PCO Plan 1.6.0: the message document is matched by the plan's own name

The current item followed the live ProPresenter document by title alone,
and a sermon's document is named after the sermon — Waters names them
"YYMMDD Series Title - Part #" — never after its plan item. So the last
song stayed current through the whole message: North Attleboro on 20 Sept
spent 65 minutes on one song in two of its three services.

A live document that reads like the plan itself — its date code, series
title and part — now lands on the plan's message item: an item titled
Message, Sermon or Teaching, else the first item under such a header. A
date code naming another day is a firm no, so last week's sermon stays
unplaced. Position in the ProPresenter playlist breaks a tie between
equal names, only while the playlist mirrors the plan item for item, and
never places a document on its own.

The log now says what it never said: every feed drop and reconnect, which
item the message document will land on, what placed each item and how,
and a live document that is not in the plan.

matching.test.js: 27 checks built from both campuses' real 27 Sept plans
and ProPresenter playlists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

README.md

@@ -273,7 +273,14 @@ below. Nothing is installed without someone clicking.
   place and shows nothing, then appears when it is; it is never replaced by
   the module's default tile. Saving over an existing name asks first, and
   the server keeps the copy it replaced: **Restore previous** in Admin →
-  Saved layouts swaps it back (and swapping again undoes that).
+  Saved layouts swaps it back (and swapping again undoes that). The menu's
+  **Grid Size** stepper sets how many columns this browser cuts the board into —
+  8 to 24, 12 by default. Finer lets tiles be smaller so more fit across (a
+  4K wall), coarser suits a small screen read close up; row height follows,
+  so tiles keep their shape and simply change size. Going coarser, a tile
+  that no longer fits where it was moves to the first free spot rather than
+  onto another tile. It saves with the layout, so a named layout comes back
+  at the density it was arranged on.
 - Every tile has a **status dot**: green = live, amber = connecting,
   red = upstream unreachable (hover it for details). Tiles reconnect
   automatically.
@@ -321,7 +328,14 @@ below. Nothing is installed without someone clicking.
   description and item notes. When the ProPresenter module is running it
   follows that module's live item, highlights the matching plan item, dims
   what's done and shows the elapsed vs planned runtime and how far
-  ahead/behind the service is. Admin config is the connection: Planning
+  ahead/behind the service is. Items are matched by name — a document named
+  like the Planning Center item or its song, tags and all. The message is
+  the exception: a sermon's document is named after the sermon, so a live
+  document that reads like the plan itself — its date code, series title
+  and part, as in `260927 Where is Your Faith? - Part 6` — is taken as the
+  message and lands on the plan's message item (an item titled Message,
+  Sermon or Teaching, else the first item under such a header). Admin
+  config is the connection: Planning
   Center credentials (Personal Access Token app ID + secret, or an OAuth
   token), the service type (a list grouped by your Planning Center folders)
   and an optional pinned plan. Everything about the display is per tile

docs/MODULE-GUIDE.md

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ the app); its settings are kept for a later reinstall.
 | `client` | yes | Client entry file, loaded as an ES module. |
 | `server` | no | Server entry file (CommonJS), loaded with `require()`. |
 | `style` | no | A stylesheet the shell injects once per module. |
-| `minSize`, `defaultSize` | no | Tile size in grid cells (12 columns wide; rows are ~72 px). Defaults: min 1×1, default 4×3. |
+| `minSize`, `defaultSize` | no | Tile size in grid cells, declared for the default grid (12 columns, 72 px rows). Defaults: min 1×1, default 4×3. A dashboard may cut its board finer or coarser (8–24 columns, from the Layouts menu; row height follows). `defaultSize` is scaled to that density when a tile is added, so a new tile lands at about the size you meant; `minSize` is enforced in cells as declared, so on a finer grid a tile can be made smaller than it could at 12. |
 | `configSchema` | no | **Admin config** — server-wide settings (URLs, ports, keys) edited once at `/admin` for everyone. |
 | `instanceSchema` | no | **Per-tile settings** — chosen in each tile's gear menu and stored with that browser's layout (filters, text sizes, display options). They apply as they are changed, so keep them to display choices. |
 | `tiles` | no | Fixed multi-tile list for client-only modules; server modules export a dynamic `tiles()` instead. See **Presenting multiple tiles**. |

modules/pco-plan/matching.js

@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
 
 /**
  * Title matching for the PCO Plan module — the one answer to "is this
- * ProPresenter document that Planning Center thing?", used twice:
+ * ProPresenter document that Planning Center thing?", used three ways:
  *
  *   - mapping the document ProPresenter has live to a plan item (the
- *     highlight and the item runtimes), and
+ *     highlight and the item runtimes) — placeDocument(), below,
+ *   - recognising the message document, which is named after the sermon
+ *     and never after its plan item — the message rule, below, and
  *   - recognising the documents an admin picked as the service start / end
  *     cues (see service-timing.js).
  *
@@ -82,4 +84,176 @@ function isCue(liveName, cueDocument) {
   return Boolean(cueDocument) && similarity(liveName, cueDocument) >= TRIGGER_THRESHOLD;
 }
 
