Import from your other tools
Pull the input list from Stage Plot Generator, frequencies from FreqSense, the power total from PowerSense and set lengths from SetlistForge — through a preview, and with a warning when a source changed.
On this page
Every section that another Squaresmile tool already knows has an Import from … button. Nothing lands in the rider until you have seen it: each import opens a preview where you tick the rows to take, then Import selected.
| Section | Source | What comes across |
|---|---|---|
| Input list | Stage Plot Generator | Channels with source, mic or DI, stand, +48V, insert and who provides it (band or venue) |
| Wireless | FreqSense | The frequencies of the plan you pick |
| Power | PowerSense | One line per rig — the real draw and the safety margin, with a warning when a feed is overloaded — and the site total |
| Schedule | SetlistForge | Set lengths — "Set 1 — 12 × · 48 min" — and the breaks; the time column stays for you to fill in |
FreqSense and PowerSense are free. Stage Plot Generator and SetlistForge are paid tools. A tool your account cannot use is named under its button, and the button is off.
SetlistForge is read from your account when its backup is on. With SetlistForge's free plan, or with its backup switched off, RiderSmith reads the SetlistForge library saved in this browser instead, so import on the device where you made the setlist.
Importing again
- Input list: channels that are already in the rider are updated by channel number instead of being added a second time.
- Wireless and schedule: a row is skipped only when exactly the same row is already there. A changed row is added as a new row, so delete the old one yourself.
- Power: the new summary is added below the text that is there, unless the same text is already in the section.
The input list from Stage Plot
- Which plot? Pick the working plot or any save slot. Stage Plot's File → Open input list in RiderSmith… brings you here and asks whether to open the preview.
- Only your plot. On a shared computer RiderSmith offers only the plots that belong to the account you are signed in with.
- The preview is careful. Rows without a channel number and monitor outputs arrive unticked. A section holds at most 80 rows: when the plot has more new rows than still fit, the preview says how many fit, and after the import RiderSmith says how many were left out.
- The plot itself goes in as a picture: Export PNG in Stage Plot, then Attach image… on the Stage plot section.
Switching imports off
- Use details from my other tools (in the rider options) is on by default and counts for all your riders. Switched off, there are no import buttons, Stage Plot's hand-off does nothing, and RiderSmith reads nothing from your other tools. PowerSense then stops reading your riders too.
- Disconnect source next to an imported section: the rows stay, and RiderSmith stops checking whether that source changed.
Labels in the rider's language
The labels RiderSmith writes into imported rows — "Set 1", "Break", the power total — follow the rider's language, not the language of your interface. What came from the source tool (channel names, rig names, song counts) stays as it was.
When a source changed
Each imported section shows when it was imported. How RiderSmith notices a later change depends on the source:
- Stage Plot input list — checked against your account, so you see "⚠ The plot changed on … — import again" wherever you are signed in.
- FreqSense and PowerSense — checked against the plan stored in this browser, so the warning appears on the device you planned them on.
- SetlistForge — no warning; import again when the set changed.
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