Start here
Scoutline is ready to publish as it stands. These steps turn the sample agency into yours in an afternoon.
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Make it yours
Swap the agency name, phone and email in the Navigation and Footer, both of which live in the layout template so every page follows. Colours and type are Styles: change a colour once and the whole site updates.
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Add a location
Open CMS, Locations, New item. Give it a name, reference, summary, description, cover photo and gallery. Setting, Region and Visual Character power the catalogue filters. Tick Featured to place it on the home page.
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Add its spaces
Open CMS, Spaces, New item. Choose the parent location, name the room, set its Order, then add photographs, size, light and production notes. Rooms appear in the dossier in that order.
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Connect the plan
Upload a Floor Plan image to the location. On each space set Plan Marker X and Y as percentages from the left and top edge of the plan, so 50 and 50 sits in the centre. The marker, the room list, the photographs and the notes then move together.
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Locations without a plan
Leave Floor Plan empty and the dossier becomes a room by room gallery. A location with no spaces shows its contact sheet and production specs on their own.
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Production specs
Fill in what you know: shooting area, ceiling height, daylight and blackout, loading, parking, crew capacity, holding rooms, sound, restrictions and rate basis. Empty fields stay off the page, and the compare table answers Ask the agency for anything not supplied.
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Related locations
Pick up to four items in Related Locations and they appear under Scout these next on that location’s page.
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Send enquiries to your inbox
Select the form on Shoot Brief, List Your Location and Contact, open its Send To setting and add your email address, a webhook or a Google Sheet. The shoot brief carries the visitor’s saved locations, references, links and notes with it.
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Shortlist, compare and print
Visitors save a location with the plus on any photograph. Their shortlist keeps notes in the browser, compares up to three locations side by side and prints a branded scouting summary. Set your agency name and contact line on the Scouting Summary component.
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Keep the right details public
The CMS holds what a production needs to see before a recce. Street addresses, owner contacts and access codes belong in your own records and go out with each confirmed booking.
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Before you publish
Replace the sample photography with your own, set the site title and social image in Site Settings, then remove the Template column from the footer along with this page and Design System.