-module.exports = { MATCH_THRESHOLD, TRIGGER_THRESHOLD, cleanTitle, normalize, similarity, isCue };
+/* ── the message rule ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+   A sermon's ProPresenter document is named after the sermon, never after
+   the plan item that stands for it ("Message", "Resi Message"), so no name
+   comparison can place it — and the previous song stayed "current" through
+   a whole message. What the document's name does carry is the plan's own
+   identity. Waters names them "YYMMDD Series Title - Part #": the plan's
+   date, its series title and its title. A live document that reads like
+   the plan is the plan's message, and lands on the plan's message item,
+   however that item happens to be titled. */
+
+const MESSAGE_WORDS = /\b(message|sermon|teaching|homily)\b/i;
+const MESSAGE_WORD_ONLY = /^\s*(message|sermon|teaching|homily)\s*$/i;
+/** Undated, the name must read like "Series Title Part #" at least this closely… */
+const MESSAGE_THRESHOLD = 0.75;
+/** …dated with this plan's date, it need only resemble the series or the title. */
+const DATED_MESSAGE_THRESHOLD = 0.6;
+
+/** The leading "YYMMDD" / "YYYYMMDD" of a document name as a calendar day, or null. */
+function leadingDateCode(raw) {
+  const m = /^\s*(\d{8}|\d{6})(?!\d)/.exec(String(raw || ''));
+  if (!m) return null;
+  const code = m[1];
+  const y = code.length === 8 ? Number(code.slice(0, 4)) : 2000 + Number(code.slice(0, 2));
+  const mo = Number(code.slice(-4, -2));
+  const d = Number(code.slice(-2));
+  if (mo < 1 || mo > 12 || d < 1 || d > 31) return null;
+  return { y, m: mo, d };
+}
+
+/** The local calendar day of an epoch-ms instant, in the same shape. */
+function dayOf(ms) {
+  const t = new Date(Number(ms));
+  if (!Number.isFinite(t.getTime())) return null;
+  return { y: t.getFullYear(), m: t.getMonth() + 1, d: t.getDate() };
+}
+
+function sameDay(a, b) {
+  return Boolean(a && b) && a.y === b.y && a.m === b.m && a.d === b.d;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Does this live document read like the plan itself — "260927 Where is Your
+ * Faith? - Part 6" for the plan "Where is Your Faith?" / "Part 6" dated
+ * 27 Sept 2026? Returns { score, dated } or null.
+ *
+ * A date code naming another day is a firm no: last week's sermon is not
+ * this plan's message. A date code naming the plan's day is strong evidence,
+ * so the rest need only resemble the series or the title. Without a date
+ * the name must read like series + title together — and carry the title
+ * when the plan has both, so a series bumper ("Where is Your Faith?") is
+ * not taken for the sermon.
+ */
+function messageDocumentScore(name, plan) {
+  const series = String(plan?.seriesTitle || '').trim();
+  const title = String(plan?.title || '').trim();
+  if (!series && !title) return null;
+  const code = leadingDateCode(name);
+  const planDay = plan?.sortDate ? dayOf(plan.sortDate) : null;
+  if (code && planDay && !sameDay(code, planDay)) return null;
+  const dated = Boolean(code && planDay);
+  const full = [series, title].filter(Boolean).join(' ');
+  const fullScore = similarity(name, full);
+  if (dated) {
+    const score = Math.max(fullScore, series ? similarity(name, series) : 0, title ? similarity(name, title) : 0);
+    return score >= DATED_MESSAGE_THRESHOLD ? { score, dated: true } : null;
+  }
+  if (fullScore < MESSAGE_THRESHOLD) return null;
+  if (series && title && similarity(name, title) < DATED_MESSAGE_THRESHOLD) return null;
+  return { score: fullScore, dated: false };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The plan item that stands for the message: an item titled with the word
+ * ("Message", "Resi Message" — a bare "Message" first), else the first item
+ * under a header so titled (a "Sermon" section whose one item is the sermon's
+ * own title). Null when the plan has no such slot.
+ */
+function messageItemOf(items) {
+  let best = null;
+  let inSection = false;
+  for (const it of Array.isArray(items) ? items : []) {
+    if (!it) continue;
+    const title = String(it.title || '');
+    if (it.itemType === 'header') {
+      inSection = MESSAGE_WORDS.test(title);
+      continue;
+    }
+    const rank = MESSAGE_WORD_ONLY.test(title) ? 3 : MESSAGE_WORDS.test(title) ? 2 : inSection ? 1 : 0;
+    if (rank && (!best || rank > best.rank)) best = { item: it, rank };
+    if (rank === 3) break;
+  }
+  return best ? best.item : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Does ProPresenter's playlist mirror the plan item for item? ProPresenter
+ * builds a Planning Center playlist that way — every plan item, headers
+ * included, each flagged as PCO — until an operator adds something of their
+ * own (a song tag, say), which shifts every position after it. Same length,
+ * headers in the same places and every item PCO-flagged is the test.
+ */
+function playlistMirrorsPlan(ppItems, items) {
+  if (!Array.isArray(ppItems) || !Array.isArray(items) || !items.length || ppItems.length !== items.length) return false;
+  return ppItems.every((p, i) => Boolean(p?.isPco) && (p?.type === 'header') === (items[i]?.itemType === 'header'));
+}
+
+/** Best plan item by title, the ones ahead of the current item winning ties. */
+function bestByName(name, items, all, ctx) {
+  const currentIdx = items.findIndex((it) => it.id === ctx?.currentItemId);
+  const hint = ctx?.hint;
+  const wanted = hint && hint.mirror && Number.isInteger(hint.index) && hint.index >= 0 ? all[hint.index] : null;
+  let best = null;
+  for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i += 1) {
+    const item = items[i];
+    const score = Math.max(similarity(name, item.title), item.song ? similarity(name, item.song.title) : 0);
+    if (score < MATCH_THRESHOLD) continue;
+    // Distance ahead of the current item (wrapping so items behind rank last).
+    const dist = currentIdx < 0 ? i : (i - currentIdx + items.length) % items.length;
+    const atPosition = Boolean(wanted && item.id === wanted.id);
+    const candidate = { item, score, dist, atPosition };
+    if (!best || score > best.score + 0.001) {
+      best = candidate;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (Math.abs(score - best.score) > 0.001) continue;
+    if ((atPosition && !best.atPosition) || (atPosition === best.atPosition && dist < best.dist)) best = candidate;
+  }
+  return best ? { item: best.item, score: best.score, via: 'name' } : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Where a live ProPresenter document sits in the plan: { item, score, via }
+ * or null. `ctx` is { items, plan, currentItemId, hint }; `hint` (optional)
+ * is { index, mirror } — the document's position in the ProPresenter
+ * playlist and whether that playlist mirrors the plan (playlistMirrorsPlan).
+ *
+ * By name first: the item (or song) title most like the document's name,
+ * the ones ahead of the current item winning ties — a near miss lands on the
+ * right row. Then the message rule: a document that reads like the plan
+ * itself lands on the plan's message item. It overrides a name hit that is
+ * anything short of identical — a song called "Faith" must not catch
+ * "260927 Where is Your Faith? - Part 6" — outright when the document is
+ * dated with the plan's day, and when it reads better otherwise. Position
+ * is never a match on its own: it only breaks a tie between equally good
+ * names, and only while the playlist mirrors the plan.
+ */
+function placeDocument(name, ctx) {
+  const all = Array.isArray(ctx?.items) ? ctx.items : [];
+  const items = all.filter((it) => it && it.itemType !== 'header');
+  if (!items.length) return null;
+  const byName = bestByName(name, items, all, ctx);
+  const asMessage = messageDocumentScore(name, ctx?.plan);
+  const messageItem = asMessage ? messageItemOf(all) : null;
+  if (messageItem && (!byName || (byName.score < 0.999 && (asMessage.dated || asMessage.score > byName.score)))) {
+    return { item: messageItem, score: asMessage.score, via: asMessage.dated ? 'message document, dated' : 'message document' };
+  }
+  return byName;
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  MATCH_THRESHOLD,
+  TRIGGER_THRESHOLD,
+  MESSAGE_THRESHOLD,
+  cleanTitle,
+  normalize,
+  similarity,
+  isCue,
+  leadingDateCode,
+  messageDocumentScore,
+  messageItemOf,
+  playlistMirrorsPlan,
+  placeDocument,
+};

