Duplicating classes, terms and timetables

Once your first term is built, you should never build one from scratch again. Everything duplicable lands on a prefilled Add form, and nothing is created until you save, so you adjust the dates first and sessions are only ever generated for the corrected version.

Duplicate a term (the big one)

The end-of-term ritual, in one action:

1. On Tempo → Terms, use the Duplicate row action on the finishing term.
2. An Add term form opens, prefilled with the source's dates, half-term break and exclusions, with "(copy)" on the name. Change the name and shift the dates to the new term.
3. Old exclusion dates that fall outside the new term's range are caught by validation, which walks you through fixing each one, so last term's show weekend can't haunt this term's calendar.
4. Leave "Copy the timetable from …" ticked (it is by default) and every active timetable entry comes across: days, times, locations, capacities, pricing, teachers. Saving creates the term, copies the timetable and generates all its sessions in one go. Untick it to create the term empty instead.

Copy a timetable between existing terms

Already created the new term by hand? The "Copy timetable from another term" box at the bottom of the Timetable screen does the same copy into the term you're viewing. Classes already scheduled in the destination are skipped rather than duplicated, and sessions generate immediately.

Duplicate a class

A row action on Tempo → Classes, for when a new class is a close cousin of an existing one ("Saturday Juniors B"). It opens Add class prefilled from the source with a "(copy)" name. Save it, then give it a timetable entry; duplicating a class doesn't schedule it anywhere by itself.

Everything is audited

Term creation, class creation and deletion, timetable copies and any sessions flagged for resolution are all written to the audit log, so you can always reconstruct who set up what and when. See The audit log.