Cloud</span>
+        <h3 className={style.title}>Run Ontime online with zero setup</h3>
+        <p className={style.description}>
+          <span>
+            Ontime Cloud lets you run and share Ontime online with your team. Subscriptions support continued
+            development while Ontime remains fully open-source and self-hostable.
+          </span>
+          <span className={style.portability}>
+            Project files work locally and in Cloud, so your shows can move freely.
+          </span>
+        </p>
+        <ul className={style.benefits}>
+          <li>
+            <IoCheckmarkCircle />
+            Start in minutes, with no setup or maintenance
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            <IoCheckmarkCircle />
+            Coordinate multi-track rundowns with Overview views
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            <IoCheckmarkCircle />
+            Manage every instance from one dashboard
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            <IoCheckmarkCircle />
+            Share secure read-only views with collaborators
+          </li>
+        </ul>
+        <div className={style.actions}>
+          <ExternalLink href={websiteUrl}>Learn more about Ontime Cloud</ExternalLink>
+        </div>
+      </Panel.Card>
+    </Panel.Section>
+  );
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+.link {
+  width: calc(100% + (var(--panel-card-padding, 2rem) * 2));
+  margin: -0.75rem calc(var(--panel-card-padding, 2rem) * -1);
+  padding: 0.75rem var(--panel-card-padding, 2rem);
+
+  > :first-child {
+    flex: 1;
+    min-width: 0;
+  }
+}
+
+.action {
+  color: $action-text-color;
+  font-size: calc(1rem - 2px);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import ExternalLink from '../../../../common/components/link/external-link/ExternalLink';
+import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+
+import style from './ExternalLinkRow.module.scss';
+
+interface ExternalLinkRowProps {
+  href: string;
+  title: string;
+  description: string;
+}
+
+export default function ExternalLinkRow({ href, title, description }: ExternalLinkRowProps) {
+  return (
+    <Panel.ListItem interactive>
+      <ExternalLink href={href} className={style.link}>
+        <Panel.Field title={title} description={description} />
+        <span className={style.action}>Open</span>
+      </ExternalLink>
+    </Panel.ListItem>
+  );
+}
@@ -1,6 +1,27 @@
+/**
+ * The wide modal body does not scroll, so the form owns it.
+ * Without this the form is simply clipped: four outputs is enough to put Save out of reach.
+ */
+.form {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  flex: 1;
+  min-height: 0;
+}
+
+.formScroll {
+  height: 100%;
+}
+
 .outerColumn {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
  gap: 2rem;
-  margin-bottom: 2rem;
+  font-size: calc(1rem - 1px);
+  color: $ui-white;
+  padding-block: 0.5rem;
+  // leaves the overlay scrollbar somewhere to sit without covering a field
+  padding-right: 0.5rem;

  h3 {
    font-size: 1rem;
@@ -19,61 +40,84 @@
  gap: 1rem;
 }

-.titleSection,
-.filterSection,
-.oscSection,
-.httpSection,
-.actionSection {
+.titleSection {
  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: 1fr;
  grid-gap: 0.5rem;
-
-  button {
-    align-self: flex-end;
-  }
 }

 .titleSection,
 .ruleSection,
-.filterSection,
-.oscSection,
-.httpSection,
-.actionSection {
-  label,
-  div {
-    // we use the div as non-interactive placeholder for button cells
-    // it needs to match the size of the label element
-    font-size: calc(1rem - 3px);
-  }
+.card {
  label {
+    display: block;
+    font-size: calc(1rem - 3px);
    color: $label-gray;
  }
 }

-.titleSection {
-  grid-template-columns: 1fr;
-}
-
-.filterSection {
-  grid-template-columns: 2fr 1fr 2fr auto;
-}
-
-.oscSection {
-  grid-template-columns: 9rem 5rem 3fr 4fr auto;
-}
-
-.httpSection {
-  grid-template-columns: 1fr auto;
-}
-
-.actionSection {
-  grid-template-columns: auto 1fr 1fr auto;
-
-  .test {
-    grid-column: -1;
-  }
-}
-
-.outputCard {
+/** shared shell for a single filter or output */
+.card {
+  border: 1px solid $white-10;
  border-left: 0.25rem solid $gray-1200;
-  padding-left: 0.5rem;
+  border-radius: $component-border-radius-md;
+  background-color: $black-10;
+}
+
+.cardHeader {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+  padding: 0.5rem 0.75rem;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid $white-10;
+}
+
+/** pushes the actions to the end of the header, and absorbs any overflow */
+.cardSummary {
+  flex: 1;
+  min-width: 0;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  text-overflow: ellipsis;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  font-size: $aux-text-size;
+  color: $secondary-text-gray;
+}
+
+.cardBody {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(11rem, 1fr));
+  gap: 0.5rem 0.75rem;
+  padding: 0.75rem;
+}
+
+/** for fields that read badly when narrow: OSC address and args, URLs, message text */
+.spanFull {
+  grid-column: 1 / -1;
+}
+
+.testOk {
+  display: inline-flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.25rem;
+  font-size: $aux-text-size;
+  color: $green-400;
+}
+
+.testError {
+  padding: 0 0.75rem 0.5rem;
+}
+
+.tagOsc {
+  background-color: $blue-1000;
+  color: $blue-300;
+}
+
+.tagHttp {
+  background-color: $green-1000;
+  color: $green-300;
+}
+
+.tagOntime {
+  background-color: $gray-1000;
+  color: $gray-200;
 }
@@ -1,51 +1,109 @@
 import {
  Automation,
  AutomationDTO,
-  HTTPOutput,
-  OSCOutput,
-  OntimeAction,
+  AutomationFilter,
+  TimerLifeCycle,
+  Trigger,
  isHTTPOutput,
  isOSCOutput,
  isOntimeAction,
 } from 'ontime-types';
-import { useEffect, useMemo } from 'react';
+import { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react';
 import { useFieldArray, useForm } from 'react-hook-form';
 import { IoAdd, IoTrash } from 'react-icons/io5';

-import { addAutomation, editAutomation, testOutput } from '../../../../common/api/automation';
+import {
+  addAutomation,
+  addTrigger,
+  deleteTrigger,
+  editAutomation,
+  testOutput,
+} from '../../../../common/api/automation';
 import { maybeAxiosError } from '../../../../common/api/utils';
 import Button from '../../../../common/components/buttons/Button';
 import IconButton from '../../../../common/components/buttons/IconButton';
+import { DropdownMenu } from '../../../../common/components/dropdown-menu/DropdownMenu';
 import Info from '../../../../common/components/info/Info';
 import Input from '../../../../common/components/input/input/Input';
 import ExternalLink from '../../../../common/components/link/external-link/ExternalLink';
+import Modal from '../../../../common/components/modal/Modal';
 import RadioGroup from '../../../../common/components/radio-group/RadioGroup';
+import ScrollArea from '../../../../common/components/scroll-area/ScrollArea';
 import Select from '../../../../common/components/select/Select';
 import Tag from '../../../../common/components/tag/Tag';
 import useAutomationSettings from '../../../../common/hooks-query/useAutomationSettings';
 import useCustomFields from '../../../../common/hooks-query/useCustomFields';
-import { preventEscape } from '../../../../common/utils/keyEvent';
-import { startsWithHttp } from '../../../../common/utils/regex';
 import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
-import { isAutomation, makeFieldList } from './automationUtils';
+import { cycles, isAutomation, makeFieldList, makeTriggerTitle, operators, type OutputErrors } from './automationUtils';
+import HttpOutputForm from './HttpOutputForm';
 import OntimeActionForm from './OntimeActionForm';
-import TemplateInput from './template-input/TemplateInput';
+import OscOutputForm from './OscOutputForm';
+import OutputCard, { type TestState } from './OutputCard';

 import style from './AutomationForm.module.scss';

 const integrationsDocsUrl = 'https://docs.getontime.no/api/automation/#using-variables-in-automation';
+const formId = 'automation-form';
+
+/** how long a successful test keeps its confirmation on screen */
+const testFeedbackDuration = 2000;
+
+/** lifecycles that fire continuously, and are worth a warning before a user picks one */
+const continuousCycles: TimerLifeCycle[] = [TimerLifeCycle.onClock, TimerLifeCycle.onUpdate];

 interface AutomationFormProps {
  automation: Automation | AutomationDTO;
+  /** global triggers, used to resolve which lifecycles this automation is currently bound to */
+  triggers: Trigger[];
  onClose: () => void;
 }

-export default function AutomationForm({ automation, onClose }: AutomationFormProps) {
+export default function AutomationForm({ automation, triggers, onClose }: AutomationFormProps) {
  const isEdit = isAutomation(automation);
  const { data } = useCustomFields();
  const { refetch } = useAutomationSettings();
  const fieldList = useMemo(() => makeFieldList(data), [data]);

+  /**
+   * Triggers are a separate entity, so they live outside the form state.
+   *
+   * We snapshot the automation's triggers when the form opens and reconcile against that
+   * snapshot, never against the live prop: settings are polled, so a trigger created
+   * elsewhere while this form is open must not be deleted by a save that never saw it.
+   */
+  const [initialTriggers] = useState<Trigger[]>(() =>
+    isAutomation(automation) ? triggers.filter((trigger) => trigger.automationId === automation.id) : [],
+  );
+  const initialCycles = useMemo(
+    () => Array.from(new Set(initialTriggers.map((trigger) => trigger.trigger))),
+    [initialTriggers],
+  );
+  const [selectedCycles, setSelectedCycles] = useState<TimerLifeCycle[]>(initialCycles);
+  /** set once a create succeeds, so a retry after a failed trigger sync edits instead of creating a duplicate */
+  const [createdId, setCreatedId] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  const cyclesAreDirty =
+    selectedCycles.length !== initialCycles.length ||
+    selectedCycles.some((cycle) => !initialCycles.includes(cycle)) ||
+    initialCycles.some((cycle) => !selectedCycles.includes(cycle));
+
+  const toggleCycle = (cycle: TimerLifeCycle) => {
+    setSelectedCycles((prev) => (prev.includes(cycle) ? prev.filter((c) => c !== cycle) : [...prev, cycle]));
+  };
+
+  /**
+   * A lifecycle can carry several differently named triggers, which the chips collapse into one.
+   * Unchecking it removes all of them, so say which ones rather than deleting them quietly.
+   */
+  const triggersToRemove = initialTriggers.filter((trigger) => !selectedCycles.includes(trigger.trigger));
+
+  /**
+   * Test results are keyed by the field array id rather than the index:
+   * removing an output shifts every index after it, which would leave feedback on the wrong row
+   */
+  const [testResults, setTestResults] = useState<Record<string, TestState>>({});
+  const feedbackTimers = useRef<Record<string, ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>>>({});
+
  const {
    control,
    handleSubmit,
@@ -92,6 +150,28 @@ export default function AutomationForm({ automation, onClose }: AutomationFormPr
    setFocus('title');
  }, [setFocus]);

+  // the timers outlive a fast close, clearing them avoids setting state on an unmounted form
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const timers = feedbackTimers.current;
+    return () => Object.values(timers).forEach(clearTimeout);
+  }, []);
+
+  const reportTest = (key: string, state: TestState) => {
+    setTestResults((prev) => ({ ...prev, [key]: state }));
+    clearTimeout(feedbackTimers.current[key]);
+
+    if (state.status === 'ok') {
+      feedbackTimers.current[key] = setTimeout(() => {
+        setTestResults((prev) => {
+          const { [key]: _discarded, ...rest } = prev;
+          return rest;
+        });
+      }, testFeedbackDuration);
+    }
+  };
+
+  const getOutputErrors = (index: number) => errors.outputs?.[index] as OutputErrors | undefined;
+
  const handleAddNewFilter = () => {
    appendFilter({ field: '', operator: 'equals', value: '' });
  };
@@ -109,367 +189,350 @@ export default function AutomationForm({ automation, onClose }: AutomationFormPr
    appendOutput({ type: 'ontime', action: 'aux1-start' });
  };

-  const handleTestOSCOutput = async (index: number) => {
+  /**
+   * Sends a single output as configured, without saving the automation.
+   * OSC is fire and forget over UDP, so the most we can honestly claim is that we sent it.
+   */
+  const handleTest = async (index: number, key: string) => {
+    const values = getValues(`outputs.${index}`);
+
+    if (isOSCOutput(values) && (!values.targetIP || !values.targetPort || !values.address)) {
+      reportTest(key, { status: 'error', message: 'Fill in the target and address before testing' });
+      return;
+    }
+    if (isHTTPOutput(values) && !values.url) {
+      reportTest(key, { status: 'error', message: 'Add a target URL before testing' });
+      return;
+    }
+
+    reportTest(key, { status: 'sending' });
    try {
-      const values = getValues(`outputs.${index}`) as OSCOutput;
-      if (!values.targetIP || !values.targetPort || !values.address) {
-        return;
-      }
-      await testOutput({
-        type: 'osc',
-        targetIP: values.targetIP,
-        targetPort: values.targetPort,
-        address: values.address,
-        args: values.args,
-      });
-    } catch (_error) {
-      /** we dont handle errors here, users should use the network tab */
+      // NOTE: there is no meaningful validation to do on an Ontime action, we let the server deal with the data
+      await testOutput(values);
+      reportTest(key, { status: 'ok', message: 'Sent' });
+    } catch (error) {
+      reportTest(key, { status: 'error', message: maybeAxiosError(error) });
    }
  };

-  const handleTestHTTPOutput = async (index: number) => {
-    try {
-      const values = getValues(`outputs.${index}`) as HTTPOutput;
-      if (!values.url) {
-        return;
-      }
-      await testOutput({
-        type: 'http',
-        url: values.url,
-      });
-    } catch (_error) {
-      /** we dont handle errors here, users should use the network tab */
+  /**
+   * Reconciles the lifecycle selection against the global triggers.
+   * Runs after the automation itself is saved: a new automation has no id until then.
+   *
+   * Both sides are diffed against the mount-time snapshot, so this only ever removes
+   * triggers the user could actually see when they made the change.
+   */
+  const syncTriggers = async (automationId: string, title: string) => {
+    for (const trigger of triggersToRemove) {
+      await deleteTrigger(trigger.id);
    }
-  };

-  const handleTestOntimeAction = async (index: number) => {
-    try {
-      const values = getValues(`outputs.${index}`) as OntimeAction;
-      // NOTE: there is no meaningful validation to do here, we let the server deal with the data
-      await testOutput({
-        ...values,
-        type: 'ontime',
-      });
-    } catch (_error) {
-      /** we dont handle errors here */
+    const toAdd = selectedCycles.filter((cycle) => !initialCycles.includes(cycle));
+    for (const cycle of toAdd) {
+      await addTrigger({ title: makeTriggerTitle(title, cycle), trigger: cycle, automationId });
    }
  };

  const onSubmit = async (values: AutomationDTO) => {
-    if (isAutomation(automation)) {
-      await handleEdit(automation.id, { id: automation.id, ...values });
-    } else {
-      await handleCreate(values);
+    // saving happens in two requests, so a retry after a partial failure must edit rather than create again
+    const existingId = isAutomation(automation) ? automation.id : createdId;
+    let automationId: string;
+
+    try {
+      if (existingId) {
+        await editAutomation(existingId, { id: existingId, ...values });
+        automationId = existingId;
+      } else {
+        const created = await addAutomation(values);
+        setCreatedId(created.id);
+        automationId = created.id;
+      }
+    } catch (error) {
+      setError('root', { message: maybeAxiosError(error) });
+      return;
    }
+
+    try {
+      await syncTriggers(automationId, values.title);
+    } catch (error) {
+      // the automation itself is saved, only its triggers failed. Keep the form open so the user can retry
+      refetch();
+      setError('root', { message: `Automation saved, but its triggers failed: ${maybeAxiosError(error)}` });
+      return;
+    }
+
    refetch();
-
-    async function handleEdit(id: string, values: Automation) {
-      try {
-        await editAutomation(id, values);
-        onClose();
-      } catch (error) {
-        setError('root', { message: maybeAxiosError(error) });
-      }
-    }
-
-    async function handleCreate(values: AutomationDTO) {
-      try {
-        await addAutomation(values);
-        onClose();
-      } catch (error) {
-        setError('root', { message: maybeAxiosError(error) });
-      }
-    }
+    onClose();
  };

