Caddie Books

A Caddie Book is a curated bundle of the course's Tee Signs and Info Boards packaged for players. You can publish each book as a live web page that players open on their phone during a round. Players can also download the same content as a PDF for printing or offline use.

Most courses run multiple books. For example, one book for MPO players and one for FPO players. Each division then sees only the Tee Signs that apply to it.

How it works

Open the Caddie books button in the course toolbar. On a phone, tap Share & export at the end of the steps row. A picker lists every caddie book on the course and lets you create a new one. Each book opens in an editor dialog with four tabs:

  • Details: the book's name (for example "MPO Caddie Book"), the live URL, the embed code and the PDF download. Players see the name in the switcher when a course has more than one published book.
  • Signages: which Tee Signs and Info Boards the book includes.
  • Pages: whether the PDF includes a cover page, a back cover and hole notes.
  • Cover & style: the title, subtitle, cover image, background and colors.

The book stays in draft until you publish it. You can keep editing after you publish. Changes go live on the public page at once. You do not need to publish again.

If you invited people to your account, Editors can create and edit caddie books. Publishing, unpublishing and deleting a book are for Admins and the account owner.

Select signs

In the Signages tab, pick the Info Boards and Tee Signs for this book. Every course Layout has a Quick select button in the top row. One click picks every sign that covers that Layout. It skips Holes that the Layout does not play.

A Tee Sign can belong to several Layouts. The Layout-colored circles next to each row show which Layouts the sign displays. They match the markers on the canvas. A sign whose template shows one Layout gets one circle, even on a course with several Layouts. Quick select picks only the signs that list that Layout.

The book shows Hole numbers only for the Layouts that its selected signs display.

  • A sign limited to one Layout adds that Layout.
  • A sign with no Layout limit adds as many Layouts as its template can show. A template that displays two Layouts adds the course's first two.
  • Layouts that none of the chosen signs display are left out of the book.

The numbers in the reader and the PDF then match the signs.

Publish and share

Before you start, open the book's editor dialog and go to the Details tab.

  1. Find the Public link & embed card.
  2. Click Publish.

Parkdly creates a public URL at /caddie-books/<token> and shows:

  • The full share URL, with Copy and Open buttons.
  • A PDF link (/caddie-books/<token>/pdf) with a Copy PDF link button. The link downloads the book's latest PDF. You can paste it on an event page or any other site. You never upload the file again after changes. If you just edited the book, the link shows a short "Preparing Your PDF…" page. The download starts by itself when the PDF is ready. The PDF link needs a plan that includes PDF export.
  • An Unpublish button. It revokes the link. The URL stops working at once.

When a book is published, the dialog header shows a Published pill. Click it to copy the URL without opening the Details tab.

The public reader is mobile-first. It shows the signs you chose, with previous and next arrows to step through them one at a time. It opens on the book's first sign: the Info Board if the book has one, otherwise the first Tee Sign. Players can pick a specific sign from the in-page navigation. If the course has more than one published book, the header has a switcher. Players can then flip between the MPO and FPO views.

Your caddie book stays in sync with course edits. Change a Tee Sign's notes in Parkdly Studio and save. The public reader updates the next time someone opens it.

A downloaded PDF is different. It is a copy made at that moment, and later edits do not reach it. The PDF link above always gives the latest version. To see which outputs follow your edits, read What updates as you edit.

Show a caddie book on your public page

Your project can have a public page: a landing page at parkdly.com/p/<project-slug> that lists what you want to share. You can list published caddie books on it under a slug-based URL, for example parkdly.com/p/your-park/mpo-2026. The original /caddie-books/<token> URL keeps working. The slug URL is an additional entry point that is easier to read and share.

Open the project's public page settings and go to the Content tab. There you can:

  • Pick which published caddie books appear on the public page. Use the checkboxes. Only published books show up.
  • Set the URL slug for each selected book (for example mpo-2026). Parkdly suggests a slug from the book's title. You can edit it.
  • Reorder the listed books with the up and down arrows. Players see them in this order.

The slug becomes the public URL: /p/<project-slug>/<book-slug>. You manage the slug in the public page settings. The Details tab of the caddie book editor shows the slug URL when one exists, but you cannot edit it there.

