{"slug":"publishing-your-event-maps","title":"Choose how your event maps publish","description":"Choose whether your event maps publish automatically, or only when you publish them yourself.","section":"market","sections":["market"],"tags":["maps,publish"],"aliases":[],"author":"Farmspread Support","updated":"2026-09-13","published_datetime":"2020-09-01T12:00:00.000Z","promoted":true,"related":["manual-map-publishing"],"links":["manual-map-publishing"],"images":{},"video":null,"source_commit":"d6cdbeb","body_format":"markdown","nav":{"section":"market","group":"Lay out your space","previous":{"slug":"update-your-event-map","title":"Update your event map"},"next":{"slug":"manual-map-publishing","title":"Publish or unpublish a map manually"}},"related_articles":[{"slug":"manual-map-publishing","title":"Publish or unpublish a map manually","description":"Publish or unpublish a single event day's map when your market's Event publishing mode is set to Manual."}],"body":"Once you have an activated event or event series, choose how its maps publish, in one of three ways.\n\n- **Auto-publish all** - Automatically publishes all your event maps, regardless of whether you have booth assignments or not\n- **Auto-publish next** - Automatically publishes the next event map as soon as the current one starts\n- **Manual publish** - Only publishes an event map when you mark it published yourself. See [Publish or unpublish a map manually](https://articles.marketspread.com/v1/articles/manual-map-publishing)\n\n## Set the publish mode\n\n1. Open **Event Configuration**, then click **Events**.\n\n   ![The Events list, with the new event under Active Events](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/publishing-your-event-maps/01-events-list.png)\n\n2. Click the grey arrow next to the event or event series you want to change.\n\n   ![The event in the Events list, with its grey Overview arrow](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/publishing-your-event-maps/02-select-event.png)\n\n3. Click the blue pencil icon next to the **Basic** tab.\n\n   ![The Basic tab, with its blue edit pencil](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/publishing-your-event-maps/03-basic-tab-edit.png)\n\n4. Scroll to **Event publish mode**, under **Event Layout**.\n\n   ![The Event publish mode section, with its three options](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/publishing-your-event-maps/04-publish-mode.png)\n\n5. Choose the mode you want.\n6. Click the blue **Save basic** button at the bottom of the page.\n\n   ![The Save basic button at the bottom of the form](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/publishing-your-event-maps/05-save.png)"}