-  const canSubmit = !isSubmitting && isDirty && isValid;
+  /** describes a filter in plain language so the user does not have to read the form back to themselves */
+  const describeFilter = (index: number): string | null => {
+    const field = watch(`filters.${index}.field`);
+    if (!field) {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    const fieldLabel = fieldList.find((option) => option.value === field)?.label ?? field;
+    const operator = watch(`filters.${index}.operator`);
+    const operatorLabel = operators.find((option) => option.value === operator)?.label ?? operator;
+    const value = watch(`filters.${index}.value`);
+
+    return `${fieldLabel} ${operatorLabel} ${value ? `“${value}”` : 'nothing'}`;
+  };
+
+  const canSubmit = !isSubmitting && (isDirty || cyclesAreDirty) && isValid;
+  const hasContinuousCycle = selectedCycles.some((cycle) => continuousCycles.includes(cycle));

  return (
-    <Panel.Indent
-      as='form'
-      name='automation-form'
-      onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)}
-      className={style.outerColumn}
-      onKeyDown={(event) => preventEscape(event, onClose)}
-    >
-      <Panel.SubHeader>{isEdit ? 'Edit automation' : 'Create automation'}</Panel.SubHeader>
-      <div className={style.innerSection}>
-        <h3>Automation options</h3>
-        <div className={style.titleSection}>
-          <label>
-            Title
-            <Input
-              {...register('title', { required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' } })}
-              fluid
-              placeholder='Load preset'
-            />
-          </label>
-          <Panel.Error>{errors.title?.message}</Panel.Error>
-        </div>
-      </div>
+    <Modal
+      isOpen
+      onClose={onClose}
+      showBackdrop
+      showCloseButton
+      size='wide'
+      title={isEdit ? 'Edit automation' : 'Create automation'}
+      bodyElements={
+        <form id={formId} onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)} className={style.form}>
+          <ScrollArea className={style.formScroll} contentClassName={style.outerColumn}>
+            <div className={style.innerColumn}>
+              <h3>Automation options</h3>
+              <div className={style.titleSection}>
+                <label>
+                  Title
+                  <Input
+                    {...register('title', { required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' } })}
+                    fluid
+                    placeholder='Load preset'
+                  />
+                </label>
+                <Panel.Error>{errors.title?.message}</Panel.Error>
+              </div>

-      <div className={style.innerSection}>
-        <h3>Filters (optional)</h3>
-        <div className={style.ruleSection}>
-          <label>
-            Trigger outputs if
-            <RadioGroup
-              orientation='horizontal'
-              value={watch('filterRule')}
-              onValueChange={(value) => setValue('filterRule', value, { shouldDirty: true })}
-              items={[
-                { value: 'all', label: 'All filters pass' },
-                { value: 'any', label: 'Any filter passes' },
-              ]}
-            />
-          </label>
-          {fieldFilters.map((field, index) => {
-            const key = `filters.${index}.field.${field.id}`;
-            return (
-              <div key={key} className={style.filterSection}>
-                <label>
-                  Runtime data source
-                  <Select<string | null>
-                    // need to normalize '' to null for the Select to show the placeholder
-                    value={watch(`filters.${index}.field`) || null}
-                    onValueChange={(value) => {
-                      if (value === null) return;
-                      setValue(`filters.${index}.field`, value, { shouldDirty: true });
-                    }}
-                    options={fieldList.map(({ value, label }) => ({
-                      value,
-                      label,
-                      disabled: value === null,
-                    }))}
-                    aria-label='Event field'
-                  />
-                  <Panel.Error>{errors.filters?.[index]?.field?.message}</Panel.Error>
-                </label>
-                <label>
-                  Matching condition
-                  <Select
-                    value={watch(`filters.${index}.operator`)}
-                    onValueChange={(value: string | null) => {
-                      if (value === null) return;
-                      setValue(
-                        `filters.${index}.operator`,
-                        value as 'equals' | 'not_equals' | 'greater_than' | 'less_than' | 'contains' | 'not_contains',
-                        { shouldDirty: true },
-                      );
-                    }}
-                    options={[
-                      { value: 'equals', label: 'equals' },
-                      { value: 'not_equals', label: 'not equals' },
-                      { value: 'contains', label: 'contains' },
-                    ]}
-                    aria-label='Operator'
-                  />
-                  <Panel.Error>{errors.filters?.[index]?.operator?.message}</Panel.Error>
-                </label>
-                <label>
-                  Value to match
-                  <Input {...register(`filters.${index}.value`)} fluid placeholder='<empty / no value>' />
-                </label>
+              <div className={style.titleSection}>
+                <label id='runs-on-label'>Runs on</label>
+                <Panel.Description>
+                  Pick the moments in the timer lifecycle that should run this automation. You can also attach it to a
+                  single event from the event editor.
+                </Panel.Description>
+                <Panel.InlineElements relation='inner' wrap='wrap' aria-labelledby='runs-on-label' role='group'>
+                  {cycles.map(({ id, label, value }) => {
+                    const cycle = value as TimerLifeCycle;
+                    const isSelected = selectedCycles.includes(cycle);
+                    return (
+                      <Button
+                        key={id}
+                        size='small'
+                        variant={isSelected ? 'primary' : 'subtle'}
+                        aria-pressed={isSelected}
+                        onClick={() => toggleCycle(cycle)}
+                      >
+                        {label}
+                      </Button>
+                    );
+                  })}
+                </Panel.InlineElements>
+                {hasContinuousCycle && (
+                  <Panel.Description tone='warning'>
+                    Every second and On Timer Update fire continuously while the timer runs. Add a filter unless you
+                    mean to send on every tick.
+                  </Panel.Description>
+                )}
+                {triggersToRemove.length > 0 && (
+                  <Panel.Description tone='warning'>
+                    {`Saving removes ${triggersToRemove.length === 1 ? 'the trigger' : `${triggersToRemove.length} triggers`}: ${triggersToRemove
+                      .map((trigger) => trigger.title)
+                      .join(', ')}`}
+                  </Panel.Description>
+                )}
+              </div>
+            </div>
+
+            <div className={style.innerColumn}>
+              <h3>Filters (optional)</h3>
+              <Panel.Description>
+                Without filters the outputs are sent every time the automation is triggered.
+              </Panel.Description>
+              <div className={style.ruleSection}>
+                {fieldFilters.length > 1 && (
+                  <label>
+                    Trigger outputs if
+                    <RadioGroup
+                      orientation='horizontal'
+                      value={watch('filterRule')}
+                      onValueChange={(value) => setValue('filterRule', value, { shouldDirty: true })}
+                      items={[
+                        { value: 'all', label: 'All filters pass' },
+                        { value: 'any', label: 'Any filter passes' },
+                      ]}
+                    />
+                  </label>
+                )}
+                {fieldFilters.map((field, index) => {
+                  const description = describeFilter(index);
+                  return (
+                    <div key={field.id} className={style.card}>
+                      <div className={style.cardHeader}>
+                        <Tag>Filter</Tag>
+                        <span className={style.cardSummary}>{description}</span>
+                        <IconButton
+                          aria-label='Delete filter'
+                          variant='ghosted-destructive'
+                          onClick={() => removeFilter(index)}
+                        >
+                          <IoTrash />
+                        </IconButton>
+                      </div>
+                      <div className={style.cardBody}>
+                        <label>
+                          Runtime data source
+                          <Select<string | null>
+                            // need to normalize '' to null for the Select to show the placeholder
+                            value={watch(`filters.${index}.field`) || null}
+                            onValueChange={(value) => {
+                              if (value === null) return;
+                              setValue(`filters.${index}.field`, value, { shouldDirty: true });
+                            }}
+                            options={fieldList.map(({ value, label }) => ({
+                              value,
+                              label,
+                              disabled: value === null,
+                            }))}
+                            aria-label='Event field'
+                          />
+                          <Panel.Error>{errors.filters?.[index]?.field?.message}</Panel.Error>
+                        </label>
+                        <label>
+                          Matching condition
+                          <Select
+                            value={watch(`filters.${index}.operator`)}
+                            onValueChange={(value: string | null) => {
+                              if (value === null) return;
+                              setValue(`filters.${index}.operator`, value as AutomationFilter['operator'], {
+                                shouldDirty: true,
+                              });
+                            }}
+                            options={operators}
+                            aria-label='Operator'
+                          />
+                          <Panel.Error>{errors.filters?.[index]?.operator?.message}</Panel.Error>
+                        </label>
+                        <label>
+                          Value to match
+                          <Input {...register(`filters.${index}.value`)} fluid placeholder='<empty / no value>' />
+                        </label>
+                      </div>
+                    </div>
+                  );
+                })}
                <div>
-                  <span>&nbsp;</span>
-                  <div>
-                    <IconButton aria-label='Delete' variant='ghosted-destructive' onClick={() => removeFilter(index)}>
-                      <IoTrash />
-                    </IconButton>
-                  </div>
+                  <Button onClick={handleAddNewFilter}>
+                    Add filter <IoAdd />
+                  </Button>
                </div>
              </div>
-            );
-          })}
-          <div>
-            <Button onClick={handleAddNewFilter}>
-              Add filter <IoAdd />
-            </Button>
-          </div>
-        </div>
-      </div>
+            </div>

-      <div className={style.innerColumn}>
-        <h3>Outputs</h3>
-        <Info>
-          Automation outputs can be used to send data from Ontime to external software <br />
-          or to change properties of Ontime itself. <br /> <br />
-          Use Ontime runtime data in these fields with template strings. Type {'{{'} to see autocomplete, or{' '}
-          <ExternalLink href={integrationsDocsUrl}>read the docs</ExternalLink>
-        </Info>
+            <div className={style.innerColumn}>
+              <h3>Outputs</h3>
+              <Info>
+                Type {'{{'} in any field to drop in Ontime runtime data, like the running event title.{' '}
+                <ExternalLink href={integrationsDocsUrl}>read the docs</ExternalLink>
+              </Info>

-        {fieldOutputs.map((output, index) => {
-          if (isOSCOutput(output)) {
-            const rowErrors = errors.outputs?.[index] as
-              | {
-                  targetIP?: { message?: string };
-                  targetPort?: { message?: string };
-                  address?: { message?: string };
-                  args?: { message?: string };
+              {fieldOutputs.length === 0 && (
+                <Panel.EmptyState
+                  title='This automation does nothing yet'
+                  description='An automation without outputs will be triggered, but it has nothing to send.'
+                />
+              )}
+
+              {fieldOutputs.map((output, index) => {
+                const rowErrors = getOutputErrors(index);
+                const cardProps = {
+                  testState: testResults[output.id],
+                  onTest: () => handleTest(index, output.id),
+                  onDelete: () => removeOutput(index),
+                };
+
+                if (isOSCOutput(output)) {
+                  return (
+                    <OutputCard
+                      key={output.id}
+                      label='OSC'
+                      kindClass={style.tagOsc}
+                      summary={watch(`outputs.${index}.address`)}
+                      {...cardProps}
+                    >
+                      <OscOutputForm index={index} output={output} register={register} rowErrors={rowErrors} />
+                    </OutputCard>
+                  );
                }
-              | undefined;

-            return (
-              <div key={output.id} className={style.outputCard}>
-                <Tag>OSC</Tag>
-                <div className={style.oscSection}>
-                  <label>
-                    Target IP
-                    <Input
-                      {...register(`outputs.${index}.targetIP`, {
-                        required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' },
-                      })}
-                      fluid
-                      placeholder='127.0.0.1'
-                    />
-                    <Panel.Error>{rowErrors?.targetIP?.message}</Panel.Error>
-                  </label>
-                  <label>
-                    Target Port
-                    <Input
-                      {...register(`outputs.${index}.targetPort`, {
-                        required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' },
-                        setValueAs: (value) => (value === '' ? 0 : Number(value)),
-                        max: { value: 65535, message: 'Port must be within range 1024 - 65535' },
-                        min: { value: 1024, message: 'Port must be within range 1024 - 65535' },
-                      })}
-                      fluid
-                      type='number'
-                      maxLength={5}
-                      placeholder='8000'
-                    />
-                    <Panel.Error>{rowErrors?.targetPort?.message}</Panel.Error>
-                  </label>
-                  <label>
-                    Address
-                    <TemplateInput
-                      {...register(`outputs.${index}.address`)}
-                      value={output.address}
-                      fluid
-                      placeholder='/cue/start'
-                    />
-                    <Panel.Error>{rowErrors?.address?.message}</Panel.Error>
-                  </label>
-                  <label>
-                    Arguments
-                    <TemplateInput {...register(`outputs.${index}.args`)} value={output.args} fluid placeholder='1' />
-                    <Panel.Error>{rowErrors?.args?.message}</Panel.Error>
-                  </label>
-                  <div>
-                    <span>&nbsp;</span>
-                    <Panel.InlineElements relation='inner'>
-                      <Button variant='ghosted-white' onClick={() => handleTestOSCOutput(index)}>
-                        Test
-                      </Button>
-                      <IconButton aria-label='Delete' variant='ghosted-destructive' onClick={() => removeOutput(index)}>
-                        <IoTrash />
-                      </IconButton>
-                    </Panel.InlineElements>
-                  </div>
-                </div>
-              </div>
-            );
-          }
-          if (isHTTPOutput(output)) {
-            const rowErrors = errors.outputs?.[index] as
-              | {
-                  url?: { message?: string };
+                if (isHTTPOutput(output)) {
+                  return (
+                    <OutputCard key={output.id} label='HTTP' kindClass={style.tagHttp} {...cardProps}>
+                      <HttpOutputForm index={index} output={output} register={register} rowErrors={rowErrors} />
+                    </OutputCard>
+                  );
                }
-              | undefined;
-            return (
-              <div key={output.id} className={style.outputCard}>
-                <Tag>HTTP</Tag>
-                <div className={style.httpSection}>
-                  <label>
-                    Target URL
-                    <TemplateInput
-                      {...register(`outputs.${index}.url`, {
-                        required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' },
-                        pattern: {
-                          value: startsWithHttp,
-                          message: 'HTTP messages should target http:// or https://',
-                        },
-                      })}
-                      value={output.url}
-                      fluid
-                      placeholder='http://127.0.0.1/start/1'
-                    />
-                    <Panel.Error>{rowErrors?.url?.message}</Panel.Error>
-                  </label>
-                  <div>
-                    <span>&nbsp;</span>
-                    <Panel.InlineElements relation='inner'>
-                      <Button variant='ghosted-white' onClick={() => handleTestHTTPOutput(index)}>
-                        Test
-                      </Button>
-                      <IconButton aria-label='Delete' variant='ghosted-destructive' onClick={() => removeOutput(index)}>
-                        <IoTrash />
-                      </IconButton>
-                    </Panel.InlineElements>
-                  </div>
-                </div>
-              </div>
-            );
-          }