modules/pco-plan/matching.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,280 @@
+'use strict';
+
+/**
+ * Unit tests for the PCO Plan module's document matching — placing what
+ * ProPresenter has live onto a plan item, and the message rule.
+ *
+ *   node modules/pco-plan/matching.test.js
+ *
+ * Plain Node, no dependencies; exits non-zero on the first failure. The two
+ * plans are the campuses' real 27 Sept 2026 plans and ProPresenter playlists
+ * as they stood on 22 Sept, so the expectations read like a Sunday would.
+ */
+
+const assert = require('assert');
+const {
+  MESSAGE_THRESHOLD,
+  leadingDateCode,
+  messageDocumentScore,
+  messageItemOf,
+  playlistMirrorsPlan,
+  placeDocument,
+} = require('./matching');
+
+let passed = 0;
+function test(name, fn) {
+  try {
+    fn();
+    passed += 1;
+    console.log(`  ok   ${name}`);
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.log(`  FAIL ${name}\n       ${err.message}`);
+    process.exitCode = 1;
+    throw err;
+  }
+}
+
+const SUNDAY = new Date(2026, 8, 27, 9, 30).getTime(); // 27 Sept 2026, 9:30 local — the plan's sort date
+const PLAN = { id: '91274523', title: 'Part 6', seriesTitle: 'Where is Your Faith?', sortDate: SUNDAY };
+
+const header = (id, title) => ({ id, itemType: 'header', title, song: null });
+const item = (id, title, itemType = 'item', song = null) => ({ id, itemType, title, song: song ? { title: song } : null });
+const pp = (name, type = 'presentation', isPco = true) => ({ name, type, isPco, isHidden: false });
+
+// North Attleboro — the message is an item called "Message", linked in
+// ProPresenter to the bumper video; the sermon slides are their own document.
+const NA = [
+  header('h0', 'Doors Open'),
+  item('1', 'Preservice'),
+  item('2', '5 Minute Countdown', 'media'),
+  item('3', 'MC Announcements', 'media'),
+  header('h4', 'Worship'),
+  item('5', 'Call To Worship', 'media'),
+  item('6', 'Alleluia', 'song', 'Alleluia'),
+  item('7', 'What a God', 'song', 'What a God'),
+  item('8', 'Baptisms', 'media'),
+  item('9', 'Promised Land', 'song', 'Promised Land'),
+  item('10', 'Be Praised', 'song', 'Be Praised'),
+  header('h11', 'Message'),
+  item('12', 'Message'),
+  item('13', 'Standing Salvation Moment', 'media'),
+  header('h14', 'Closing'),
+  item('15', 'Postservice', 'song', '-Postservice'),
+];
+const NA_PP = [
+  pp('Doors Open', 'header'), pp('Preservice'), pp('5 Minute Countdown'), pp('MC Announcements'),
+  pp('Worship', 'header'), pp('Call To Worship'), pp('Alleluia - [ Full ]'), pp('What a God - [ Full ]'),
+  pp('Baptisms'), pp('Promised Land - [ Full ]'), pp('Be Praised - [ Full ]'),
+  pp('Message', 'header'), pp('Message Bumper'), pp('Standing Salvation Moment'),
+  pp('Closing', 'header'), pp('Postservice'),
+];
+
+// Apollo Beach — the message is the media item "Resi Message".
+const AB = [
+  item('0', 'Pre Service Meeting', 'media'),
+  header('h1', 'Doors Open'),
+  item('2', 'Pre Service', 'media'),
+  item('3', '5 Minute Countdown', 'media'),
+  item('4', 'MC Announcements', 'media'),
+  header('h5', 'Worship'),
+  item('6', 'Call To Worship', 'media'),
+  item('7', 'Alleluia', 'song', 'Alleluia'),
+  item('8', 'What a God', 'song', 'What a God'),
+  item('9', 'The Blood', 'song', 'The Blood'),
+  item('10', 'Be Praised (feat. Kymberli Joye)', 'song', 'Be Praised'),
+  header('h11', 'Message'),
+  item('12', 'Resi Message', 'media'),
+  item('13', 'Standing Salvation Moment', 'media'),
+  header('h14', 'Closing'),
+  item('15', 'Post Service', 'media'),
+];
+
+const SERMON = '260927 Where is Your Faith? - Part 6';
+const place = (name, items, extra = {}) => placeDocument(name, { items, plan: PLAN, currentItemId: '', ...extra });
+const titleOf = (hit) => (hit ? hit.item.title : null);
+
+console.log('date codes');
+
+test('YYMMDD and YYYYMMDD lead a document name; anything else is not a date', () => {
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(leadingDateCode(SERMON), { y: 2026, m: 9, d: 27 });
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(leadingDateCode('20260927 Where is Your Faith? - Part 6'), { y: 2026, m: 9, d: 27 });
+  assert.strictEqual(leadingDateCode('9-27-26 Where is Your Faith?'), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(leadingDateCode('1234567 seven digits'), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(leadingDateCode('261340 no such month'), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(leadingDateCode('Alleluia'), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(leadingDateCode(''), null);
+});
+
+console.log('the message rule');
+
+test('a document named like the plan, dated with its day, is the message', () => {
+  const hit = messageDocumentScore(SERMON, PLAN);
+  assert.ok(hit, 'recognised');
+  assert.strictEqual(hit.dated, true);
+  assert.strictEqual(hit.score, 1);
+});
+
+test("last week's document is not this plan's message", () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore('260920 Where is Your Faith? - Part 5', PLAN), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore('260920 Where is Your Faith? - Part 6', PLAN), null, 'even with the right part: the date names another day');
+});
+
+test('undated, series and part together still read as the message', () => {
+  const plain = messageDocumentScore('Where is Your Faith? - Part 6', PLAN);
+  assert.ok(plain && plain.dated === false && plain.score === 1);
+  const tagged = messageDocumentScore('Where Is Your Faith - Part 6 - [ Notes ]', PLAN);
+  assert.ok(tagged && tagged.score >= MESSAGE_THRESHOLD, 'tags and punctuation do not matter');
+});
+
+test('a series bumper is not the sermon', () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore('Where is Your Faith?', PLAN), null, 'the series alone, undated');
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore('Where is Your Faith? Bumper', PLAN), null);
+});
+
+test("dated with the plan's day, the part alone is enough", () => {
+  const hit = messageDocumentScore('260927 Part 6', PLAN);
+  assert.ok(hit && hit.dated);
+});
+
+test('a dated document about something else is not the message', () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore('260927 Announcements', PLAN), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore('260927 Baptism Video', PLAN), null);
+});
+
+test('songs are not the message', () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore('What a God - [ Full ]', PLAN), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore('Alleluia', PLAN), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore('Message Bumper', PLAN), null);
+});
+
+test('a plan with neither series nor title has no message document', () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore(SERMON, { sortDate: SUNDAY }), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(messageDocumentScore(SERMON, null), null);
+});
+
+test('a plan without a date still recognises its own name', () => {
+  const hit = messageDocumentScore(SERMON, { title: 'Part 6', seriesTitle: 'Where is Your Faith?' });
