Export and Share

When your signs are ready, three tools in the course toolbar on the Signage page help you share them: Download, Caddie books and Share.

Download a sign

Select a Tee Sign or an Info Board.
Open the Download popover in the toolbar.
Choose PDF, PNG or JPG.
Choose a size.
Click Download.

A PDF is sized to print at its true physical size, for example A4, A3 or US Letter. PNG and JPG are sized in pixels, from Small (for social media) to Maximum (best quality, largest file).

You can also download several signs at once as one ZIP file, and share a link to the ZIP with your print shop. Some print shops need special options, such as room for the screws or frame that mount a sign, or text converted to outlines. See Downloading signs for all download options.

Publish a Caddie Book

A Caddie Book bundles the signs you want to share with players into one page. Click Caddie books in the toolbar to open the Caddie Book picker.

For each book you can:

Pick the Tee Signs and Info Boards to include.
Turn the cover page, back cover and Hole notes in the PDF on or off.
Customize the cover title, subtitle, background and colors.
Publish the book to a live URL that stays in sync with your course.
Embed the book on your own website with a copy-paste iframe snippet.
Download the book as a PDF for printing or offline handouts.

Parkdly renders the PDF on its servers. The dialog shows the progress and offers the download when it is ready. A full course takes a minute or two, so keep the dialog open until the download button appears.

Most courses publish one Caddie Book for each division (MPO, FPO) or Layout. Each published book gets a URL such as parkdly.com/caddie-books/<token>. If your project has a public page, you can also show Caddie Books there with a shorter URL. To manage all books in a project, open the project page and switch to its Caddie books tab.

For the full guide, see Caddie Books.

Click Share to open the Sharing dialog. When anything is shared, the button reads Shared. The top of the dialog sums up what is shared. The dialog has five tabs:

Overview — your publish marks, what updates as you edit, and print-shop links that still work. See What updates as you edit.
People — everyone who can open and edit the course, and where their access comes from. You can also invite someone to this course (Pro). See Team.
Caddie books — every published Caddie Book, ready to copy or manage.
Preview link — a view-only link to the interactive course map with its primary signs. Anyone with the link can see the course. They cannot edit or copy it.
Copy link — lets others copy the course into their own Parkdly project.

Editors can also open Share. They see only the Overview tab. Only the course owner and Admins can invite people and create links.

You can open Share and invite people as soon as the course exists. The Caddie books, Preview link and Copy link tabs use the signs of your course. Until the course has signs, these tabs point you to the Signage Editor.

Let others copy your course

Anyone with a Copy link can copy the course into their own Parkdly project. When you create the link, you choose what goes with the copies. The course geometry always goes along. You can also include these items:

the satellite image
Layouts
elevation data
your custom Theme
your signage design
your brand images

Click Include all to turn everything on at once. Each option also shows whether your course has that content. You can change what a Copy link shares at any time while it is active. You do not need to remove the link and create it again.

What the recipient keeps also depends on their plan. The copy page lists only what your course has. It marks anything their plan cannot hold, and shows what they get instead. The copy always continues with the rest.

What updates as you edit

These show the course as it is now, every time someone opens them:

the Preview link
a published caddie book: its page, its embed and its PDF link
your project's public page
partner apps that read the course through the API

A QR code on a printed sign that opens one of these also shows your latest edits.

A course linked to a partner app has Publish instead of Share. Publish sends the course to the partner app. Hover over Publish, or open it, to see when the course was last sent and by whom, for example Last sent to Score App · 7 Oct · Holly Hobby. A partner app that waits for Publish keeps that version until you publish again.

Anything you download is a copy of the course at that moment: ZIPs, PDFs and images. To send a newer version, download it again.

Open Share → Overview to see what updates as you edit. A print-shop link that still works is listed there too, with its Copy button. Everyone who can open Share sees the list. The owner and Admins can also copy the links.

Mark as published

When the course goes out, for example to the printer, mark it. Open Share → Overview and click Mark as published. Write what went out and, if you like, a note. Parkdly suggests a name from your latest download.

The Published section of the Overview lists the latest marks with the date and who made them. Only the course owner and Admins can make marks, and only they can edit or delete them from the ⋮ menu on a mark. Publish marks are on every plan. Copies of the course start without marks.

Your course lists show the newest mark. On Home and on the project page, a marked course shows Published with the date. When someone edits the course after that, it shows Changed since published instead, so you know the printed signs no longer match. Tap the label to see the mark's name. A course linked to a partner app shows Linked to and the app's name.

On plans with version history, a mark also saves a version of the course as it was when it went out, named like the mark. It counts as one of your saved versions. When they are all in use, Parkdly asks which one to replace; Back returns to the mark as you wrote it. The owner and Admins can open the version from the mark's ⋮ menu with View saved version, or bring it back with Restore saved version. Deleting a mark keeps its saved version. On Free the mark is saved without a version.

The notice while you edit

After a course has a mark, the editor shows a quiet notice under the top bar. It names the latest mark and tells you where your edits appear right away, such as the caddie book. The notice never blocks your edits.

What's shared opens Share → Overview.
Hide hides the notice in this browser until someone makes the next mark. Other people still see it. The Overview always lists your marks.

The notice is hidden while you can only view the course.

Next step

To see what each plan includes, see plans and subscription.