-          if (isOntimeAction(output)) {
-            const rowErrors = errors.outputs?.[index] as
-              | {
-                  action?: { message?: string };
-                  time?: { message?: string };
-                  text?: { message?: string };
-                  visible?: { message?: string };
-                  secondarySource?: { message?: string };
+                if (isOntimeAction(output)) {
+                  return (
+                    <OutputCard key={output.id} label='Ontime action' kindClass={style.tagOntime} {...cardProps}>
+                      <OntimeActionForm
+                        value={output.action}
+                        index={index}
+                        register={register}
+                        rowErrors={rowErrors}
+                        setValue={setValue}
+                        watch={watch}
+                      />
+                    </OutputCard>
+                  );
                }
-              | undefined;
-            return (
-              <div key={output.id} className={style.outputCard}>
-                <Tag>Ontime action</Tag>
-                <OntimeActionForm
-                  value={output.action}
-                  index={index}
-                  register={register}
-                  rowErrors={rowErrors}
-                  setValue={setValue}
-                  watch={watch}
+
+                return null;
+              })}
+              <div>
+                <DropdownMenu
+                  render={<Button />}
+                  items={[
+                    {
+                      type: 'item',
+                      label: 'OSC',
+                      description: 'Send an OSC message to a device on the network',
+                      onClick: handleAddNewOSCOutput,
+                    },
+                    {
+                      type: 'item',
+                      label: 'HTTP',
+                      description: 'Call a URL, for webhooks and REST APIs',
+                      onClick: handleAddNewHTTPOutput,
+                    },
+                    {
+                      type: 'item',
+                      label: 'Ontime action',
+                      description: 'Change something inside Ontime, like a message or an aux timer',
+                      onClick: handleAddnewOntimeAction,
+                    },
+                  ]}
                >
-                  <span>&nbsp;</span>
-                  <Panel.InlineElements relation='inner'>
-                    <Button variant='ghosted-white' onClick={() => handleTestOntimeAction(index)}>
-                      Test
-                    </Button>
-                    <IconButton aria-label='Delete' variant='ghosted-destructive' onClick={() => removeOutput(index)}>
-                      <IoTrash />
-                    </IconButton>
-                  </Panel.InlineElements>
-                </OntimeActionForm>
+                  Add output <IoAdd />
+                </DropdownMenu>
              </div>
-            );
-          }
-
-          // there should be no other output types
-          return null;
-        })}
-        <Panel.InlineElements relation='inner'>
-          <Button onClick={handleAddNewOSCOutput}>
-            OSC <IoAdd />
+            </div>
+          </ScrollArea>
+        </form>
+      }
+      footerElements={
+        <>
+          {errors?.root && <Panel.Error>{errors.root.message}</Panel.Error>}
+          <Button onClick={onClose}>Cancel</Button>
+          <Button variant='primary' type='submit' form={formId} disabled={!canSubmit} loading={isSubmitting}>
+            Save
          </Button>
-          <Button onClick={handleAddNewHTTPOutput}>
-            HTTP <IoAdd />
-          </Button>
-          <Button onClick={handleAddnewOntimeAction}>
-            Ontime action <IoAdd />
-          </Button>
-        </Panel.InlineElements>
-      </div>
-
-      <Panel.InlineElements align='end'>
-        {errors?.root && <Panel.Error>{errors.root.message}</Panel.Error>}
-        <Button onClick={onClose}>Cancel</Button>
-        <Button variant='primary' type='submit' disabled={!canSubmit} loading={isSubmitting}>
-          Save
-        </Button>
-      </Panel.InlineElements>
-    </Panel.Indent>
+        </>
+      }
+    />
  );
 }
@@ -19,24 +19,27 @@ export default function AutomationPanel({ location }: PanelBaseProps) {
  return (
    <>
      <Panel.Header>Automation</Panel.Header>
-      <Panel.Section>
-        <Panel.Loader isLoading={isLoading} />
-        <div ref={settingsRef}>
-          <AutomationSettingsForm
-            enabledAutomations={data.enabledAutomations}
-            enabledOscIn={data.enabledOscIn}
-            oscPortIn={data.oscPortIn}
-            automationState={automationState}
-            oscInputState={oscInputState}
-          />
-        </div>
-        <div ref={automationsRef}>
-          <AutomationsList automations={data.automations} enabledAutomations={automationState} />
-        </div>
-        <div ref={triggersRef}>
-          <TriggersList triggers={data.triggers} automations={data.automations} enabledAutomations={automationState} />
-        </div>
-      </Panel.Section>
+      <div ref={settingsRef}>
+        <AutomationSettingsForm
+          enabledAutomations={data.enabledAutomations}
+          enabledOscIn={data.enabledOscIn}
+          oscPortIn={data.oscPortIn}
+          automationState={automationState}
+          oscInputState={oscInputState}
+          isLoading={isLoading}
+        />
+      </div>
+      <div ref={automationsRef}>
+        <AutomationsList
+          automations={data.automations}
+          triggers={data.triggers}
+          enabledAutomations={automationState}
+          isLoading={isLoading}
+        />
+      </div>
+      <div ref={triggersRef}>
+        <TriggersList triggers={data.triggers} automations={data.automations} isLoading={isLoading} />
+      </div>
    </>
  );
 }
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ interface AutomationSettingsProps {
  oscPortIn: number;
  automationState?: boolean;
  oscInputState?: boolean;
+  isLoading?: boolean;
 }

 export default function AutomationSettingsForm({
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ export default function AutomationSettingsForm({
  oscPortIn,
  automationState,
  oscInputState,
+  isLoading,
 }: AutomationSettingsProps) {
  const {
    handleSubmit,
@@ -65,126 +67,130 @@ export default function AutomationSettingsForm({
  const oscInputEnabled = watch('enabledOscIn');

  return (
-    <Panel.Card>
-      <Panel.SubHeader>
-        Automation settings
-        <Panel.InlineElements>
-          <Button variant='ghosted' onClick={onReset} disabled={!canSubmit}>
-            Revert to saved
-          </Button>
-          <Button
-            variant='primary'
-            type='submit'
-            form='automation-settings-form'
-            disabled={!canSubmit}
-            loading={isSubmitting}
-          >
-            Save
-          </Button>
-        </Panel.InlineElements>
-      </Panel.SubHeader>
-      {errors?.root && <Panel.Error>{errors.root.message}</Panel.Error>}
+    <Panel.Section>
+      <Panel.Card>
+        <Panel.Loader isLoading={Boolean(isLoading)} />
+        <Panel.SubHeader>
+          Automation settings
+          <Panel.InlineElements>
+            <Button variant='ghosted' onClick={onReset} disabled={!canSubmit}>
+              Revert to saved
+            </Button>
+            <Button
+              variant='primary'
+              type='submit'
+              form='automation-settings-form'
+              disabled={!canSubmit}
+              loading={isSubmitting}
+            >
+              Save
+            </Button>
+          </Panel.InlineElements>
+        </Panel.SubHeader>
+        {errors?.root && <Panel.Error>{errors.root.message}</Panel.Error>}

-      <Panel.Divider />
+        <Panel.Divider />

-      <Panel.Section>
-        <Info>
-          <span>Control Ontime and share its data with external systems in your workflow.</span>
-          <span>- Automations allow Ontime to send its data on lifecycle triggers.</span>
-          <span>- OSC Input tells Ontime to listen to messages on the specific port.</span>
-          <ExternalLink href={oscApiDocsUrl}>See the docs</ExternalLink>
-        </Info>
-      </Panel.Section>
+        <Panel.Section>
+          <Info>
+            <span>Control Ontime and share its data with external systems in your workflow.</span>
+            <span>- An automation is what to send: OSC and HTTP messages, or an action inside Ontime.</span>
+            <span>- A trigger is when to send it. Triggers for a single event live in the event editor.</span>
+            <span>- OSC Input tells Ontime to listen to messages on the specific port.</span>
+            <ExternalLink href={oscApiDocsUrl}>See the docs</ExternalLink>
+          </Info>
+        </Panel.Section>

-      <Panel.Section
-        as='form'
-        id='automation-settings-form'
-        onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)}
-        onKeyDown={(event) => preventEscape(event, onReset)}
-      >
-        <Panel.Loader isLoading={false} />
+        <Panel.Section
+          as='form'
+          id='automation-settings-form'
+          onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)}
+          onKeyDown={(event) => preventEscape(event, onReset)}
+        >
+          <Panel.Title>Automation</Panel.Title>
+          <Panel.ListGroup>
+            <Panel.ListItem>
+              <Panel.Field
+                title={
+                  <>
+                    <span>Enable automations</span>
+                    {automationState === false && <Tag variant='warning'>OFF</Tag>}
+                  </>
+                }
+                description={
+                  automationState === false
+                    ? 'Automations are OFF. Triggers stay configured, but Ontime will not send messages.'
+                    : 'Allow Ontime to send messages on lifecycle triggers'
+                }
+                descriptionTone={automationState === false ? 'warning' : 'default'}
+                error={errors.enabledAutomations?.message}
+              />
+              <Switch
+                size='large'
+                checked={automationsEnabled}
+                onCheckedChange={(value: boolean) =>
+                  setValue('enabledAutomations', value, { shouldDirty: true, shouldValidate: true })
+                }
+              />
+            </Panel.ListItem>
+          </Panel.ListGroup>
+          <Panel.Title>OSC Input</Panel.Title>

-        <Panel.Title>Automation</Panel.Title>
-        <Panel.ListGroup>
-          <Panel.ListItem>
-            <Panel.Field
-              title={
-                <>
-                  <span>Enable automations</span>
-                  {automationState === false && <Tag variant='warning'>OFF</Tag>}
-                </>
-              }
-              description={
-                automationState === false
-                  ? 'Automations are OFF. Triggers stay configured, but Ontime will not send messages.'
-                  : 'Allow Ontime to send messages on lifecycle triggers'
-              }
-              descriptionTone={automationState === false ? 'warning' : 'default'}
-              error={errors.enabledAutomations?.message}
-            />
-            <Switch
-              size='large'
-              checked={automationsEnabled}
-              onCheckedChange={(value: boolean) =>
-                setValue('enabledAutomations', value, { shouldDirty: true, shouldValidate: true })
-              }
-            />
-          </Panel.ListItem>
-        </Panel.ListGroup>
-        <Panel.Title>OSC Input</Panel.Title>
-
-        <Panel.ListGroup>
-          {isOntimeCloud && <Info>For security reasons OSC integrations are not available in the cloud service.</Info>}
-          <Panel.ListItem>
-            <Panel.Field
-              title={
-                <>
-                  <span>OSC input</span>
-                  {oscInputState === false && <Tag variant='warning'>OFF</Tag>}
-                </>
-              }
-              description={
-                oscInputState === false
-                  ? 'OSC input is OFF. Ontime will not listen for incoming OSC control messages.'
-                  : 'Allow control of Ontime through OSC'
-              }
-              descriptionTone={oscInputState === false ? 'warning' : 'default'}
-              error={errors.enabledOscIn?.message}
-            />
-            <Switch
-              size='large'
-              checked={oscInputEnabled}
-              onCheckedChange={(value: boolean) =>
-                setValue('enabledOscIn', value, { shouldDirty: true, shouldValidate: true })
-              }
-            />
-          </Panel.ListItem>
-          <Panel.ListItem>
-            <Panel.Field
-              title='Listen on port'
-              description='Port for incoming OSC. Default: 8888'
-              error={errors.oscPortIn?.message}
-            />
-            <Input
-              id='oscPortIn'
-              placeholder='8888'
-              maxLength={5}
-              style={{ textAlign: 'right', width: '5rem' }}
-              type='number'
-              fluid
-              {...register('oscPortIn', {
-                required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' },
-                max: { value: 65535, message: 'Port must be within range 1024 - 65535' },
-                min: { value: 1024, message: 'Port must be within range 1024 - 65535' },
-                pattern: {
-                  value: isOnlyNumbers,
-                  message: 'Value should be numeric',
-                },
-              })}
-            />
-          </Panel.ListItem>
-        </Panel.ListGroup>
-      </Panel.Section>
-    </Panel.Card>
+          <Panel.ListGroup>
+            {isOntimeCloud && (
+              <Info>For security reasons OSC integrations are not available in the cloud service.</Info>
+            )}
+            <Panel.ListItem>
+              <Panel.Field
+                title={
+                  <>
+                    <span>OSC input</span>
+                    {oscInputState === false && <Tag variant='warning'>OFF</Tag>}
+                  </>
+                }
+                description={
+                  oscInputState === false
+                    ? 'OSC input is OFF. Ontime will not listen for incoming OSC control messages.'
+                    : 'Allow control of Ontime through OSC'
+                }
+                descriptionTone={oscInputState === false ? 'warning' : 'default'}
+                error={errors.enabledOscIn?.message}
+              />
+              <Switch
+                size='large'
+                checked={oscInputEnabled}
+                onCheckedChange={(value: boolean) =>
+                  setValue('enabledOscIn', value, { shouldDirty: true, shouldValidate: true })
+                }
+              />
+            </Panel.ListItem>
+            <Panel.ListItem>
+              <Panel.Field
+                title='Listen on port'
+                description='Port for incoming OSC. Default: 8888'
+                error={errors.oscPortIn?.message}
+              />
+              <Input
+                id='oscPortIn'
+                placeholder='8888'
+                maxLength={5}
+                style={{ textAlign: 'right', width: '5rem' }}
+                type='number'
+                fluid
+                {...register('oscPortIn', {
+                  required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' },
+                  max: { value: 65535, message: 'Port must be within range 1024 - 65535' },
+                  min: { value: 1024, message: 'Port must be within range 1024 - 65535' },
+                  pattern: {
+                    value: isOnlyNumbers,
+                    message: 'Value should be numeric',
+                  },
+                })}
+              />
+            </Panel.ListItem>
+          </Panel.ListGroup>
+        </Panel.Section>
+      </Panel.Card>
+    </Panel.Section>
  );
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/** tags make a cell taller than the title beside it, which staggers on the default baseline */
+.table td {
+  vertical-align: middle;
+}
+
+.tags {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+.actions {
+  justify-content: flex-end;
+  flex-wrap: nowrap;
+}
+
+.muted {
+  color: $muted-gray;
+}
@@ -1,18 +1,25 @@
-import { AutomationDTO, NormalisedAutomation } from 'ontime-types';
-import { Fragment, useState } from 'react';
+import { Automation, AutomationDTO, NormalisedAutomation, Trigger } from 'ontime-types';
+import { useMemo, useState } from 'react';
 import { IoAdd, IoPencil, IoTrash } from 'react-icons/io5';

-import { deleteAutomation } from '../../../../common/api/automation';
-import { maybeAxiosError } from '../../../../common/api/utils';
 import Button from '../../../../common/components/buttons/Button';
 import IconButton from '../../../../common/components/buttons/IconButton';
 import Info from '../../../../common/components/info/Info';
 import Tag from '../../../../common/components/tag/Tag';
+import { getLifecycleLabel } from '../../../../common/constants/timerLifecycle';
 import useAutomationSettings from '../../../../common/hooks-query/useAutomationSettings';
+import { summariseOutputs } from '../../../../common/utils/automationOutputs';
+import { cx } from '../../../../common/utils/styleUtils';
 import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+import useAppSettingsNavigation from '../../useAppSettingsNavigation';
 import AutomationForm from './AutomationForm';
+import { groupTriggersByAutomation, isAutomation } from './automationUtils';
+import DeleteAutomationDialog from './DeleteAutomationDialog';
+import NewAutomationDialog from './NewAutomationDialog';

-const automationPlaceholder: AutomationDTO = {
+import style from './AutomationsList.module.scss';
+
+const emptyAutomation: AutomationDTO = {
  title: '',
  filterRule: 'all',
  filters: [],
@@ -21,112 +28,181 @@ const automationPlaceholder: AutomationDTO = {

 interface AutomationsListProps {
  automations: NormalisedAutomation;
+  triggers: Trigger[];
  enabledAutomations?: boolean;
+  isLoading: boolean;
 }

-export default function AutomationsList(props: AutomationsListProps) {
-  const { automations, enabledAutomations } = props;
+export default function AutomationsList({
+  automations,
+  triggers,
+  enabledAutomations,
+  isLoading,
+}: AutomationsListProps) {
  const { refetch } = useAutomationSettings();
-  const [automationFormData, setAutomationFormData] = useState<AutomationDTO | null>(null);
-  const [deleteError, setDeleteError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const { setLocation } = useAppSettingsNavigation();
+  const [editing, setEditing] = useState<Automation | AutomationDTO | null>(null);
+  const [isPickingStart, setIsPickingStart] = useState(false);
+  const [deleteTarget, setDeleteTarget] = useState<Automation | null>(null);

-  const handleDelete = async (id: string) => {
-    try {
-      setDeleteError(null);
-      await deleteAutomation(id);
-    } catch (error) {
-      setDeleteError(maybeAxiosError(error));
-    } finally {
-      refetch();
-    }
+  const lifecyclesByAutomation = useMemo(() => groupTriggersByAutomation(triggers), [triggers]);
+  const automationIds = Object.keys(automations);
+
+  /** a recipe creates the automation itself, so it lands in the list rather than in a form */
+  const handleCreated = async () => {
+    setIsPickingStart(false);
+    await refetch();
  };