+  assert.ok(hit && hit.dated === false && hit.score === 1);
+});
+
+console.log('the message item');
+
+test('an item called Message is the message item; so is Resi Message', () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(messageItemOf(NA).id, '12');
+  assert.strictEqual(messageItemOf(AB).id, '12');
+});
+
+test('a bare "Message" beats an item that only contains the word', () => {
+  const withBumper = [...NA.slice(0, 12), item('12a', 'Message Bumper', 'media'), ...NA.slice(12)];
+  assert.strictEqual(messageItemOf(withBumper).id, '12');
+  assert.strictEqual(messageItemOf([item('a', 'Message Bumper', 'media')]).id, 'a', 'alone, it is the slot');
+});
+
+test('under a Sermon header, the first item is the message whatever it is called', () => {
+  const plan = [header('h', 'Worship'), item('1', 'Alleluia', 'song', 'Alleluia'), header('s', 'Sermon'), item('2', 'Living Hope'), item('3', 'Response')];
+  assert.strictEqual(messageItemOf(plan).id, '2');
+});
+
+test('a plan without a message slot has none', () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(messageItemOf([header('h', 'Worship'), item('1', 'Alleluia', 'song', 'Alleluia')]), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(messageItemOf([header('m', 'Message')]), null, 'a header with nothing under it');
+  assert.strictEqual(messageItemOf([]), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(messageItemOf(null), null);
+});
+
+console.log('the playlist mirror');
+
+test("ProPresenter's Planning Center playlist mirrors the plan, headers and all", () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(playlistMirrorsPlan(NA_PP, NA), true);
+});
+
+test('an item the operator added, a header out of place or a non-PCO item breaks the mirror', () => {
+  const extra = [...NA_PP.slice(0, 10), pp('The Blood TAG'), ...NA_PP.slice(10)];
+  assert.strictEqual(playlistMirrorsPlan(extra, NA), false, 'a song tag shifts everything after it');
+  const shifted = [...NA_PP];
+  [shifted[3], shifted[4]] = [shifted[4], shifted[3]];
+  assert.strictEqual(playlistMirrorsPlan(shifted, NA), false);
+  const local = NA_PP.map((x, i) => (i === 8 ? pp('Baptisms', 'presentation', false) : x));
+  assert.strictEqual(playlistMirrorsPlan(local, NA), false);
+  assert.strictEqual(playlistMirrorsPlan([], []), false);
+  assert.strictEqual(playlistMirrorsPlan(null, NA), false);
+});
+
+console.log('placing what is live');
+
+test('songs and media land by name, tags and all', () => {
+  const god = place('What a God - [ Full ]', NA);
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(god), 'What a God');
+  assert.strictEqual(god.via, 'name');
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(place('Resi Message - [ MEDIA ]', AB)), 'Resi Message');
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(place('Greatly To Be Praised - [ Full ]', AB)), 'Be Praised (feat. Kymberli Joye)', 'by the song title');
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(place('Pre Service - [ Sunday ]', AB)), 'Pre Service');
+});
+
+test('the sermon document lands on the message item at both campuses', () => {
+  const na = place(SERMON, NA);
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(na), 'Message');
+  assert.strictEqual(na.via, 'message document, dated');
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(place(SERMON, AB)), 'Resi Message');
+  assert.strictEqual(place('Where is Your Faith? - Part 6', NA).via, 'message document', 'undated still lands, and says so');
+});
+
+test('the bumper lands on the message item too, by name', () => {
+  const hit = place('Message Bumper', NA);
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(hit), 'Message');
+  assert.strictEqual(hit.via, 'name');
+});
+
+test('a song called Faith does not catch the sermon', () => {
+  const trap = [...NA.slice(0, 11), item('f', 'Faith', 'song', 'Faith'), ...NA.slice(11)];
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(place('Faith - [ Full ]', trap)), 'Faith', 'the song itself still lands');
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(place(SERMON, trap)), 'Message', 'dated: the message wins outright');
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(place('Where is Your Faith? - Part 6', trap)), 'Message', 'undated: it reads better than the song');
+});
+
+test('an item titled exactly like the document wins over the message slot', () => {
+  const titled = [...NA.slice(0, 12), item('s', 'Where is Your Faith? - Part 6'), ...NA.slice(12)];
+  assert.strictEqual(place(SERMON, titled).item.id, 's');
+});
+
+test('a plan without a message slot leaves the sermon document unplaced', () => {
+  const noSlot = NA.filter((it) => it.id !== '12' && it.id !== 'h11');
+  assert.strictEqual(place(SERMON, noSlot), null);
+});
+
+test("an unplanned document, or last week's sermon, lands nowhere", () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(place('Offering Slide', NA), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(place('260920 Where is Your Faith? - Part 5', NA), null);
+});
+
+test('nothing to place on an empty plan', () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(place(SERMON, []), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(place(SERMON, [header('h', 'Message')]), null);
+});
+
+// The same song twice: a reprise after "What a God".
+const REPRISE = [...NA.slice(0, 8), item('6b', 'Alleluia', 'song', 'Alleluia'), ...NA.slice(8)];
+const REPRISE_PP = [...NA_PP.slice(0, 8), pp('Alleluia - [ Reprise ]'), ...NA_PP.slice(8)];
+
+test('a tie between equal names goes to the one ahead of the current item', () => {
+  assert.strictEqual(place('Alleluia - [ Full ]', REPRISE).item.id, '6', 'nothing current yet: the first');
+  assert.strictEqual(place('Alleluia - [ Full ]', REPRISE, { currentItemId: '7' }).item.id, '6b', 'after What a God: the reprise');
+  assert.strictEqual(place('Alleluia - [ Full ]', REPRISE, { currentItemId: '6b' }).item.id, '6b', 'the current one keeps a tie');
+});
+
+test('position breaks a tie only while the playlist mirrors the plan', () => {
+  const mirror = playlistMirrorsPlan(REPRISE_PP, REPRISE);
+  assert.strictEqual(mirror, true);
+  assert.strictEqual(place('Alleluia - [ Reprise ]', REPRISE, { hint: { index: 8, mirror } }).item.id, '6b');
+  assert.strictEqual(place('Alleluia - [ Full ]', REPRISE, { hint: { index: 6, mirror } }).item.id, '6');
+  assert.strictEqual(place('Alleluia - [ Full ]', REPRISE, { currentItemId: '7', hint: { index: 6, mirror } }).item.id, '6', 'position wins the tie over "ahead"');
+  assert.strictEqual(place('Alleluia - [ Reprise ]', REPRISE, { hint: { index: 8, mirror: false } }).item.id, '6', 'no mirror: back to "ahead"');
+});
+
+test('position never places a document on its own', () => {
+  const mirror = playlistMirrorsPlan(NA_PP, NA);
+  assert.strictEqual(place('Offering Slide', NA, { hint: { index: 8, mirror } }), null);
+  assert.strictEqual(titleOf(place('What a God - [ Full ]', NA, { hint: { index: 12, mirror } })), 'What a God', 'a wrong position cannot move a clear name');
+});
+
+console.log(`\n${passed} tests passed`);

