> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.luce.show/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create and publish your first Luce event

> Learn how to create an event in Luce, choose the modes of its show, rehearse it in the console and publish it for your guests, in four steps.

This guide takes you from a new Luce account to a published event that guests can open and answer. You need a Luce account: sign in at [luce.show](https://luce.show) with Google or with a link sent to your email.

**1. Create the event**

Choose **Create** and fill in the event:

* **Event name**, the only required field.
* **Start** and **End**, with the time zone the event happens in.
* **Cover photo**: upload your own, or choose one from your library, a GIF or a stock photo.
* **Description** and **location**. Pick the place on the map or search for it; guests see the address and a map on the event page.
* **Event type**, such as Concert, Conference or Wedding. Luce uses it to suggest modes in the next step.

Choose **Create event**.

**2. Pick what happens in your show**

Luce opens **What happens in your show?** with a few modes already ticked for your kind of event. The tabs follow the event's phases: **Before**, **During**, **After** and **Informative**. Tap a mode to see what it does, tick or untick it, then add them.

You can change the modes at any time from the console with **Edit modes**.

**3. Set up and rehearse in the console**

The console opens with your event as a **Draft**. Phones cannot join a draft, but you can set up every mode and see the result in the preview of a guest's phone.

![The console of a draft event, with the preview of a guest's phone on the left](https://docs.luce.show/docs/images/concepts/console-light.png)

**4. Publish and share**

Choose **Publish**. The publish window shows who can open the event and the show capacity, the number of phones that can join the show at once.

> [!WARNING]
>
> A published event cannot go back to being a draft, and who can open it stays as you set it. To take a published event down, cancel it.

Share the event's link. Guests open the page, answer Going or Maybe, and open the same page on their phone when the show starts.

![A published event page with its cover, date, the Going and Maybe buttons and the event's description](https://docs.luce.show/docs/images/concepts/event-page-light.png)

## Next steps

> [card] [Core concepts](https://docs.luce.show/concepts.md)
>
> How events, phases, modes and the big screen fit together.

> [card] [Manual mode](https://docs.luce.show/modes/manual.md)
>
> Send colours, gradients and media to every phone with a tap.


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