-  const arrayAutomations = Object.keys(automations);
+  const handleStartEmpty = () => {
+    setIsPickingStart(false);
+    setEditing(emptyAutomation);
+  };
+
+  const handleDeleted = async () => {
+    setDeleteTarget(null);
+    await refetch();
+  };

  return (
-    <Panel.Card>
-      <Panel.SubHeader>
-        Manage automations
-        <Button
-          type='submit'
-          disabled={Boolean(automationFormData)}
-          onClick={() => setAutomationFormData(automationPlaceholder)}
-        >
-          New <IoAdd />
-        </Button>
-      </Panel.SubHeader>
+    <Panel.Section>
+      <Panel.Card>
+        {editing !== null && (
+          <AutomationForm
+            // the form snapshots the automation's lifecycles on mount, so it must never be
+            // reused across two different automations
+            key={isAutomation(editing) ? editing.id : 'new'}
+            automation={editing}
+            triggers={triggers}
+            onClose={() => setEditing(null)}
+          />
+        )}
+        {isPickingStart && (
+          <NewAutomationDialog
+            onClose={() => setIsPickingStart(false)}
+            onStartEmpty={handleStartEmpty}
+            onCreated={handleCreated}
+          />
+        )}
+        {deleteTarget !== null && (
+          <DeleteAutomationDialog
+            automation={deleteTarget}
+            attachedTriggers={triggers.filter((trigger) => trigger.automationId === deleteTarget.id)}
+            onCancel={() => setDeleteTarget(null)}
+            onDeleted={handleDeleted}
+          />
+        )}
+        <Panel.SubHeader>
+          Manage automations
+          <Button onClick={() => setIsPickingStart(true)}>
+            New <IoAdd />
+          </Button>
+        </Panel.SubHeader>

-      <Panel.Divider />
+        <Panel.Divider />

-      {enabledAutomations === false && (
-        <Info>
-          Automations are disabled. You can still manage automation definitions here, but they will not run until
-          enabled.
-        </Info>
-      )}
-
-      {automationFormData !== null && (
-        <AutomationForm automation={automationFormData} onClose={() => setAutomationFormData(null)} />
-      )}
-
-      <Panel.Table>
-        <thead>
-          <tr>
-            <th style={{ width: '45%' }}>Title</th>
-            <th style={{ width: '15%' }}>Trigger rule</th>
-            <th style={{ width: '15%' }}>Filters</th>
-            <th style={{ width: '15%' }}>Outputs</th>
-            <th />
-          </tr>
-        </thead>
-        <tbody>
-          {arrayAutomations.length === 0 && (
-            <Panel.TableEmpty
-              handleClick={!automationFormData ? () => setAutomationFormData(automationPlaceholder) : undefined}
-            />
+        <Panel.Section>
+          {enabledAutomations === false && (
+            <Info type='warning'>
+              <Info.Body>Automations are off, so nothing in this list will run.</Info.Body>
+              <Info.Footer>
+                {/* the master switch is at the top of the panel, out of sight once the list has rows */}
+                <Button size='small' onClick={() => setLocation('automation__settings')}>
+                  Go to automation settings
+                </Button>
+              </Info.Footer>
+            </Info>
          )}
-          {arrayAutomations.map((automationId) => {
-            if (!Object.hasOwn(automations, automationId)) {
-              return null;
-            }
-            return (
-              <Fragment key={automationId}>
-                <tr>
-                  <td>{automations[automationId].title}</td>
-                  <td>
-                    <Tag>{automations[automationId].filterRule}</Tag>
-                  </td>
-                  <td>{automations[automationId].filters.length}</td>
-                  <td>{automations[automationId].outputs.length}</td>
-                  <Panel.InlineElements align='end' relation='inner' as='td'>
-                    <IconButton
-                      variant='ghosted-white'
-                      aria-label='Edit entry'
-                      onClick={() => setAutomationFormData(automations[automationId])}
-                    >
-                      <IoPencil />
-                    </IconButton>
-                    <IconButton
-                      variant='ghosted-destructive'
-                      aria-label='Delete entry'
-                      onClick={() => handleDelete(automationId)}
-                    >
-                      <IoTrash />
-                    </IconButton>
-                  </Panel.InlineElements>
-                </tr>
-              </Fragment>
-            );
-          })}
-          {deleteError && (
-            <tr>
-              <td colSpan={5}>
-                <Panel.Error>{deleteError}</Panel.Error>
-              </td>
-            </tr>
-          )}
-        </tbody>
-      </Panel.Table>
-    </Panel.Card>
+
+          <Panel.Table className={style.table}>
+            <thead>
+              <tr>
+                <th style={{ width: '35%' }}>Title</th>
+                <th style={{ width: '25%' }}>Runs on</th>
+                <th style={{ width: '15%' }}>Filter rule</th>
+                <th style={{ width: '15%' }}>Sends</th>
+                <th />
+              </tr>
+            </thead>
+            <tbody>
+              {!isLoading && automationIds.length === 0 && (
+                <Panel.TableEmpty
+                  title='No automations yet'
+                  description='An automation sends OSC or HTTP messages, or runs an Ontime action, whenever a trigger fires. Start from a recipe to see one working.'
+                  action={
+                    <Button variant='primary' onClick={() => setIsPickingStart(true)}>
+                      New automation <IoAdd />
+                    </Button>
+                  }
+                />
+              )}
+              {automationIds.map((automationId) => {
+                const automation = automations[automationId];
+                const lifecycles = lifecyclesByAutomation[automationId] ?? [];
+                const outputs = summariseOutputs(automation.outputs);
+
+                return (
+                  <tr key={automationId}>
+                    <td>{automation.title}</td>
+                    <td>
+                      {/*
+                       * Only global triggers are visible here: an automation can also be attached to
+                       * single events, which live in the rundown. An empty cell is therefore not the
+                       * same as never running, so it says nothing rather than claiming that.
+                       */}
+                      {lifecycles.length === 0 ? (
+                        <span className={style.muted}>—</span>
+                      ) : (
+                        <div className={style.tags}>
+                          {lifecycles.map((cycle) => (
+                            <Tag key={cycle}>{getLifecycleLabel(cycle)}</Tag>
+                          ))}
+                        </div>
+                      )}
+                    </td>
+                    <td>
+                      {automation.filters.length === 0 ? (
+                        <span className={style.muted}>—</span>
+                      ) : (
+                        <Tag>{automation.filterRule === 'all' ? 'All filters' : 'Any filter'}</Tag>
+                      )}
+                    </td>
+                    <td>
+                      <div className={style.tags}>
+                        {outputs.length === 0 ? (
+                          <Tag variant='warning'>No outputs</Tag>
+                        ) : (
+                          outputs.map(({ type, label, count }) => (
+                            <Tag key={type}>{count > 1 ? `${label} ×${count}` : label}</Tag>
+                          ))
+                        )}
+                      </div>
+                    </td>
+                    <td>
+                      <div className={cx([style.tags, style.actions])}>
+                        <IconButton
+                          variant='ghosted-white'
+                          aria-label='Edit entry'
+                          onClick={() => setEditing(automation)}
+                        >
+                          <IoPencil />
+                        </IconButton>
+                        <IconButton
+                          variant='ghosted-destructive'
+                          aria-label='Delete entry'
+                          onClick={() => setDeleteTarget(automation)}
+                        >
+                          <IoTrash />
+                        </IconButton>
+                      </div>
+                    </td>
+                  </tr>
+                );
+              })}
+            </tbody>
+          </Panel.Table>
+        </Panel.Section>
+      </Panel.Card>
+    </Panel.Section>
  );
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+import type { Automation, Trigger } from 'ontime-types';
+import { useState } from 'react';
+
+import { deleteAutomation } from '../../../../common/api/automation';
+import { maybeAxiosError } from '../../../../common/api/utils';
+import Button from '../../../../common/components/buttons/Button';
+import Dialog from '../../../../common/components/dialog/Dialog';
+import Info from '../../../../common/components/info/Info';
+import { getLifecycleLabel } from '../../../../common/constants/timerLifecycle';
+import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+
+interface DeleteAutomationDialogProps {
+  automation: Automation;
+  /** global triggers pointing at this automation, they are deleted along with it */
+  attachedTriggers: Trigger[];
+  onCancel: () => void;
+  onDeleted: () => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Deleting takes the automation's global triggers with it, so say so before it happens rather
+ * than leaving the user to discover it in the triggers list.
+ *
+ * An automation attached to an event is still refused by the server: that reference lives in
+ * the rundown and removing it is an edit to the show, not to this panel.
+ */
+export default function DeleteAutomationDialog({
+  automation,
+  attachedTriggers,
+  onCancel,
+  onDeleted,
+}: DeleteAutomationDialogProps) {
+  const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const [isDeleting, setIsDeleting] = useState(false);
+
+  const handleDelete = async () => {
+    setError(null);
+    setIsDeleting(true);
+    try {
+      await deleteAutomation(automation.id);
+      onDeleted();
+    } catch (error) {
+      setError(maybeAxiosError(error));
+    } finally {
+      setIsDeleting(false);
+    }
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <Dialog
+      isOpen
+      onClose={onCancel}
+      showBackdrop
+      showCloseButton
+      title='Delete automation'
+      bodyElements={
+        <Panel.Section>
+          <Panel.Paragraph>
+            Delete <strong>{automation.title}</strong>? This cannot be undone.
+          </Panel.Paragraph>
+
+          {attachedTriggers.length > 0 && (
+            <Info type='warning'>
+              <Info.Title>
+                {attachedTriggers.length === 1
+                  ? 'Its trigger is deleted with it'
+                  : `Its ${attachedTriggers.length} triggers are deleted with it`}
+              </Info.Title>
+              <Info.Body>{attachedTriggers.map((trigger) => getLifecycleLabel(trigger.trigger)).join(', ')}</Info.Body>
+            </Info>
+          )}
+
+          {error && (
+            <Info type='error'>
+              <Info.Title>Could not delete this automation</Info.Title>
+              <Info.Body>{error}</Info.Body>
+              <Info.Footer>
+                An automation attached to a single event has to be removed from that event first, in the event editor.
+              </Info.Footer>
+            </Info>
+          )}
+        </Panel.Section>
+      }
+      footerElements={
+        <>
+          <Button onClick={onCancel} disabled={isDeleting}>
+            Cancel
+          </Button>
+          <Button variant='destructive' onClick={handleDelete} loading={isDeleting}>
+            Delete
+          </Button>
+        </>
+      }
+    />
+  );
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import type { AutomationDTO, HTTPOutput } from 'ontime-types';
+import type { UseFormRegister } from 'react-hook-form';
+
+import { startsWithHttp } from '../../../../common/utils/regex';
+import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+import type { OutputErrors } from './automationUtils';
+import TemplateInput from './template-input/TemplateInput';
+
+import style from './AutomationForm.module.scss';
+
+interface HttpOutputFormProps {
+  index: number;
+  output: HTTPOutput;
+  register: UseFormRegister<AutomationDTO>;
+  rowErrors?: OutputErrors;
+}
+
+export default function HttpOutputForm({ index, output, register, rowErrors }: HttpOutputFormProps) {
+  return (
+    <label className={style.spanFull}>
+      Target URL
+      <TemplateInput
+        {...register(`outputs.${index}.url`, {
+          required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' },
+          pattern: { value: startsWithHttp, message: 'HTTP messages should target http:// or https://' },
+        })}
+        value={output.url}
+        fluid
+        placeholder='http://127.0.0.1/start/1'
+      />
+      <Panel.Error>{rowErrors?.url?.message}</Panel.Error>
+    </label>
+  );
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+/* ---------- step one: pick a recipe ---------- */
+
+.picker {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 0.25rem;
+  color: $ui-white;
+}
+
+/** outside the scrolling list, so it stays put however many recipes there are */
+.search {
+  position: relative;
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  padding-block: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Caps the list rather than fixing its height, so the dialog still shrinks to two results
+ * when a search narrows it down.
+ */
+.listViewport {
+  height: auto;
+  max-height: min(52vh, 30rem);
+}
+
+.list {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  // room for the overlay scrollbar beside the chevrons
+  padding-right: 0.5rem;
+}
+
+.searchIcon {
+  position: absolute;
+  left: 0.625rem;
+  color: $gray-400;
+  pointer-events: none;
+}
+
+.searchInput {
+  padding-left: 2rem;
+  padding-right: 2rem;
+}
+
+.searchClear {
+  position: absolute;
+  right: 0.25rem;
+}
+
+.group {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 0.25rem;
+  padding-top: 0.75rem;
+
+  &:first-child {
+    padding-top: 0;
+  }
+}
+
+.groupTitle {
+  margin: 0;
+  padding-inline: 0.125rem;
+  font-size: $aux-text-size;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  letter-spacing: 0.02em;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+  color: $gray-400;
+}
+
+.recipe {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.75rem;
+  width: 100%;
+  padding: 0.625rem 0.75rem;
+  text-align: left;
+  color: inherit;
+  background-color: transparent;
+  border: 1px solid transparent;
+  border-radius: $component-border-radius-md;
+  cursor: pointer;
+
+  &:hover {
+    background-color: $white-3;
+    border-color: $white-10;
+  }
+
+  &:focus-visible {
+    outline: 1px solid $action-blue;
+    outline-offset: -1px;
+  }
+}
+
+.recipeText {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 0.125rem;
+  flex: 1;
+  min-width: 0;
+}
+
+.recipeTitle {
+  font-weight: 600;
+}
+
+.recipeDescription {
+  font-size: $aux-text-size;
+  color: $secondary-text-gray;
+}
+
+.recipeTags {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+}
+
+.chevron {
+  color: $gray-400;
+}
+
+/* ---------- step two: answer what the recipe cannot know ---------- */
+
+.setup {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 1rem;
+  color: $ui-white;
+  padding-block: 0.25rem;
+}
+
+.setupDescription {
+  margin: 0;
+  color: $secondary-text-gray;
+}
+
+/** the two facts a recipe decides for you, stated before the fields you can change */
+.summary {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: 5rem 1fr;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.5rem 0.75rem;
+  margin: 0;
+  padding: 0.75rem;
+  background-color: $black-10;
+  border: 1px solid $white-10;
+  border-radius: $component-border-radius-md;
+
+  dt {
+    font-size: $aux-text-size;
+    color: $label-gray;
+  }
+
+  dd {
+    display: flex;
+    flex-wrap: wrap;
+    gap: 0.5rem;
+    margin: 0;
+  }
+}
+
+/* three columns, so a recipe's small numeric fields fill a row instead of leaving a hole */
+.fields {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
+  align-items: start;
+  gap: 0.75rem;
+
+  @media (width < 40rem) {
+    grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr);
+  }
+}
+
+/* an address or a sentence, which a third of a row cannot hold */
+.wide {
+  grid-column: 1 / -1;
+}
+
+.field {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  gap: 0.25rem;
+  font-size: $aux-text-size;
+  color: $label-gray;
+}
+
+.hint {
+  color: $secondary-text-gray;
+}
+
+/* pushes the leading action away from the confirming ones */
+.apart {
+  margin-right: auto;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,309 @@
+import type { Automation } from 'ontime-types';
+import { useMemo, useState, type KeyboardEvent } from 'react';
+import { IoAdd, IoArrowBack, IoChevronForward, IoClose, IoSearch } from 'react-icons/io5';
+
+import { addAutomation, addTrigger } from '../../../../common/api/automation';
+import { maybeAxiosError } from '../../../../common/api/utils';
+import Button from '../../../../common/components/buttons/Button';
+import IconButton from '../../../../common/components/buttons/IconButton';
+import Input from '../../../../common/components/input/input/Input';
+import Modal from '../../../../common/components/modal/Modal';
+import ScrollArea from '../../../../common/components/scroll-area/ScrollArea';
+import Select from '../../../../common/components/select/Select';
+import Tag from '../../../../common/components/tag/Tag';
+import { getLifecycleLabel } from '../../../../common/constants/timerLifecycle';
+import { summariseOutputs } from '../../../../common/utils/automationOutputs';
+import { cx } from '../../../../common/utils/styleUtils';
+import { isOntimeCloud } from '../../../../externals';
+import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+import {
+  automationRecipes,
+  defaultValues,
+  needsTarget,
+  recipeCategoryLabels,
+  recipeCategoryOrder,
+  type AutomationRecipe,
+  type RecipeValues,
+} from './automationRecipes';
+import { makeTriggerTitle } from './automationUtils';
+
+import style from './NewAutomationDialog.module.scss';
+
+interface NewAutomationDialogProps {
+  onClose: () => void;
+  /** hands over to the full automation form for someone who wants to start empty */
+  onStartEmpty: () => void;
+  onCreated: (automation: Automation) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The single entry point for making an automation.
+ *
+ * Two steps in one dialog rather than two stacked ones: pick a recipe, then answer only
+ * what that recipe cannot know — where your gear is, how long the timer runs. Everything
+ * else the recipe already decided, which is the point of having recipes at all.
+ */
+export default function NewAutomationDialog({ onClose, onStartEmpty, onCreated }: NewAutomationDialogProps) {
+  const [selected, setSelected] = useState<AutomationRecipe | null>(null);
+
+  return selected === null ? (
+    <RecipePicker onClose={onClose} onStartEmpty={onStartEmpty} onSelect={setSelected} />
+  ) : (
+    <RecipeSetup recipe={selected} onClose={onClose} onBack={() => setSelected(null)} onCreated={onCreated} />
+  );
+}
+
+/** matches on everything the user might type: the software, its protocol, the job it does */
+function matches(recipe: AutomationRecipe, query: string): boolean {
+  const haystack = [recipe.title, recipe.description, recipeCategoryLabels[recipe.category], ...(recipe.keywords ?? [])]
+    .join(' ')
+    .toLowerCase();
+  return query
+    .toLowerCase()
+    .split(/\s+/)
+    .every((term) => haystack.includes(term));
+}
+
+interface RecipePickerProps {
+  onClose: () => void;
+  onStartEmpty: () => void;
+  onSelect: (recipe: AutomationRecipe) => void;
+}
+
+function RecipePicker({ onClose, onStartEmpty, onSelect }: RecipePickerProps) {
+  const [query, setQuery] = useState('');
+
+  const available = useMemo(
+    () =>
+      // OSC is not available in the cloud service, offering those recipes there would be a lie
+      isOntimeCloud
+        ? automationRecipes.filter(
+            (recipe) => !recipe.build(defaultValues(recipe)).outputs.some((output) => output.type === 'osc'),
+          )
+        : automationRecipes,
+    [],
+  );
+
+  const trimmed = query.trim();
+  const results = trimmed ? available.filter((recipe) => matches(recipe, trimmed)) : available;
+
+  const handleSearchKey = (event: KeyboardEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
+    // the dialog is the only thing listening for escape, and losing it while clearing a
+    // search would be a bigger surprise than the search staying put
+    if (event.key === 'Escape' && trimmed.length > 0) {
+      event.stopPropagation();
+      setQuery('');
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (event.key === 'Enter' && results.length > 0) {
+      onSelect(results[0]);
+    }
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <Modal
+      isOpen
+      onClose={onClose}
+      showBackdrop
+      showCloseButton
+      size='compact'
+      title='New automation'
+      bodyElements={
+        <div className={style.picker}>
+          <div className={style.search}>
+            <IoSearch className={style.searchIcon} />
+            <Input
+              value={query}
+              onChange={(event) => setQuery(event.target.value)}
+              onKeyDown={handleSearchKey}
+              placeholder='Search recipes, eg. QLab, OSC, message'
+              className={style.searchInput}
+              aria-label='Search recipes'
+              fluid
+              autoFocus
+            />
+            {trimmed.length > 0 && (
+              <IconButton
+                variant='ghosted-white'
+                size='small'
+                aria-label='Clear search'
+                className={style.searchClear}
+                onClick={() => setQuery('')}
+              >
+                <IoClose />
+              </IconButton>
+            )}
+          </div>
+
+          {results.length === 0 && (
+            <Panel.EmptyState
+              title='No recipe matches that'
+              description='Try the name of the software, or start from an empty automation.'
+            />
+          )}
+
+          <ScrollArea viewportClassName={style.listViewport} contentClassName={style.list}>
+            {recipeCategoryOrder.map((category) => {
+              const inCategory = results.filter((recipe) => recipe.category === category);
+              if (inCategory.length === 0) {
+                return null;
+              }
+
+              return (
+                <section key={category} className={style.group}>
+                  <h4 className={style.groupTitle}>{recipeCategoryLabels[category]}</h4>
+                  {inCategory.map((recipe) => (
+                    <button type='button' key={recipe.id} className={style.recipe} onClick={() => onSelect(recipe)}>
+                      <div className={style.recipeText}>
+                        <div className={style.recipeTitle}>{recipe.title}</div>
+                        <div className={style.recipeDescription}>{recipe.description}</div>
+                      </div>
+                      <div className={style.recipeTags}>
+                        {recipe.triggers.map((cycle) => (
+                          <Tag key={cycle}>{getLifecycleLabel(cycle)}</Tag>
+                        ))}
+                        <IoChevronForward className={style.chevron} />
+                      </div>
+                    </button>
+                  ))}
+                </section>
+              );
+            })}
+          </ScrollArea>
+        </div>
+      }
+      footerElements={
+        <>
+          <Button variant='ghosted-white' className={style.apart} onClick={onStartEmpty}>
+            Start from an empty automation
+          </Button>
+          <Button onClick={onClose}>Cancel</Button>
+        </>
+      }
+    />
+  );
+}
+
+interface RecipeSetupProps {
+  recipe: AutomationRecipe;
+  onClose: () => void;
+  onBack: () => void;
+  onCreated: (automation: Automation) => void;
+}
+
+function RecipeSetup({ recipe, onClose, onBack, onCreated }: RecipeSetupProps) {
+  const [values, setValues] = useState<RecipeValues>(() => defaultValues(recipe));
+  const [isCreating, setIsCreating] = useState(false);
+  const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  const automation = recipe.build(values);
+  const isComplete = recipe.params.every(({ name }) => values[name]?.trim());
+
+  const setValue = (name: string, value: string) => setValues((prev) => ({ ...prev, [name]: value }));
+
+  const handleCreate = async () => {
+    setError(null);
+    setIsCreating(true);
+    try {
+      // the same two steps the automation form takes when it saves a new automation:
+      // the server generates the id, so the automation has to exist before a trigger can point at it
+      const created = await addAutomation(automation);
+      for (const cycle of recipe.triggers) {
+        await addTrigger({
+          title: makeTriggerTitle(automation.title, cycle),
+          trigger: cycle,
+          automationId: created.id,
+        });
+      }
+      onCreated(created);
+    } catch (error) {
+      // a half created automation is visible in the list and flagged there, so say what
+      // happened and let the user finish it in the form rather than undoing their work
+      setError(maybeAxiosError(error));
+    } finally {
+      setIsCreating(false);
+    }
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <Modal
+      isOpen
+      onClose={onClose}
+      showBackdrop
+      showCloseButton
+      size='compact'
+      title={recipe.title}
+      bodyElements={
+        <div className={style.setup}>
+          <p className={style.setupDescription}>{recipe.description}</p>
+
+          <dl className={style.summary}>
+            <dt>Runs on</dt>
+            <dd>
+              {recipe.triggers.map((cycle) => (
+                <Tag key={cycle}>{getLifecycleLabel(cycle)}</Tag>
+              ))}
+            </dd>
+            <dt>Sends</dt>
+            <dd>
+              {summariseOutputs(automation.outputs).map(({ type, label, count }) => (
+                <Tag key={type}>{count > 1 ? `${label} ×${count}` : label}</Tag>
+              ))}
+            </dd>
+          </dl>
+
+          {recipe.params.length > 0 && (
+            <div className={style.fields}>
+              {recipe.params.map((param) => (
+                <label key={param.name} className={cx([style.field, param.wide && style.wide])}>
+                  {param.label}
+                  {param.type === 'choice' ? (
+                    <Select
+                      value={values[param.name]}
+                      onValueChange={(value: string | null) => {
+                        if (value === null) return;
+                        setValue(param.name, value);
+                      }}
+                      options={param.options ?? []}
+                      aria-label={param.label}
+                      fluid
+                    />
+                  ) : (
+                    <Input
+                      type={param.type === 'number' ? 'number' : 'text'}
+                      value={values[param.name]}
+                      onChange={(event) => setValue(param.name, event.target.value)}
+                      fluid
+                    />
+                  )}
+                  {param.hint && <span className={style.hint}>{param.hint}</span>}
+                </label>
+              ))}
+            </div>
+          )}
+
+          <Panel.Description>
+            {needsTarget(recipe)
+              ? 'Created as a normal automation. Nothing is sent until an event triggers it.'
+              : 'Created as a normal automation, which you can edit or delete like any other.'}
+          </Panel.Description>
+        </div>
+      }
+      footerElements={
+        <>
+          {error && <Panel.Error>{error}</Panel.Error>}
+          <Button variant='ghosted-white' className={style.apart} onClick={onBack} disabled={isCreating}>
+            <IoArrowBack /> All recipes
+          </Button>
+          <Button onClick={onClose} disabled={isCreating}>
+            Cancel
+          </Button>
+          <Button variant='primary' onClick={handleCreate} loading={isCreating} disabled={!isComplete}>
+            Create automation <IoAdd />
+          </Button>
+        </>
+      }
+    />
+  );
+}
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import { AutomationDTO, OntimeAction, OntimeActionKey, SecondarySource } from 'ontime-types';
-import { PropsWithChildren, useState } from 'react';
+import { useState } from 'react';
 import { UseFormRegister, UseFormSetValue, UseFormWatch } from 'react-hook-form';