modules/pco-plan/module.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "id": "pco-plan",
   "name": "PCO Plan",
-  "version": "1.5.0",
+  "version": "1.6.0",
   "proddash": ">=1.4.0",
   "description": "Order of service from Planning Center Services",
   "provides": [

modules/pco-plan/server.js

@@ -33,8 +33,12 @@
  * Following ProPresenter: instead of talking to ProPresenter a second time,
  * this module reads the propresenter-now-next module's own SSE feed over
  * loopback (/api/modules/propresenter-now-next/stream, on shell.port) and
- * matches the live presentation name to a plan item. Item start/end
+ * places the live document on a plan item (matching.js placeDocument): by
- * timestamps are tracked here, once, so every tile agrees on the runtime.
+ * name, or — for the sermon, whose document is named after the sermon and
+ * never after its plan item — by reading like the plan itself ("YYMMDD
+ * Series Title - Part #"), which lands it on the plan's message item. Item
+ * start/end timestamps are tracked here, once, so every tile agrees on the
+ * runtime.
  *
  * Service timing: a plan's services (9:00, 11:00…) take turns owning the
  * service clock — the rules live in service-timing.js. A service starts at
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@ const http = require('http');
 const fs = require('fs');
 const os = require('os');
 const path = require('path');
-const { MATCH_THRESHOLD, similarity } = require('./matching');
+const { placeDocument, messageItemOf, playlistMirrorsPlan } = require('./matching');
 const {
   MINUTE,
   serviceTimes,
@@ -434,6 +438,8 @@ module.exports = {
     let inFlight = null;
     let lastFrame = '';
     let lastTimersSig = '';
+    let lastMessageItemId = null;
+    let lastMatchError = '';
 
