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Viewing subsessions within the agenda

Subsessions live inside their parent’s time slot, so the agenda shows the parent as a single block and folds the subsessions into it rather than drawing each one as its own event.

In the Day, Week, Month and Rooms views, a parent session’s block carries a small count badge in its top-right corner — the number of subsessions it holds. Hover the badge to see each subsession’s time and title; hover anywhere else on the block for the parent’s own title, time and tags.

The agenda Day view with a parent session block showing a subsession count badge and the parent's hover tooltip

Click the block to open the parent in the side panel, where the Connections tab lists the subsessions with their IDs (SESS-4-1, SESS-4-2, …) and times, and lets you open each one.

On the agenda’s List tab — and on Program → Sessions — a parent row has an expand arrow at its left edge. Click it to nest the subsessions under the parent; each subsession row has its own pencil to open it.

A parent’s subsessions load when you expand it, so on an event with many subsessions you may see a short Loading row before they appear. Once loaded, they stay loaded until the list reloads. When you search or filter, a parent that matches only through its subsessions shows just the matching ones, already expanded; clear the search to see all of them again.

The Sessions list with a parent session expanded to show its subsessions nested underneath

Subsessions appear in the order set on the parent’s Connections tab. Drag them into a different order there and the agenda, the session detail view and the Agenda embed follow — see Reorder subsessions. Subsessions that have not been given a position are listed after the ordered ones, by start time.

Subsessions always stay inside the parent’s slot:

  • Drag the parent to a new time and every subsession moves by the same amount, so a poster session that ran 2:30–2:50 inside a 2:30–3:30 parent still runs in the first twenty minutes after the parent moves to 4:00.
  • Shorten the parent so the subsessions no longer fit, and Sessionboard compresses them proportionally to the new slot instead of leaving any of them outside it.
  • Edit a subsession’s own time from its Details tab and it must still start and end within the parent; the editor tells you if it does not. To lay several out back to back, use Sequence times on the parent — see Schedule subsessions back to back.

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