 import Input from '../../../../common/components/input/input/Input';
 import Select from '../../../../common/components/select/Select';
 import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+import type { OutputErrors } from './automationUtils';
 import TemplateInput from './template-input/TemplateInput';

 import style from './AutomationForm.module.scss';
@@ -12,13 +13,7 @@ import style from './AutomationForm.module.scss';
 interface OntimeActionFormProps {
  index: number;
  register: UseFormRegister<AutomationDTO>;
-  rowErrors?: {
-    action?: { message?: string };
-    time?: { message?: string };
-    text?: { message?: string };
-    visible?: { message?: string };
-    secondarySource?: { message?: string };
-  };
+  rowErrors?: OutputErrors;
  value: OntimeAction['action'];
  watch: UseFormWatch<AutomationDTO>;
  setValue: UseFormSetValue<AutomationDTO>;
@@ -30,9 +25,8 @@ export default function OntimeActionForm({
  setValue,
  rowErrors,
  value,
-  children,
  watch,
-}: PropsWithChildren<OntimeActionFormProps>) {
+}: OntimeActionFormProps) {
  const [selectedAction, setSelectedAction] = useState<string>(value);

  const handleSetAction = (value: OntimeActionKey) => {
@@ -41,7 +35,7 @@ export default function OntimeActionForm({
  };

  return (
-    <div className={style.actionSection}>
+    <>
      <label>
        Action
        <Select
@@ -95,7 +89,7 @@ export default function OntimeActionForm({

      {selectedAction === 'message-set' && (
        <>
-          <label>
+          <label className={style.spanFull}>
            Text (leave empty for no change)
            <TemplateInput
              {...register(`outputs.${index}.text`)}
@@ -127,7 +121,7 @@ export default function OntimeActionForm({

      {selectedAction === 'message-secondary' && (
        <>
-          <label>
+          <label className={style.spanFull}>
            Text (leave empty for no change)
            <TemplateInput
              {...register(`outputs.${index}.text`)}
@@ -169,8 +163,6 @@ export default function OntimeActionForm({
          </label>
        </>
      )}
-
-      <div className={style.test}>{children}</div>
-    </div>
+    </>
  );
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import type { AutomationDTO, OSCOutput } from 'ontime-types';
+import type { UseFormRegister } from 'react-hook-form';
+
+import Input from '../../../../common/components/input/input/Input';
+import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+import type { OutputErrors } from './automationUtils';
+import TemplateInput from './template-input/TemplateInput';
+
+import style from './AutomationForm.module.scss';
+
+interface OscOutputFormProps {
+  index: number;
+  output: OSCOutput;
+  register: UseFormRegister<AutomationDTO>;
+  rowErrors?: OutputErrors;
+}
+
+export default function OscOutputForm({ index, output, register, rowErrors }: OscOutputFormProps) {
+  return (
+    <>
+      <label>
+        Target IP
+        <Input
+          {...register(`outputs.${index}.targetIP`, { required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' } })}
+          fluid
+          placeholder='127.0.0.1'
+        />
+        <Panel.Error>{rowErrors?.targetIP?.message}</Panel.Error>
+      </label>
+      <label>
+        Target Port
+        <Input
+          {...register(`outputs.${index}.targetPort`, {
+            required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' },
+            setValueAs: (value) => (value === '' ? 0 : Number(value)),
+            max: { value: 65535, message: 'Port must be within range 1024 - 65535' },
+            min: { value: 1024, message: 'Port must be within range 1024 - 65535' },
+          })}
+          fluid
+          type='number'
+          maxLength={5}
+          placeholder='8000'
+        />
+        <Panel.Error>{rowErrors?.targetPort?.message}</Panel.Error>
+      </label>
+      <label className={style.spanFull}>
+        Address
+        <TemplateInput
+          {...register(`outputs.${index}.address`)}
+          value={output.address}
+          fluid
+          placeholder='/cue/start'
+        />
+        <Panel.Error>{rowErrors?.address?.message}</Panel.Error>
+      </label>
+      <label className={style.spanFull}>
+        Arguments
+        <TemplateInput {...register(`outputs.${index}.args`)} value={output.args} fluid placeholder='1' />
+        <Panel.Error>{rowErrors?.args?.message}</Panel.Error>
+      </label>
+    </>
+  );
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import type { ReactNode } from 'react';
+import { IoCheckmark, IoTrash } from 'react-icons/io5';
+
+import Button from '../../../../common/components/buttons/Button';
+import IconButton from '../../../../common/components/buttons/IconButton';
+import Tag from '../../../../common/components/tag/Tag';
+import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+
+import style from './AutomationForm.module.scss';
+
+export type TestState = { status: 'sending' | 'ok' | 'error'; message?: string };
+
+interface OutputCardProps {
+  label: string;
+  kindClass?: string;
+  summary?: string;
+  testState?: TestState;
+  onTest: () => void;
+  onDelete: () => void;
+  children: ReactNode;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Shared chrome for every output kind: the type tag and the actions live in the header,
+ * so they stop competing with the form fields for grid columns
+ */
+export default function OutputCard({
+  label,
+  kindClass,
+  summary,
+  testState,
+  onTest,
+  onDelete,
+  children,
+}: OutputCardProps) {
+  return (
+    <div className={style.card}>
+      <div className={style.cardHeader}>
+        <Tag className={kindClass}>{label}</Tag>
+        <span className={style.cardSummary}>{summary}</span>
+        {testState?.status === 'ok' && (
+          <span className={style.testOk}>
+            <IoCheckmark />
+            {testState.message}
+          </span>
+        )}
+        <Button variant='ghosted-white' onClick={onTest} loading={testState?.status === 'sending'}>
+          Test
+        </Button>
+        <IconButton aria-label='Delete output' variant='ghosted-destructive' onClick={onDelete}>
+          <IoTrash />
+        </IconButton>
+      </div>
+      {testState?.status === 'error' && <Panel.Error className={style.testError}>{testState.message}</Panel.Error>}
+      <div className={style.cardBody}>{children}</div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { NormalisedAutomation, TimerLifeCycle, TriggerDTO } from 'ontime-types';
+import { NormalisedAutomation, TimerLifeCycle, Trigger, TriggerDTO } from 'ontime-types';
 import { useEffect } from 'react';
 import { useForm } from 'react-hook-form';

@@ -6,30 +6,21 @@ import { addTrigger, editTrigger } from '../../../../common/api/automation';
 import { maybeAxiosError } from '../../../../common/api/utils';
 import Button from '../../../../common/components/buttons/Button';
 import Input from '../../../../common/components/input/input/Input';
+import Modal from '../../../../common/components/modal/Modal';
 import Select from '../../../../common/components/select/Select';
-import { preventEscape } from '../../../../common/utils/keyEvent';
 import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
 import { cycles } from './automationUtils';

+const formId = 'trigger-form';
+
 interface TriggerFormProps {
  automations: NormalisedAutomation;
-  initialId?: string;
-  initialTitle?: string;
-  initialAutomationId?: string;
-  initialTrigger?: TimerLifeCycle;
+  trigger: Trigger | null;
  onCancel: () => void;
  postSubmit: () => void;
 }