     /* — broadcasting — */
 
@@ -582,6 +588,7 @@ module.exports = {
       }
       state.plan = plan;
       state.items = items;
+      noteMessageItem(items);
       state.reachable = true;
       state.lastError = '';
       state.lastFetched = Date.now();
@@ -596,6 +603,17 @@ module.exports = {
       syncServiceSafe(Date.now(), null);
     }
 
+    /** Say, once per plan, which item a document named like the plan will land on. */
+    function noteMessageItem(items) {
+      const msg = messageItemOf(items);
+      const id = msg ? msg.id : '';
+      if (id === lastMessageItemId) return;
+      lastMessageItemId = id;
+      log(msg
+        ? `message item: "${msg.title}" — a live document named like this plan (its date, series and part) lands here`
+        : 'no message item in this plan — a document named like the plan has nowhere to land');
+    }
+
     /* — item note categories (a tile's "Item notes" → Categories switches) — */
 
     let noteCategories = { at: 0, options: [] }; // the last good answer from Planning Center
@@ -996,36 +1014,29 @@ module.exports = {
       };
       lastLiveName = keep.activeName || '';
       if (follow && keep.activeName) {
-        const hit = matchItem(keep.activeName);
+        const hit = matchItem(keep.activeName, hintFrom(lastView));
         state.live.matched = Boolean(hit);
         if (hit) {
           state.live.currentScore = hit.score;
-          startItem(hit.item.id);
+          startItem(hit.item.id, keep.activeName, hit);
         }
       }
     }
 
-    /** Best plan item for a live presentation name, preferring the ones ahead of us. */
+    /**
-    function matchItem(name) {
+     * The plan item a live document stands for — { item, score, via } or
-      const items = state.items.filter((it) => it.itemType !== 'header');
+     * null. The rules live in matching.js (placeDocument): by name, then the
-      if (!items.length) return null;
+     * message rule for a document named like the plan itself; the playlist
-      const currentIdx = items.findIndex((it) => it.id === state.live.currentItemId);
+     * position only breaks ties, and only while the playlist mirrors the plan.
-      let best = null;
+     */
-      for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i += 1) {
+    function matchItem(name, hint) {
-        const item = items[i];
+      return placeDocument(name, { items: state.items, plan: state.plan, currentItemId: state.live.currentItemId, hint });
-        const score = Math.max(similarity(name, item.title), item.song ? similarity(name, item.song.title) : 0);
-        if (score < MATCH_THRESHOLD) continue;
-        // Distance ahead of the current item (wrapping so items behind rank last).
-        const dist = currentIdx < 0 ? i : (i - currentIdx + items.length) % items.length;
-        if (
-          !best
-          || score > best.score + 0.001
-          || (Math.abs(score - best.score) <= 0.001 && dist < best.dist)
-        ) {
-          best = { item, score, dist };
     }
-      }
+
-      return best;
+    /** The live item's place in ProPresenter's playlist, and whether that playlist mirrors the plan. */
+    function hintFrom(view) {
+      const index = Number.isInteger(view?.activeIndex) ? view.activeIndex : -1;
+      return { index, mirror: index >= 0 && playlistMirrorsPlan(view?.items, state.items) };
     }
 
     /** Remember a document ProPresenter put live, most recent first, for the admin selects. */
@@ -1077,6 +1088,7 @@ module.exports = {
     function applyLiveView(view) {
       lastView = view && typeof view === 'object' ? view : null;
       const live = state.live;
+      if (!live.available) log('following the ProPresenter module feed');
       live.available = true;
       live.reason = '';
       live.ppEnabled = Boolean(view?.enabled);
@@ -1095,23 +1107,40 @@ module.exports = {
         broadcast(); // reachability may have changed; the frame check keeps it quiet otherwise
         return;
       }
-      lastLiveName = name;
       rememberDocument(name);
       if (follow) {
-        const hit = matchItem(name);
+        try {
+          const hit = matchItem(name, hintFrom(view));
           live.matched = Boolean(hit);
           if (hit) {
             live.currentScore = hit.score;
-          if (hit.item.id !== live.currentItemId) startItem(hit.item.id);
+            if (hit.item.id !== live.currentItemId) startItem(hit.item.id, name, hit);
+          } else {
+            // Said in the log, because on the wall it looks like the plan
+            // stopped following: the highlight stays where it was.
+            const staying = state.items.find((it) => it.id === live.currentItemId);
+            log(`live document "${name}" is not in the plan — ${staying ? `"${staying.title}" stays current` : 'no current item'}`);
+          }
+          lastMatchError = '';
+        } catch (err) {
+          // Never silent: a matcher that throws would otherwise leave the
+          // highlight stuck with nothing in the log to say why.
+          const msg = err?.message || String(err);
+          if (msg !== lastMatchError) {
+            lastMatchError = msg;
+            log(`matching "${name}" failed: ${msg}`);
           }
         }
+      }
+      lastLiveName = name;
       // The same document is also a possible service start / end cue.
       syncServiceSafe(Date.now(), name);
       broadcast();
       broadcastTimers();
     }
 