Changing a slug

If you change a slug on a published page, the previous URL stops working at once. Anyone who saved or shared the old URL sees a "not found" page. Parkdly shows a warning in the slug input when you change a saved slug. Change a slug only if the old URL is not in use anywhere.

Change the public page's appearance

Go to the Appearance tab in the public page settings. There you can:

  • Pick a main logo that shows above the page title. It uses an image from the project's brand images.
  • Choose theme colors for the background, the text and the accent that highlights links.
  • Add sponsor logos, up to 30. They show in the footer.

Sponsor logos show in the order you set in the picker. Drag a selected row to move it. The footer shows the logos from left to right in that order. The footer scales the tile size by itself. A few logos render larger. Many logos render smaller. The row stays balanced.

Each logo (the main logo and every sponsor logo) accepts an optional link URL. If you set it, the logo is clickable on the public page and opens the linked site in a new tab. If you leave it blank, the logo is a plain image. Links must use https://. Parkdly adds the prefix if you paste a URL without it.

You manage brand images in the project's Images tab. You do not have to start there. The logo and sponsor pickers each have an Upload image button, so you can add a logo and use it at once. Inline upload is available on plans that include custom branding. If you reached your image limit, the picker links you to the Images tab.

Each image in the Images tab has a usage badge. Click Used to see where the image appears: Tee Signs, Info Boards, the public page and caddie books. Unused means nothing depends on the image. If you remove an image that is still in use, Parkdly asks you to confirm. It shows which places will lose the image. The removal takes effect when you save.

Embed on your website

You can embed a published caddie book on your own website, for example on a club homepage or a venue page. The embed shows the same interactive caddie book as the public URL. It uses a slim layout without the Parkdly header.

  1. Open the book's Details tab.
  2. Find the Public link & embed card.
  3. Click Embed.
  4. Click Copy embed code.
  5. Paste the HTML block into your website.

Most CMS platforms, such as Squarespace, WordPress and Wix, accept the block in a rich-text or HTML field.

The Embed button is there before you publish. If the book is not live yet, the dialog says that publishing is required. It has a Publish button, so you can go from draft to embed code in one place.

The embed is responsive and uses the share URL token. This has three effects:

  • If you unpublish the caddie book, the embed stops too. You manage one link.
  • Edits in Parkdly Studio show in the embed by themselves, like the live URL.
  • If the course owner's subscription ends, or tier limits lock the course, the embed shows the same "temporarily unavailable" page as the public URL.

A small "Powered by Parkdly" badge in the corner lets visitors open the full caddie book in a new tab. Analytics is off inside the embed, so visitor traffic on other sites stays anonymous.

Download a PDF

The Details tab has a Download PDF button. It creates a one-time snapshot for printing or offline use. The PDF uses the book's cover, style and selected signs.

Players can also get the PDF themselves in two ways: a download icon next to each book on your project's public page, or the menu inside the interactive caddie book view.

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. Keep the dialog open until the download button appears.

Share dialog

The Share button in the course toolbar shows every published caddie book. On a phone, it is under Share & export. The dialog also has a Preview link and a Copy link. Use it to copy URLs quickly without opening the full editor.

Manage caddie books across a project

Every project page has a Caddie books tab next to Courses. It lists every caddie book across all of the project's courses in one place. You can review and publish without opening each course. Each row shows the book's name and course. From a row you can:

  • See if the book is Published or a Draft.
  • Click Publish to publish a draft.
  • Click Embed to open the embed dialog. It shows the iframe snippet if the book is live, or a prompt to publish first.
  • Open the live Published caddie book page. If the book shows on the public page, you can also open the project's public page.
  • Click Settings to open that course's design view and the book's editor dialog.

Availability and limits

  • Caddie books are a paid feature. They are not available on the Free plan. Customization of the title, subtitle, cover image, background and colors needs a higher plan.
  • You can create one caddie book per course Layout, with a minimum of one. Add a Layout if you need another book.
  • A caddie book's public URL stops working if the owner's subscription ends. It also stops if the course is locked because it has more Layouts than the plan allows. Players then see a "temporarily unavailable" page.

See Plans and Billing for current plan details.

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