-export default function TriggerForm({
-  automations,
-  initialId,
-  initialTitle,
-  initialAutomationId,
-  initialTrigger,
-  onCancel,
-  postSubmit,
-}: TriggerFormProps) {
+export default function TriggerForm({ automations, trigger, onCancel, postSubmit }: TriggerFormProps) {
  const {
    handleSubmit,
    register,
@@ -40,9 +31,9 @@ export default function TriggerForm({
    formState: { errors, isSubmitting, isValid, isDirty },
  } = useForm<TriggerDTO>({
    defaultValues: {
-      title: initialTitle,
-      trigger: initialTrigger ?? (cycles[0].value as TimerLifeCycle | undefined),
-      automationId: initialAutomationId ?? automations?.[Object.keys(automations)[0]]?.id,
+      title: trigger?.title,
+      trigger: trigger?.trigger ?? (cycles[0].value as TimerLifeCycle | undefined),
+      automationId: trigger?.automationId ?? automations?.[Object.keys(automations)[0]]?.id,
    },
    resetOptions: {
      keepDirtyValues: true,
@@ -55,10 +46,9 @@ export default function TriggerForm({
  }, [setFocus]);

  const onSubmit = async (values: TriggerDTO) => {
-    // if we were passed an ID we are editing a Trigger
-    if (initialId) {
+    if (trigger) {
      try {
-        await editTrigger(initialId, { id: initialId, ...values });
+        await editTrigger(trigger.id, { id: trigger.id, ...values });
        postSubmit();
      } catch (error) {
        setError('root', { message: `Failed to save changes to trigger ${maybeAxiosError(error)}` });
@@ -85,56 +75,63 @@ export default function TriggerForm({
  const canSubmit = isDirty && isValid;

  return (
-    <Panel.Indent
-      as='form'
-      name='trigger-form'
-      onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)}
-      onKeyDown={(event) => preventEscape(event, onCancel)}
-    >
-      <Panel.SubHeader>{initialId ? 'Edit trigger' : 'Create trigger'}</Panel.SubHeader>
-      <label>
-        Title
-        <Input
-          {...register('title', { required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' } })}
-          fluid
-          defaultValue={initialTitle}
-        />
-        <Panel.Error>{errors.title?.message}</Panel.Error>
-      </label>
-      <label>
-        Lifecycle trigger
-        <Select
-          value={watch('trigger')}
-          onValueChange={(value) => {
-            if (value === null) return;
-            setValue('trigger', value as TimerLifeCycle, { shouldDirty: true });
-          }}
-          options={cycles.map((cycle) => ({ value: cycle.value, label: cycle.label }))}
-          aria-label='Lifecycle trigger'
-        />
-        <Panel.Error>{errors.trigger?.message}</Panel.Error>
-      </label>
-      <label>
-        Automation title
-        <Select
-          value={watch('automationId')}
-          onValueChange={(value: string | null) => {
-            if (value === null) return;
-            setValue('automationId', value, { shouldDirty: true });
-          }}
-          options={automationSelect}
-          aria-label='Automation title'
-        />
-        <Panel.Error>{errors.automationId?.message}</Panel.Error>
-      </label>
-      <Panel.InlineElements align='end'>
-        <Button disabled={isSubmitting} onClick={onCancel}>
-          Cancel
-        </Button>
-        <Button type='submit' variant='primary' disabled={!canSubmit} loading={isSubmitting}>
-          Save
-        </Button>
-      </Panel.InlineElements>
-    </Panel.Indent>
+    <Modal
+      isOpen
+      onClose={onCancel}
+      showBackdrop
+      showCloseButton
+      size='compact'
+      title={trigger ? 'Edit trigger' : 'Create trigger'}
+      bodyElements={
+        <form id={formId} onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)}>
+          <label>
+            Title
+            <Input
+              {...register('title', { required: { value: true, message: 'Required field' } })}
+              fluid
+              defaultValue={trigger?.title}
+            />
+            <Panel.Error>{errors.title?.message}</Panel.Error>
+          </label>
+          <label>
+            Lifecycle trigger
+            <Select
+              value={watch('trigger')}
+              onValueChange={(value) => {
+                if (value === null) return;
+                setValue('trigger', value as TimerLifeCycle, { shouldDirty: true });
+              }}
+              options={cycles.map((cycle) => ({ value: cycle.value, label: cycle.label }))}
+              aria-label='Lifecycle trigger'
+            />
+            <Panel.Error>{errors.trigger?.message}</Panel.Error>
+          </label>
+          <label>
+            Automation title
+            <Select
+              value={watch('automationId')}
+              onValueChange={(value: string | null) => {
+                if (value === null) return;
+                setValue('automationId', value, { shouldDirty: true });
+              }}
+              options={automationSelect}
+              aria-label='Automation title'
+            />
+            <Panel.Error>{errors.automationId?.message}</Panel.Error>
+          </label>
+        </form>
+      }
+      footerElements={
+        <>
+          {errors.root && <Panel.Error>{errors.root.message}</Panel.Error>}
+          <Button disabled={isSubmitting} onClick={onCancel}>
+            Cancel
+          </Button>
+          <Button type='submit' form={formId} variant='primary' disabled={!canSubmit} loading={isSubmitting}>
+            Save
+          </Button>
+        </>
+      }
+    />
  );
 }
@@ -5,27 +5,37 @@ import { IoAdd } from 'react-icons/io5';
 import { deleteTrigger } from '../../../../common/api/automation';
 import { maybeAxiosError } from '../../../../common/api/utils';
 import Button from '../../../../common/components/buttons/Button';
-import Info from '../../../../common/components/info/Info';
 import useAutomationSettings from '../../../../common/hooks-query/useAutomationSettings';
 import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
+import useAppSettingsNavigation from '../../useAppSettingsNavigation';
 import { checkDuplicates } from './automationUtils';
-import AutomationForm from './TriggerForm';
+import TriggerForm from './TriggerForm';
 import TriggersListItem from './TriggersListItem';

+type FormState = {
+  isOpen: boolean;
+  trigger?: Trigger;
+};
+
 interface TriggersListProps {
  triggers: Trigger[];
  automations: NormalisedAutomation;
-  enabledAutomations?: boolean;
+  isLoading: boolean;
 }

-export default function TriggersList(props: TriggersListProps) {
-  const { triggers, automations, enabledAutomations } = props;
-  const [showForm, setShowForm] = useState(false);
+export default function TriggersList({ triggers, automations, isLoading }: TriggersListProps) {
+  const [formState, setFormState] = useState<FormState>({ isOpen: false, trigger: undefined });
  const { refetch } = useAutomationSettings();
+  const { setLocation } = useAppSettingsNavigation();
  const [deleteError, setDeleteError] = useState<string | null>(null);

+  const openNewForm = () => setFormState({ isOpen: true });
+  const openEditForm = (trigger: Trigger) => setFormState({ isOpen: true, trigger });
+  const closeForm = () => setFormState({ isOpen: false, trigger: undefined });
+
  const handleDelete = async (id: string) => {
    try {
+      setDeleteError(null);
      await deleteTrigger(id);
    } catch (error) {
      setDeleteError(maybeAxiosError(error));
@@ -35,80 +45,110 @@ export default function TriggersList(props: TriggersListProps) {
  };

  const postSubmit = () => {
-    setShowForm(false);
+    closeForm();
    refetch();
  };

  const duplicates = useMemo(() => checkDuplicates(triggers), [triggers]);
+  const orphans = useMemo(
+    () => triggers.filter((trigger) => !Object.hasOwn(automations, trigger.automationId)).length,
+    [triggers, automations],
+  );

  // there is no point letting user creating a trigger if there are no automations
  const canAdd = Object.keys(automations).length > 0;

  return (
-    <Panel.Card>
-      <Panel.SubHeader>
-        Manage triggers
-        <Button type='submit' form='trigger-form' disabled={!canAdd} loading={false} onClick={() => setShowForm(true)}>
-          New <IoAdd />
-        </Button>
-      </Panel.SubHeader>
-      <Panel.Divider />
-      <Panel.Section>
-        {enabledAutomations === false && (
-          <Info>
-            Automations are disabled. You can still manage triggers here, but they will not run until enabled.
-          </Info>
+    <Panel.Section>
+      <Panel.Card>
+        {formState.isOpen && (
+          <TriggerForm
+            automations={automations}
+            trigger={formState.trigger ?? null}
+            onCancel={closeForm}
+            postSubmit={postSubmit}
+          />
        )}
-        {duplicates && (
-          <Panel.Error>
-            You have created multiple links between the same trigger and automation which can performance issues.
-          </Panel.Error>
-        )}
-        {showForm && (
-          <AutomationForm automations={automations} onCancel={() => setShowForm(false)} postSubmit={postSubmit} />
-        )}
-        <Panel.Table>
-          <thead>
-            <tr>
-              <th style={{ width: '35%' }}>Title</th>
-              <th style={{ width: '25%' }}>Lifecycle trigger</th>
-              <th style={{ width: '25%' }}>Automation</th>
-              <th />
-            </tr>
-          </thead>
-          <tbody>
-            {!showForm && triggers.length === 0 && (
-              <Panel.TableEmpty
-                label='Create a trigger to run an automation'
-                handleClick={canAdd ? () => setShowForm(true) : undefined}
-              />
-            )}
-            {triggers.map((trigger, index) => {
-              return (
-                <Fragment key={trigger.id}>
-                  <TriggersListItem
-                    automations={automations}
-                    id={trigger.id}
-                    title={trigger.title}
-                    trigger={trigger.trigger}
-                    automationId={trigger.automationId}
-                    duplicate={duplicates?.includes(index)}
-                    handleDelete={() => handleDelete(trigger.id)}
-                    postSubmit={postSubmit}
-                  />
-                  {deleteError && (
-                    <tr>
-                      <td colSpan={5}>
-                        <Panel.Error>{deleteError}</Panel.Error>
-                      </td>
-                    </tr>
-                  )}
-                </Fragment>
-              );
-            })}
-          </tbody>
-        </Panel.Table>
-      </Panel.Section>
-    </Panel.Card>
+        <Panel.SubHeader>
+          Global triggers
+          <Button disabled={!canAdd} onClick={openNewForm}>
+            New <IoAdd />
+          </Button>
+        </Panel.SubHeader>
+        <Panel.Divider />
+        <Panel.Section>
+          <Panel.Description>
+            Triggers are managed from the automation itself. This list is for naming them, or for pointing several
+            differently named triggers at the same automation.
+          </Panel.Description>
+          {duplicates && (
+            <Panel.Error>
+              You have created multiple links between the same trigger and automation. Duplicate combinations will only
+              fire once per lifecycle event.
+            </Panel.Error>
+          )}
+          {orphans > 0 && (
+            <Panel.Error>
+              {orphans === 1
+                ? '1 trigger points at an automation that no longer exists and will never run.'
+                : `${orphans} triggers point at automations that no longer exist and will never run.`}
+            </Panel.Error>
+          )}
+          <Panel.Table>
+            <thead>
+              <tr>
+                <th style={{ width: '35%' }}>Title</th>
+                <th style={{ width: '25%' }}>Lifecycle trigger</th>
+                <th style={{ width: '25%' }}>Automation</th>
+                <th />
+              </tr>
+            </thead>
+            <tbody>
+              {!isLoading && triggers.length === 0 && (
+                <Panel.TableEmpty
+                  title='No triggers yet'
+                  description={
+                    canAdd
+                      ? 'Triggers run an automation at a given point of the timer lifecycle. The usual way to create one is to pick the lifecycles in the automation itself.'
+                      : 'Create an automation first, then pick the lifecycles it should run on.'
+                  }
+                  action={
+                    canAdd ? (
+                      <Button variant='primary' onClick={openNewForm}>
+                        Create trigger <IoAdd />
+                      </Button>
+                    ) : (
+                      <Button variant='primary' onClick={() => setLocation('automation__automations')}>
+                        Go to automations
+                      </Button>
+                    )
+                  }
+                />
+              )}
+              {triggers.map((trigger, index) => {
+                return (
+                  <Fragment key={trigger.id}>
+                    <TriggersListItem
+                      automations={automations}
+                      trigger={trigger}
+                      duplicate={duplicates?.includes(index)}
+                      handleEdit={() => openEditForm(trigger)}
+                      handleDelete={() => handleDelete(trigger.id)}
+                    />
+                  </Fragment>
+                );
+              })}
+              {deleteError && (
+                <tr>
+                  <td colSpan={5}>
+                    <Panel.Error>{deleteError}</Panel.Error>
+                  </td>
+                </tr>
+              )}
+            </tbody>
+          </Panel.Table>
+        </Panel.Section>
+      </Panel.Card>
+    </Panel.Section>
  );
 }
@@ -1,48 +1,21 @@
-import { NormalisedAutomation, TimerLifeCycle } from 'ontime-types';
-import { useState } from 'react';
+import { NormalisedAutomation, Trigger } from 'ontime-types';
 import { IoPencil, IoTrash, IoWarningOutline } from 'react-icons/io5';

 import IconButton from '../../../../common/components/buttons/IconButton';
 import Tag from '../../../../common/components/tag/Tag';
 import * as Panel from '../../panel-utils/PanelUtils';
 import { cycles } from './automationUtils';
-import AutomationForm from './TriggerForm';

 interface TriggersListItemProps {
  automations: NormalisedAutomation;
-  id: string;
-  title: string;
-  trigger: TimerLifeCycle;
-  automationId: string;
+  trigger: Trigger;
  duplicate?: boolean;
+  handleEdit: () => void;
  handleDelete: () => void;
-  postSubmit: () => void;
 }

 export default function TriggersListItem(props: TriggersListItemProps) {
-  const { automations, id, title, trigger, automationId, duplicate, handleDelete, postSubmit } = props;
-  const [isEditing, setIsEditing] = useState(false);
-
-  if (isEditing) {
-    return (
-      <tr>
-        <td colSpan={99}>
-          <AutomationForm
-            automations={automations}
-            initialId={id}
-            initialTitle={title}
-            initialTrigger={trigger}
-            initialAutomationId={automationId}
-            onCancel={() => setIsEditing(false)}
-            postSubmit={() => {
-              setIsEditing(false);
-              postSubmit();
-            }}
-          />
-        </td>
-      </tr>
-    );
-  }
+  const { automations, trigger, duplicate, handleEdit, handleDelete } = props;