-    function startItem(itemId) {
+    /** Make an item current; `liveName` and `hit` say what placed it, for the log. */
+    function startItem(itemId, liveName, hit) {
       const live = state.live;
       const now = Date.now();
       if (live.currentItemId && live.history[live.currentItemId] && !live.history[live.currentItemId].endedAt) {
@@ -1120,12 +1149,18 @@ module.exports = {
       live.currentItemId = itemId;
       live.history[itemId] = { startedAt: now, endedAt: 0 };
       const item = state.items.find((it) => it.id === itemId);
-      log(`live item → ${item?.title || itemId}`);
+      const how = hit
+        ? ` (${hit.via}${hit.via === 'name' ? ` ${Number(hit.score).toFixed(2)}` : ''}${liveName ? `: "${liveName}"` : ''})`
+        : '';
+      log(`live item → ${item?.title || itemId}${how}`);
     }
 
     function nowNextUnavailable(reason, retryMs) {
       const live = state.live;
       if (live.available || live.reason !== reason) {
+        // Every drop is in the log: a highlight that stopped moving is
+        // otherwise indistinguishable from a feed that went away.
+        log(`ProPresenter module feed unavailable — ${reason}`);
         live.available = false;
         live.reason = reason;
         live.ppReachable = false;

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "proddash",
-  "version": "1.8.0",
+  "version": "1.9.0",
   "private": true,
   "description": "Modular production dashboard for Waters Church \u2014 zero-dependency Node server + vanilla client",
   "license": "UNLICENSED",

public/shell.js

@@ -5,7 +5,18 @@
    settings) autosaves to this browser's localStorage — every browser is fully
    independent. Modules render inside tile bodies and never touch the shell.  */
 
-const COLS = 12;
+/* ── grid density ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+   How many columns the board is cut into. Twelve is the default; a finer
+   grid lets tiles be smaller and more of them fit across (a 4K wall), a
+   coarser one suits a small screen read close up. It is this browser's
+   choice — two displays at one location may want different densities — so
+   it saves with the layout, local and named, and a named layout comes back
+   at the density it was arranged on. Row height follows the column width, so
+   cells keep their shape: a 3×2 tile is still a 3×2 tile, only smaller. */
+const GRID_STEPS = [8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24];
+const GRID_DEFAULT = 12;
+const CELL_H_DEFAULT = 72; // px per row at the default density
+let COLS = GRID_DEFAULT;
 const LS_LAYOUT = 'proddash:layout';
 
 const grid = document.getElementById('grid');
@@ -224,7 +235,7 @@ const LS_LAYOUT_PREVIOUS = LS_LAYOUT + '.previous';
 
 function saveLayout() {
   try {
-    const next = JSON.stringify({ v: 1, autoHideHeads, tiles });
+    const next = JSON.stringify({ v: 1, autoHideHeads, gridCols: COLS, tiles });
     const current = localStorage.getItem(LS_LAYOUT);
     if (current && current !== next) localStorage.setItem(LS_LAYOUT_BACKUP, current);
     localStorage.setItem(LS_LAYOUT, next);
@@ -275,6 +286,87 @@ function newId() {
 
 /* ── grid geometry & collision ──────────────────────────────────────── */
 
+function normalizeGridCols(value) {
+  const n = Number(value);
+  return GRID_STEPS.includes(n) ? n : GRID_DEFAULT;
+}
+
+function cellHeightFor(cols) {
+  return Math.round((CELL_H_DEFAULT * GRID_DEFAULT) / cols);
+}
+
+/** Cut the board into `cols` columns. Tiles keep their grid units — the
+    board gets denser or coarser and everything on it changes size with it.
+    A tile now past the right edge is pulled back in, and one that would then
+    sit on another moves to the first free spot instead. */
+function setGridCols(value, { save = true } = {}) {
+  const next = normalizeGridCols(value);
+  const changed = next !== COLS;
+  COLS = next;
+  grid.style.gridTemplateColumns = `repeat(${COLS}, minmax(0, 1fr))`;
+  document.documentElement.style.setProperty('--cell-h', cellHeightFor(COLS) + 'px');
+  if (changed) {
+    // A coarser board may not have room for every tile where it was. Settle
+    // them in reading order: pull a tile past the right edge back in, and
+    // give one that would then land on a tile already settled the first free
+    // spot instead — tiles never overlap here, any more than under a drag.
+    const settled = [];
+    for (const tile of tiles.slice().sort((a, b) => a.y - b.y || a.x - b.x)) {
+      tile.w = Math.max(1, Math.min(COLS, tile.w));
+      tile.x = Math.max(0, Math.min(COLS - tile.w, tile.x));
+      if (settled.some((s) => overlaps(tile, s))) Object.assign(tile, spotAmong(tile.w, tile.h, settled));
+      settled.push(tile);
+      applyRect(tile);
+      notifyResize(tile);
+    }
+    rebuildDividers();
+    if (document.body.classList.contains('fullscreen')) applyFullscreenFit();
+  }
+  if (save) saveLayout();
+}
+
+const STEP_MINUS_SVG = '<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2.6" stroke-linecap="round" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M5 12h14"/></svg>';
+const STEP_PLUS_SVG = '<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2.6" stroke-linecap="round" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M12 5v14M5 12h14"/></svg>';
+
+/** The Layouts menu's density row — Grid Size  − 12 + — which steps without
+    closing the menu, so the board can be watched changing behind it. */
+function gridStepper() {
+  const row = document.createElement('div');
+  row.className = 'menu-stepper';
+  const label = document.createElement('span');
+  label.className = 'menu-stepper-label';
+  label.textContent = 'Grid Size';
+  const minus = document.createElement('button');
+  minus.type = 'button';
+  minus.className = 'menu-stepper-btn';
+  minus.setAttribute('data-tip', 'Coarser');
+  minus.innerHTML = STEP_MINUS_SVG;
+  const value = document.createElement('span');
+  value.className = 'menu-stepper-value';
+  const plus = document.createElement('button');
+  plus.type = 'button';
+  plus.className = 'menu-stepper-btn';
+  plus.setAttribute('data-tip', 'Finer');
+  plus.innerHTML = STEP_PLUS_SVG;
+  const paint = () => {
+    const i = GRID_STEPS.indexOf(COLS);
+    value.textContent = String(COLS);
+    minus.disabled = i <= 0;
+    plus.disabled = i >= GRID_STEPS.length - 1;
+  };
+  const step = (dir) => {
+    const i = GRID_STEPS.indexOf(COLS) + dir;
+    if (i < 0 || i >= GRID_STEPS.length) return;
+    setGridCols(GRID_STEPS[i]);
+    paint();
+  };
+  minus.addEventListener('click', () => step(-1));
+  plus.addEventListener('click', () => step(1));
+  paint();
+  row.append(label, minus, value, plus);
+  return row;
+}
+
 function cellMetrics() {
   const style = getComputedStyle(grid);
   const gapRaw = parseFloat(style.columnGap);
@@ -297,6 +389,17 @@ function isFree(rect, excludeId) {
   return isFreeExcept(rect, [excludeId]);
 }
 
