Location Designer

The Location Designer is where a venue's pitches get their physical layout — a map view where each pitch is a rectangle you drag into place, resize and rotate. It's also where a pitch gets split into bookable zones, like halves or thirds. This page is the companion to Venues & Pitches, which covers creating the venue and its pitches in the first place.

Opening the Designer

From the organization's Facilities → Pitches tab, tap the floor-plan icon on a venue's card. A viewer without the manage facilities capability can still open the designer to look at the layout, but gets no Save button and no editing controls.

Adding a Pitch to the Map

Tap Add field and choose a size preset — the same presets used when adding a pitch: 11v11, 9v9, 7v7, 5v5, Futsal, Indoor hall, or Custom. The new rectangle is placed automatically in the first free spot on the map, at that preset's real-world proportions, so a 5v5 pitch and an 11v11 pitch never look the same size by accident.

A pitch that hasn't been given a saved position yet — either brand new, or reset by the server — is shown with a dashed border. It only gets a real position once you save.

Positioning, Resizing & Rotating

Tap a pitch on the map to select it; a small action bar appears with:

Zoom & Pan

The canvas is zoomed with the + / − buttons in the toolbar, from 50% up to 200% in 25% steps, plus a reset-to-fit button that snaps back to 100% and recenters the view. There's no pinch-to-zoom gesture on the canvas itself — panning around the map is a plain drag, and zoom level is always controlled from the toolbar buttons.

Splitting a Pitch Into Zones

Select a pitch and tap Split into zones to open the zone picker. Choose a preset:

A 5v5 pitch or a Futsal pitch only ever offers Halves — there's no meaningful way to book a third of a 5-a-side cage. Once a preset is chosen, each resulting zone gets a preview on a small grid and an editable name (e.g. "Half 1", "Half 2"); a zone can't be left unnamed. The full pitch itself is always listed too, marked "Always present" — it's the zone a booking lands on when nobody asks for a specific half or third.

Saving Your Layout

Every change — adding a pitch, moving it, resizing it, rotating it, splitting it into zones, deleting it — is a local draft first. Nothing reaches the server until you tap Save in the header. Trying to leave the screen with unsaved changes — back button, gesture, or the drawer — prompts you to keep editing or discard.

Save runs in a fixed order: new pitches are created first, then every moved or newly placed pitch is saved in one batch layout call, then each pitch with changed zones is re-cut, and finally any pitch marked for deletion is deactivated. If part of that sequence fails — for example a save that conflicts with someone else's more recent edit — you're shown which pitches by name still have unsaved changes, so you can retry without losing the rest of your layout.

Next Steps