  return (
    <tr data-warn={duplicate}>
@@ -52,16 +25,21 @@ export default function TriggersListItem(props: TriggersListItemProps) {
            color='#FFBC56' // $orange-500
          />
        )}
-        {title}
+        {trigger.title}
      </Panel.InlineElements>
      <td>
-        <Tag>{cycles.find((cycle) => cycle.value === trigger)?.label}</Tag>
+        <Tag>{cycles.find((cycle) => cycle.value === trigger.trigger)?.label}</Tag>
      </td>
      <td>
-        <Tag>{automations?.[automationId]?.title}</Tag>
+        {/* a trigger can outlive the automation it points at, say after a partial project import */}
+        {automations?.[trigger.automationId] ? (
+          <Tag>{automations[trigger.automationId].title}</Tag>
+        ) : (
+          <Tag variant='warning'>Missing automation</Tag>
+        )}
      </td>
      <Panel.InlineElements align='end' relation='inner' as='td'>
-        <IconButton variant='ghosted-white' aria-label='Edit entry' onClick={() => setIsEditing(true)}>
+        <IconButton variant='ghosted-white' aria-label='Edit entry' onClick={handleEdit}>
          <IoPencil />
        </IconButton>
        <IconButton variant='ghosted-destructive' aria-label='Delete entry' onClick={handleDelete}>
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+import { isHTTPOutput, isOSCOutput, isOntimeAction, timerLifecycleValues } from 'ontime-types';
+
+import { automationRecipes, defaultValues, needsTarget, recipeCategoryOrder } from '../automationRecipes';
+import { operators } from '../automationUtils';
+
+/**
+ * Recipes are shipped as constants but created through the same endpoint as a hand written
+ * automation. These assertions stand in for the server side validation, so a recipe cannot
+ * silently rot into something that 400s when the user presses create.
+ */
+describe('automationRecipes', () => {
+  const built = automationRecipes.map((recipe) => ({ recipe, automation: recipe.build(defaultValues(recipe)) }));
+
+  it('has unique ids', () => {
+    const ids = automationRecipes.map(({ id }) => id);
+    expect(new Set(ids).size).toBe(ids.length);
+  });
+
+  it('only uses categories the picker knows how to render', () => {
+    for (const { recipe } of built) {
+      expect(recipeCategoryOrder).toContain(recipe.category);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('binds every recipe to at least one valid lifecycle', () => {
+    for (const { recipe } of built) {
+      expect(recipe.triggers.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      for (const cycle of recipe.triggers) {
+        expect(timerLifecycleValues).toContain(cycle);
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('builds a titled automation with something to send, from its own defaults', () => {
+    for (const { automation } of built) {
+      expect(automation.title).not.toBe('');
+      expect(automation.outputs.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+
+      for (const output of automation.outputs) {
+        expect(isOSCOutput(output) || isHTTPOutput(output) || isOntimeAction(output)).toBe(true);
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('gives every choice parameter options, and a default that is one of them', () => {
+    const choices = automationRecipes.flatMap(({ params }) => params.filter(({ type }) => type === 'choice'));
+    expect(choices.filter(({ options }) => !options?.length)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(choices.filter(({ options, defaultValue }) => !options?.some((o) => o.value === defaultValue))).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('reads every parameter it declares', () => {
+    // a param the builder ignores is a field the user fills in for nothing, and a typo in
+    // either half would put the literal 'undefined' inside a URL
+    for (const { recipe } of built) {
+      for (const param of recipe.params) {
+        // a choice can only take one of its own options, so probe with the last one
+        if (param.type === 'choice') {
+          const last = param.options?.at(-1)?.value ?? '';
+          expect(JSON.stringify(recipe.build({ ...defaultValues(recipe), [param.name]: last }))).toContain(last);
+          continue;
+        }
+        const marker = param.type === 'number' ? '4242' : 'ontime-probe';
+        const probed = { ...defaultValues(recipe), [param.name]: marker };
+        expect(JSON.stringify(recipe.build(probed))).toContain(marker);
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('only uses filter operators the server accepts', () => {
+    const allowed = operators.map(({ value }) => value);
+    for (const { automation } of built) {
+      for (const filter of automation.filters) {
+        expect(allowed).toContain(filter.operator);
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('defaults every external target to this machine', () => {
+    const outputs = built.flatMap(({ automation }) => automation.outputs);
+    const osc = outputs.filter(isOSCOutput);
+    const http = outputs.filter(isHTTPOutput);
+
+    // filtering rather than asserting in a branch, so a failure names the offending recipe
+    expect(osc.filter(({ targetIP }) => targetIP !== '127.0.0.1')).toEqual([]);
+    expect(osc.filter(({ targetPort }) => !Number.isFinite(targetPort))).toEqual([]);
+    expect(http.filter(({ url }) => !url.startsWith('http://127.0.0.1'))).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('flags the recipes that reach outside Ontime', () => {
+    for (const { recipe, automation } of built) {
+      const reachesOut = automation.outputs.some((output) => isOSCOutput(output) || isHTTPOutput(output));
+      expect(needsTarget(recipe)).toBe(reachesOut);
+    }
+  });
+
+  /** the outputs a recipe builds from the given answers, as plain JSON to assert against */
+  function buildWith(id: string, values: Record<string, string>) {
+    const recipe = automationRecipes.find((candidate) => candidate.id === id);
+    return JSON.stringify(recipe?.build(values).outputs);
+  }
+
+  it('tolerates a URL that already carries a query', () => {
+    expect(buildWith('webhook-event-title', { url: 'http://127.0.0.1:3000/now?source=ontime' })).toContain(
+      '/now?source=ontime&title=',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('tolerates an address pasted with a trailing slash', () => {
+    expect(
+      buildWith('companion-press', { host: 'http://127.0.0.1:8888/', page: '1', row: '0', column: '0' }),
+    ).toContain('http://127.0.0.1:8888/api/location/1/0/0/press');
+  });
+});
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { TimerLifeCycle, Trigger } from 'ontime-types';

-import { checkDuplicates } from '../automationUtils';
+import { checkDuplicates, cycles, groupTriggersByAutomation, operators } from '../automationUtils';

 describe('checkDuplicates', () => {
  it('should return undefined if there are no duplicates', () => {
@@ -22,3 +22,43 @@ describe('checkDuplicates', () => {
    expect(checkDuplicates(triggers)).toStrictEqual([2]);
  });
 });
+
+describe('groupTriggersByAutomation', () => {
+  it('returns an empty object when there are no triggers', () => {
+    expect(groupTriggersByAutomation([])).toEqual({});
+  });
+
+  it('collects the lifecycles each automation is bound to', () => {
+    const triggers: Trigger[] = [
+      { id: '1', title: 'First', trigger: TimerLifeCycle.onStart, automationId: 'a' },
+      { id: '2', title: 'Second', trigger: TimerLifeCycle.onFinish, automationId: 'a' },
+      { id: '3', title: 'Third', trigger: TimerLifeCycle.onLoad, automationId: 'b' },
+    ];
+
+    expect(groupTriggersByAutomation(triggers)).toEqual({
+      a: [TimerLifeCycle.onStart, TimerLifeCycle.onFinish],
+      b: [TimerLifeCycle.onLoad],
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('collapses duplicates, the runtime only fires an automation once per lifecycle', () => {
+    const triggers: Trigger[] = [
+      { id: '1', title: 'First', trigger: TimerLifeCycle.onStart, automationId: 'a' },
+      { id: '2', title: 'Second', trigger: TimerLifeCycle.onStart, automationId: 'a' },
+    ];
+
+    expect(groupTriggersByAutomation(triggers)).toEqual({ a: [TimerLifeCycle.onStart] });
+  });
+});
+
+describe('operators', () => {
+  it('does not offer not_contains, which the server validation rejects', () => {
+    expect(operators.map(({ value }) => value)).not.toContain('not_contains');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('cycles', () => {
+  it('uses the shared user facing labels', () => {
+    expect(cycles.find(({ value }) => value === 'onStart')?.label).toBe('On Start');
+  });
+});
@@ -0,0 +1,282 @@
+import type { AutomationDTO, TimerLifeCycle } from 'ontime-types';
+import { TimerLifeCycle as Cycle } from 'ontime-types';
+
+export type RecipeCategory = 'ontime' | 'playback' | 'video' | 'messaging';
+
+export const recipeCategoryLabels: Record<RecipeCategory, string> = {
+  ontime: 'Ontime automations',
+  playback: 'Playback and cue systems',
+  video: 'Video and streaming',
+  messaging: 'Webhooks and messaging',
+};
+
+/** presentation order, empty categories are not rendered */
+export const recipeCategoryOrder: RecipeCategory[] = ['ontime', 'playback', 'video', 'messaging'];
+
+export type RecipeParam = {
+  name: string;
+  label: string;
+  /** one line under the field, for anything the label cannot say */
+  hint?: string;
+  type?: 'text' | 'number' | 'choice';
+  /** required by 'choice', which renders a select rather than a free field */
+  options?: { value: string; label: string }[];
+  /** takes a whole row: addresses and free text read badly in a narrow column */
+  wide?: boolean;
+  /** every default points at this machine, so a recipe cannot reach a venue network unasked */
+  defaultValue: string;
+};
+
+export type RecipeValues = Record<string, string>;
+
+export type AutomationRecipe = {
+  /** stable, client only. Never persisted */
+  id: string;
+  title: string;
+  /** one line, plain language: what this does for the user */
+  description: string;
+  category: RecipeCategory;
+  /** extra search terms: other names for the software, its protocol, the job it does */
+  keywords?: string[];
+  /** what the dialog asks for. Empty when the recipe needs nothing */
+  params: RecipeParam[];
+  triggers: TimerLifeCycle[];
+  /** typed, so the compiler catches a recipe drifting from the automation schema */
+  build: (values: RecipeValues) => AutomationDTO;
+};
+
+const auxTimers = [
+  { value: '1', label: 'Aux timer 1' },
+  { value: '2', label: 'Aux timer 2' },
+  { value: '3', label: 'Aux timer 3' },
+];
+
+type AuxNumber = '1' | '2' | '3';
+
+/**
+ * Action keys are a union the compiler checks against the automation schema, so the aux
+ * number is resolved through maps rather than string interpolation. Anything unexpected
+ * falls back to the first timer instead of building an action the server would reject.
+ */
+function toAux(value: string): AuxNumber {
+  return value === '2' || value === '3' ? value : '1';
+}
+
+const auxSet = { 1: 'aux1-set', 2: 'aux2-set', 3: 'aux3-set' } as const;
+const auxStart = { 1: 'aux1-start', 2: 'aux2-start', 3: 'aux3-start' } as const;
+const auxStop = { 1: 'aux1-stop', 2: 'aux2-stop', 3: 'aux3-stop' } as const;
+const auxSource = { 1: 'aux1', 2: 'aux2', 3: 'aux3' } as const;
+
+/** a user pasting an address is as likely to include the trailing slash as not */
+function origin(value: string): string {
+  return value.trim().replace(/\/+$/, '');
+}
+
+/** the recipe cannot know whether the user's URL already carries a query */
+function withQuery(url: string, query: string): string {
+  const trimmed = url.trim();
+  return trimmed.includes('?') ? `${trimmed}&${query}` : `${trimmed}?${query}`;
+}
+
+export const automationRecipes: AutomationRecipe[] = [
+  {
+    id: 'ontime-aux-timer',
+    title: 'Run an aux timer with the event',
+    description: 'Sets an aux timer and starts it whenever an event starts.',
+    category: 'ontime',
+    keywords: ['countdown', 'stage timer', 'speaker'],
+    params: [
+      { name: 'aux', label: 'Which timer', type: 'choice', options: auxTimers, defaultValue: '1' },
+      { name: 'duration', label: 'Duration', hint: 'hh:mm:ss', defaultValue: '00:05:00' },
+    ],
+    triggers: [Cycle.onStart],
+    build: ({ aux, duration }) => ({
+      title: `Run Aux Timer ${toAux(aux)} with the event`,
+      filterRule: 'all',
+      filters: [],
+      outputs: [
+        { type: 'ontime', action: auxSet[toAux(aux)], time: duration.trim() },
+        { type: 'ontime', action: auxStart[toAux(aux)] },
+      ],
+    }),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'ontime-aux-stop',
+    title: 'Stop the aux timer when the event ends',
+    description: 'Stops an aux timer on finish, so it does not keep running into the next event.',
+    category: 'ontime',
+    keywords: ['countdown', 'stage timer', 'reset'],
+    params: [{ name: 'aux', label: 'Which timer', type: 'choice', options: auxTimers, defaultValue: '1' }],
+    triggers: [Cycle.onFinish],
+    build: ({ aux }) => ({
+      title: `Stop Aux Timer ${toAux(aux)} on finish`,
+      filterRule: 'all',
+      filters: [],
+      outputs: [{ type: 'ontime', action: auxStop[toAux(aux)] }],
+    }),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'ontime-warn-stage',
+    title: 'Warn the stage when time runs low',
+    description: 'Shows a message on the stage timer as the running event enters its danger window.',
+    category: 'ontime',
+    keywords: ['message', 'danger', 'wrap up', 'presenter'],
+    params: [{ name: 'message', label: 'Message', wide: true, defaultValue: 'Please wrap up' }],
+    triggers: [Cycle.onDanger],
+    build: ({ message }) => ({
+      title: 'Warn the stage at danger',
+      filterRule: 'all',
+      filters: [],
+      outputs: [{ type: 'ontime', action: 'message-set', text: message, visible: true }],
+    }),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'ontime-clear-message',
+    title: 'Hide the stage message on finish',
+    description: 'Clears the stage message once the event finishes. Pairs with the warning above.',
+    category: 'ontime',
+    keywords: ['message', 'clear', 'presenter'],
+    params: [],
+    triggers: [Cycle.onFinish],
+    build: () => ({
+      title: 'Hide the stage message on finish',
+      filterRule: 'all',
+      filters: [],
+      outputs: [{ type: 'ontime', action: 'message-set', text: '', visible: false }],
+    }),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'ontime-secondary-message',
+    title: 'Show an aux timer beside the stage message',
+    description: 'Points the secondary field on the stage timer at an aux timer when an event loads.',
+    category: 'ontime',
+    keywords: ['message', 'secondary', 'stage', 'countdown'],
+    params: [{ name: 'aux', label: 'Which timer', type: 'choice', options: auxTimers, defaultValue: '1' }],
+    triggers: [Cycle.onLoad],
+    build: ({ aux }) => ({
+      title: `Show Aux Timer ${toAux(aux)} as the secondary message`,
+      filterRule: 'all',
+      filters: [],
+      outputs: [{ type: 'ontime', action: 'message-secondary', secondarySource: auxSource[toAux(aux)] }],
+    }),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'qlab-go',
+    title: 'QLab — fire the matching cue',
+    description: "Starts the QLab cue whose number matches the Ontime event's cue.",
+    category: 'playback',
+    keywords: ['osc', 'sound', 'audio', 'mac', 'figure 53'],
+    params: [
+      {
+        name: 'ip',
+        label: 'QLab computer',
+        hint: 'IP address of the machine running QLab',
+        wide: true,
+        defaultValue: '127.0.0.1',
+      },
+      { name: 'port', label: 'OSC port', type: 'number', hint: "QLab's default is 53000", defaultValue: '53000' },
+    ],
+    triggers: [Cycle.onStart],
+    build: ({ ip, port }) => ({
+      title: 'QLab GO on event start',
+      filterRule: 'all',
+      filters: [],
+      outputs: [
+        {
+          type: 'osc',
+          targetIP: ip.trim(),
+          targetPort: Number(port),
+          address: '/cue/{{eventNow.cue}}/start',
+          args: '',
+        },
+      ],
+    }),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'companion-press',
+    title: 'Companion — press a button',
+    description: 'Presses a Stream Deck button through the Companion HTTP API when an event starts.',
+    category: 'playback',
+    keywords: ['stream deck', 'bitfocus', 'obs', 'http', 'elgato'],
+    params: [
+      {
+        name: 'host',
+        label: 'Companion address',
+        hint: 'Where the Companion HTTP API is listening',
+        wide: true,
+        defaultValue: 'http://127.0.0.1:8888',
+      },
+      { name: 'page', label: 'Page', type: 'number', defaultValue: '1' },
+      { name: 'row', label: 'Row', type: 'number', defaultValue: '0' },
+      { name: 'column', label: 'Column', type: 'number', defaultValue: '0' },
+    ],
+    triggers: [Cycle.onStart],
+    build: ({ host, page, row, column }) => ({
+      title: 'Companion button press',
+      filterRule: 'all',
+      filters: [],
+      // Companion HTTP API: /api/location/<page>/<row>/<column>/press
+      outputs: [{ type: 'http', url: `${origin(host)}/api/location/${page}/${row}/${column}/press` }],
+    }),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'vmix-overlay-warning',
+    title: 'vMix — show an overlay on warning',
+    description: 'Triggers a vMix overlay through the web controller when the timer enters its warning window.',
+    category: 'video',
+    keywords: ['streaming', 'http', 'lower third', 'graphics'],
+    params: [
+      {
+        name: 'host',
+        label: 'vMix address',
+        hint: 'The vMix web controller',
+        wide: true,
+        defaultValue: 'http://127.0.0.1:8088',
+      },
+      { name: 'overlay', label: 'Overlay number', type: 'number', defaultValue: '1' },
+    ],
+    triggers: [Cycle.onWarning],
+    build: ({ host, overlay }) => ({
+      title: 'vMix overlay on warning',
+      filterRule: 'all',
+      filters: [],
+      outputs: [{ type: 'http', url: `${origin(host)}/api/?Function=OverlayInput${overlay}In` }],
+    }),
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'webhook-event-title',
+    title: 'Webhook — post the running event',
+    description: 'Calls any URL with the running event title, as a template string you can edit afterwards.',
+    category: 'messaging',
+    keywords: ['http', 'rest', 'api', 'integration', 'slack'],
+    params: [
+      {
+        name: 'url',
+        label: 'URL',
+        hint: 'The event title is added as a title parameter',
+        wide: true,
+        defaultValue: 'http://127.0.0.1:3000/now',
+      },
+    ],
+    triggers: [Cycle.onStart],
+    build: ({ url }) => ({
+      title: 'Webhook with the current event',
+      filterRule: 'all',
+      filters: [],
+      outputs: [{ type: 'http', url: withQuery(url, 'title={{eventNow.title}}') }],
+    }),
+  },
+];
+
+/** the values the dialog starts with, so a recipe can be created without touching a field */
+export function defaultValues(recipe: AutomationRecipe): RecipeValues {
+  return Object.fromEntries(recipe.params.map(({ name, defaultValue }) => [name, defaultValue]));
+}
+
+/**
+ * A recipe that only sends Ontime actions works the moment it is created.
+ * Anything else points at software we cannot locate for the user.
+ */
+export function needsTarget(recipe: AutomationRecipe): boolean {
+  return !recipe.build(defaultValues(recipe)).outputs.every((output) => output.type === 'ontime');
+}
@@ -1,4 +1,20 @@
-import { Automation, AutomationDTO, CustomFields, TimerLifeCycle, Trigger } from 'ontime-types';
+import { Automation, AutomationDTO, AutomationFilter, CustomFields, TimerLifeCycle, Trigger } from 'ontime-types';
+
+import { getLifecycleLabel, lifecycleLabels } from '../../../../common/constants/timerLifecycle';
+
+/**
+ * Names a trigger created from an automation's lifecycle picker.
+ * Shared so a trigger made by the form and one made by a recipe read the same in the list.
+ */
+export function makeTriggerTitle(automationTitle: string, cycle: TimerLifeCycle): string {
+  return `${automationTitle} — ${getLifecycleLabel(cycle)}`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Outputs are a union, so react-hook-form cannot resolve a field's error by name.
+ * Every output card knows which fields it registered, this just makes them reachable.
+ */
+export type OutputErrors = Partial<Record<string, { message?: string }>>;

 type CycleLabel = {
  id: number;
@@ -7,15 +23,29 @@ type CycleLabel = {
 };

 export const cycles: CycleLabel[] = [
-  { id: 1, label: 'On Load', value: 'onLoad' },
-  { id: 2, label: 'On Start', value: 'onStart' },
-  { id: 3, label: 'On Pause', value: 'onPause' },
-  { id: 4, label: 'On Stop', value: 'onStop' },
-  { id: 5, label: 'Every second', value: 'onClock' },
-  { id: 6, label: 'On Timer Update', value: 'onUpdate' },
-  { id: 7, label: 'On Finish', value: 'onFinish' },
-  { id: 8, label: 'On Warning', value: 'onWarning' },
-  { id: 9, label: 'On Danger', value: 'onDanger' },
+  { id: 1, label: lifecycleLabels.onLoad, value: 'onLoad' },
+  { id: 2, label: lifecycleLabels.onStart, value: 'onStart' },
+  { id: 3, label: lifecycleLabels.onPause, value: 'onPause' },
+  { id: 4, label: lifecycleLabels.onStop, value: 'onStop' },
+  { id: 5, label: lifecycleLabels.onClock, value: 'onClock' },
+  { id: 6, label: lifecycleLabels.onUpdate, value: 'onUpdate' },
+  { id: 7, label: lifecycleLabels.onFinish, value: 'onFinish' },
+  { id: 8, label: lifecycleLabels.onWarning, value: 'onWarning' },
+  { id: 9, label: lifecycleLabels.onDanger, value: 'onDanger' },
+];
+
+/**
+ * Filter operators offered in the automation form
+ * NOTE: not_contains is supported by the type and by the runtime, but the server
+ * validation list omits it, so an automation using it cannot be saved.
+ * It stays out of the UI until the server accepts it.
+ */
+export const operators: Array<{ value: AutomationFilter['operator']; label: string }> = [
+  { value: 'equals', label: 'equals' },
+  { value: 'not_equals', label: 'does not equal' },
+  { value: 'contains', label: 'contains' },
+  { value: 'greater_than', label: 'is greater than' },
+  { value: 'less_than', label: 'is less than' },
 ];

 /**
@@ -83,3 +113,23 @@ export function checkDuplicates(triggers: Trigger[]) {
  }
  return duplicates.length > 0 ? duplicates : undefined;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Groups the lifecycles each automation is bound to
+ * Used to show when an automation runs, and to highlight the ones that never will
+ */
+export function groupTriggersByAutomation(triggers: Trigger[]): Record<string, TimerLifeCycle[]> {
+  const grouped: Record<string, TimerLifeCycle[]> = {};
+
+  for (const trigger of triggers) {
+    if (!Object.hasOwn(grouped, trigger.automationId)) {
+      grouped[trigger.automationId] = [];
+    }
+    // the runtime fires an automation once per lifecycle, duplicates would be noise here
+    if (!grouped[trigger.automationId].includes(trigger.trigger)) {
+      grouped[trigger.automationId].push(trigger.trigger);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return grouped;
+}
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-th.over {
-  color: $playback-over;
-}
-
-th.under {
-  color: $playback-under;
-}
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Claude	c361791080	fix(automation): stop the list claiming an automation never runs An automation can be triggered two ways, and they are stored in different places: global triggers live in the automation settings, event triggers live on the event itself, inside the rundown. The panel only ever receives the first list. So the Runs on column was reading an automation attached to ten events as having no triggers at all, and saying "Never runs" about something that runs perfectly well. Worse than a missing hint: it taught that event triggers do not count. The client cannot honestly answer the question either, since it holds only the rundown that is currently loaded and a project can have several. So the column no longer answers it. An empty cell now reads as an em dash, the same as the filter rule column beside it, and claims nothing. The "No outputs" tag stays. An automation with nothing to send does nothing whatever triggers it, and that the panel can see for itself. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfDKsy6PE3Rbyt32Fg4YKf	2026-09-06 19:58:39 +00:00
Claude	126abcbd93	fix(automation): let the automation form scroll, and grow the Ontime recipes The automation form opens in the wide modal, whose body sets overflow hidden because a wide modal is expected to manage its own scrolling. This one did not, so the form was simply clipped: with five outputs the content ran to 2004px inside a 590px box and both the last outputs and Save were out of reach, with nothing on screen to say so. The form now owns its scrolling through the shared ScrollArea, and so does the recipe list, which caps rather than fixes its height so the dialog still shrinks to two rows when a search narrows it. The search moves out of the scrolling region, which retires the sticky positioning that stood in for it. The recipe section for Ontime's own actions was named after a property, 'Works out of the box', while every other section is named after what it talks to. It is now 'Ontime automations' and carries the actions that were missing: stopping an aux timer on finish, and pointing the stage timer's secondary field at one. Those need to know which of the three aux timers you mean, which is a choice rather than something to type, so a parameter can now declare options and render as a select. Action keys are a union the compiler checks against the schema, so the aux number resolves through maps rather than string interpolation: an unexpected value falls back to the first timer instead of building an action the server would reject. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfDKsy6PE3Rbyt32Fg4YKf	2026-09-06 19:12:32 +00:00
Claude	2ddd496c78	feat(automation): ask a recipe for its parameters instead of its whole form A recipe knows almost everything about the automation it makes. What it cannot know is where your gear is: which machine runs QLab, which Companion button, how long the aux timer should run. Handing the user the full automation form to supply three of those made them read a form of twenty fields to change one. A recipe now declares its parameters, and picking one asks for those and nothing else. Create makes the automation and its trigger through the same endpoints the form uses, so what lands in the list is an ordinary automation with nothing special about it. Each recipe carries a `build` function rather than a literal, which is what lets the answers reach the outputs — a Companion address and a page, row and column become one URL. That also absorbs the two things a user does without thinking: an address pasted with a trailing slash, and a webhook URL that already carries a query string. Every default still points at loopback. For the list to hold many recipes it has to be searchable and grouped, so it is both. Search matches the title, the description, the category and a keywords list, so the Companion recipe answers to "stream deck" and "elgato" and QLab answers to "osc" and "audio". Enter takes the top result. Escape clears the search rather than closing the dialog, which is the behaviour the settings search already has. The picker and the parameter step are two views of one dialog rather than two stacked modals, so Back means back rather than dismissing everything. Rows carry only the lifecycle tag: with many recipes, the description and one tag is what stays readable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfDKsy6PE3Rbyt32Fg4YKf	2026-09-06 19:04:57 +00:00
Claude	25eb68452c	refactor(automation): split the output kinds out of the form AutomationForm rendered all three output kinds inline, so the file mixed the form's own concerns with the fields of every protocol it can speak. Each kind now has a component next to OntimeActionForm, which was already there and was the odd one out, and OutputCard owns the chrome they share. The form drops from ~700 lines to ~540 and the map over the outputs reads as three cases. Three copies of an inline structural cast existed only to reach an output field's error by name, which react-hook-form cannot resolve through a union. One OutputErrors type replaces all of them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfDKsy6PE3Rbyt32Fg4YKf	2026-09-06 15:28:25 +00:00
Claude	a905bf912f	feat(automation): one step creation, recipes, and a panel that says what it does Making an automation took two visits to two lists. You wrote the automation in one, then remembered that an automation alone never runs, went to the trigger list, made a trigger, and pointed it back at what you had just made. A first time user who stopped after the first step got a thing that looked finished and did nothing. Lifecycles are now picked on the automation form, as chips. Saving reconciles the triggers behind it, diffed against a snapshot taken when the form opened so a save never removes a trigger the user could not see. Every lifecycle is in one place, including the two that fire continuously, which say so before you pick them rather than after your log fills up. That leaves the trigger list as what it actually is: a place to rename a generated trigger, or to point several differently named ones at the same automation. It says so, and it names the triggers whose automation is gone. New opens one list of starting points: an empty automation, then a handful of recipes for the software people actually pair Ontime with. A recipe is nothing but a pre-filled form, so choosing one opens the ordinary automation form with its values in place. The user reads what it will do, points it at their own gear and saves. Nothing is written until they do, and there is no second creation path to keep working: one request, the same as any other automation. Every recipe targets loopback, so one saved without thinking cannot put traffic on a venue network. The list now answers what an automation does without opening it: when it runs, whether it filters, and what it sends. An automation with no trigger or no output is the common half-finished state and is called out rather than shown as a blank cell. Outputs are cards with their type, a summary and a Test button in the header, which is also where the test says whether it worked: the panel used to send and tell the user nothing either way. Deleting confirms first and names the triggers that go with it, instead of dumping the server's refusal into a stray row under the table. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfDKsy6PE3Rbyt32Fg4YKf	2026-09-06 15:28:10 +00:00
Claude	149cc0da92	fix(automation): delete an automation together with its global triggers The server refused to delete an automation while any global trigger pointed at it, so removing one meant finding its triggers in a second list and deleting each by hand first. The refusal was protecting against dead data, but a trigger pointing at a deleted automation is the dead data. Both are now written in a single patch, so there is no window where one outlives the other and nothing to roll back. An automation attached to an event is still refused: that reference lives in the rundown, and removing it is an edit to the show rather than to the automation settings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfDKsy6PE3Rbyt32Fg4YKf	2026-09-06 15:27:27 +00:00
Claude	419ca5c4ca	refactor(automation): name lifecycles and outputs the same way everywhere A lifecycle was written three ways depending on where you were standing: "On Start" in the automation settings, the raw "onStart" in the event editor, and again as a literal in the trigger list. Anyone attaching an automation to an event had to work out that the two lists were the same list. One label map now owns the user facing names, and one helper summarises what an automation sends. Both are shared, so the event editor gains the labels and a Sends column for free: the trigger row says which automation runs and what it will do, instead of only its title. Two things the panel could not say before, now that it can look them up: - A trigger can outlive the automation it points at, say after a partial project import. It rendered as an empty tag; it now says so. - not_contains is in the type and the runtime, but the server validation list omits it, so an automation using it cannot be saved. The operator list moves out of the form and drops it, with a test to stop it coming back. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AfDKsy6PE3Rbyt32Fg4YKf	2026-09-06 15:27:06 +00:00
Carlos Valente	1175b3c641	fix(report): harden empty report check	2026-09-05 20:51:53 +02:00
Carlos Valente	afc3a44455	refactor(report): improve report summary	2026-09-05 20:35:44 +02:00
Carlos Valente	bc6a321172	fix(cuesheet): prevent empty seconds field	2026-09-05 20:32:02 +02:00
Carlos Valente	977b01a072	fix: keep group visible as header for the running event	2026-09-05 09:24:42 +02:00
SMPTY	dd718230ad	fix(client): fix PWA manifest so "Install as App" works properly (#2192 )	2026-09-05 09:15:08 +02:00
Carlos Valente	9ec12f4927	docs(llm): request for useeffect documentation	2026-08-28 12:29:12 +02:00
Carlos Valente	4c08ca2908	feat(timer): playing sound on time end	2026-08-28 12:29:12 +02:00
Carlos Valente	265b167600	bump version to 4.13.0	2026-08-28 12:04:02 +02:00
Carlos Valente	eb7b2a5c4b	refactor(finder): improve feature UX Search every text field with optional filters, keep result selection stable, and expose clearer match context and counts. Cover query parsing, matching, mixed-entry indexing, and the reveal flow.	2026-08-28 11:41:44 +02:00
Carlos Valente	e0ae9f7f09	refactor(log): use ToggleButton for filters Reuse the shared toggle abstraction while preserving the existing filter behaviour and accessible labels.	2026-08-28 11:41:44 +02:00
Carlos Valente	b0c778fa62	feat(buttons): add ToggleButton component Keep toggle styling and the accessible pressed state coupled in one reusable button.	2026-08-28 11:41:44 +02:00
Carlos Valente	98d3b1f6f3	chore(license): resolver has permissive license	2026-08-28 08:40:17 +02:00
Carlos Valente	d9dd147d4b	refactor(server): replace defensive copies with cow patterns	2026-08-26 20:17:34 +02:00
Carlos Valente	9806f97d27	test(rundown): improve rundown utils coverage	2026-08-25 22:41:37 +02:00
Carlos Valente	b9683f00dc	fix: prevent stale rundown cache on rename	2026-08-25 21:41:34 +02:00
Carlos Valente	63fdc50c50	docs(llms): document ongoing code migrations	2026-08-25 21:41:18 +02:00
Carlos Valente	5acfc4a122	docs(llms): setup agents documentation	2026-08-25 21:41:18 +02:00
Carlos Valente	a84b8b5530	refactor(ui): polish navigation menu and view params editor	2026-08-23 13:42:21 +02:00
Carlos Valente	c19aa4ca28	fix(cuesheet): prevent stale column width on refresh	2026-08-23 13:28:24 +02:00
Carlos Valente	805663e2ea	chore(deps): migrate to @tanstack/react-table v9	2026-08-23 13:28:24 +02:00
Carlos Valente	0f0b32d444	accept bearer token	2026-08-21 20:52:11 +02:00
Carlos Valente	703dee35a4	style: bump oxfmt to 0.63 and reformat	2026-08-18 13:56:53 +02:00
Carlos Valente	2a7f5b7872	chore(deps): upgrade dependencies	2026-08-18 13:56:53 +02:00
Carlos Valente	c6eccec30e	refactor(settings): show new app indicator	2026-08-09 16:48:20 +02:00
Carlos Valente	5220c2c374	fix(settings): prevent loader overflow	2026-08-09 16:48:20 +02:00
Carlos Valente	4eeeb294f7	chore: update electron navigation	2026-08-09 16:48:20 +02:00
Alex Christoffer Rasmussen	a006331fea	Group duration context menu utils (#1748 )	2026-08-09 16:45:47 +02:00
Carlos Valente	ac0ef06459	bump version to 4.12.0	2026-08-09 10:44:13 +02:00
Carlos Valente	4d04fe35c3	refactor(e2e): improve test stability	2026-08-09 10:41:12 +02:00
Carlos Valente	fb559ed9da	refactor(progress bar): reset when event changes	2026-08-05 15:30:22 +02:00
Carlos Valente	24be49ef66	refactor(settings): polish settings UI	2026-08-02 13:44:28 +02:00
Carlos Valente	f0c284b708	refactor(link): add row presentation variant	2026-08-02 13:44:28 +02:00
Carlos Valente	9e42f18299	feat(settings): add searchable navigation	2026-08-02 13:44:28 +02:00
Carlos Valente	bdd815678b	refactor(ui): extend link and modal variants	2026-08-02 13:44:28 +02:00
Carlos Valente	12fc76b8ff	refactor(op): simplify UI elements	2026-08-02 12:55:49 +02:00
Carlos Valente	8ed0a1689e	refactor(op): clarify settings text	2026-08-02 12:55:49 +02:00
Carlos Valente	ba18b8dba7	refactor(ui): rundown title UI polish	2026-08-02 12:55:49 +02:00
Carlos Valente	608247157b	refactor(rundown): cap rundown names to 64 characters	2026-08-02 12:55:49 +02:00
Carlos Valente	514b6c3a02	refactor(navigation): custom params indicators only for current view	2026-08-02 12:55:49 +02:00
Carlos Valente	2050735014	refactor(ui): title alignment is logo aware	2026-08-02 12:55:49 +02:00
Carlos Valente	76b1341432	refactor(logo): upload on submit form	2026-08-02 10:39:58 +02:00
Carlos Valente	c7422fc7c7	refactor(logo): improve flow for managing logo	2026-08-02 10:39:58 +02:00
Carlos Valente	c93b10cea9	chore: bump deepmerge-ts package	2026-08-02 10:39:58 +02:00
Carlos Valente	8a7f9530d2	chore: bump nanoid package	2026-08-02 10:39:58 +02:00