+/** First spot, scanning top-to-bottom, left-to-right, clear of these tiles. */
+function spotAmong(w, h, others) {
+  for (let y = 0; y < 400; y += 1) {
+    for (let x = 0; x <= COLS - w; x += 1) {
+      const rect = { x, y, w, h };
+      if (!others.some((o) => overlaps(rect, o))) return { x, y };
+    }
+  }
+  return { x: 0, y: 0 };
+}
+
 /** First free spot scanning top-to-bottom, left-to-right. */
 function findSpot(w, h) {
   for (let y = 0; y < 200; y += 1) {
@@ -990,10 +1093,14 @@ function addTile(moduleId, entry = null) {
     toast(`${entry.name} is already on this dashboard`);
     return;
   }
+  // Sizes are declared for the default twelve-column grid; scaled so a new
+  // tile lands at about the size its author meant, whatever the density here.
+  const scale = COLS / GRID_DEFAULT;
   const defaultSize = entry?.defaultSize || man?.defaultSize;
+  const floor = minSizeOf({ module: moduleId, minSize: entry?.minSize });
   const size = {
-    w: Math.max(1, Math.min(COLS, defaultSize?.w || 4)),
+    w: Math.max(floor.w, 1, Math.min(COLS, Math.round((defaultSize?.w || 4) * scale))),
-    h: Math.max(1, defaultSize?.h || 3),
+    h: Math.max(floor.h, 1, Math.round((defaultSize?.h || 3) * scale)),
   };
   const spot = findSpot(size.w, size.h);
   const settings = {};
@@ -1991,6 +2098,8 @@ function renderLayout(layout) {
   // "reset" can simply hand over no tiles.
   const list = Array.isArray(layout) ? layout : (layout?.tiles || []);
   clearAllTiles();
+  // Density first: the tiles are clamped and placed against it.
+  if (!Array.isArray(layout)) setGridCols(layout?.gridCols ?? GRID_DEFAULT, { save: false });
   tiles = list.map(sanitizeTile);
   if (!Array.isArray(layout)) setAutoHideHeads(Boolean(layout?.autoHideHeads), { save: false });
   for (const tile of tiles) if (tileIsOffered(tile)) buildTile(tile);
@@ -2057,6 +2166,13 @@ function renderAddMenu(menu) {
 wireDropdown('layout-btn', 'layout-menu', async (menu, stillOpen) => {
   menu.innerHTML = '';
 
+  // Density first: the one thing in here that is not a layout but the board
+  // the layouts are arranged on.
+  menu.appendChild(gridStepper());
+  const stepperDivider = document.createElement('div');
+  stepperDivider.className = 'menu-divider';
+  menu.appendChild(stepperDivider);
+
   menu.appendChild(menuItem('Save as named layout…', async () => {
     menu.hidden = true;
     if (!tiles.length) {
@@ -2088,7 +2204,7 @@ wireDropdown('layout-btn', 'layout-menu', async (menu, stillOpen) => {
       const res = await fetch('/api/layouts/' + encodeURIComponent(name), {
         method: 'PUT',
         headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
-        body: JSON.stringify({ layout: { autoHideHeads, tiles } }),
+        body: JSON.stringify({ layout: { autoHideHeads, gridCols: COLS, tiles } }),
       });
       const body = await res.json().catch(() => ({}));
       if (!res.ok) throw new Error(body.error || 'Save failed (' + res.status + ')');
@@ -2136,15 +2252,17 @@ wireDropdown('layout-btn', 'layout-menu', async (menu, stillOpen) => {
         // does not live-link browsers together.
         let outgoing = null;
         try { outgoing = localStorage.getItem(LS_LAYOUT); } catch { /* fine */ }
+        const gridBefore = COLS;
         renderLayout(body.layout);
         saveLayout();
         try { if (outgoing) localStorage.setItem(LS_LAYOUT_PREVIOUS, outgoing); } catch { /* fine */ }
         const unshown = unshownTileNames();
         const count = `${tiles.length} tile${tiles.length === 1 ? '' : 's'}`;
+        const gridNote = COLS !== gridBefore ? ` on a ${COLS}-column grid` : '';
         const note = unshown.length
           ? `, ${unshown.length} not shown — ${unshown.join(', ')} ${unshown.length === 1 ? 'isn’t' : 'aren’t'} offered right now`
           : '';
-        toast(`Loaded “${l.name}”: ${count}${note}`, false, {
+        toast(`Loaded “${l.name}”: ${count}${gridNote}${note}`, false, {
           ms: unshown.length ? 10000 : 7000,
           action: outgoing ? {
             label: 'Undo',
@@ -2300,7 +2418,8 @@ function applyFullscreenFit() {
 }
 
 function clearFullscreenFit() {
-  grid.style.gridTemplateColumns = '';
+  // Back to this browser's density, not the stylesheet's twelve.
+  grid.style.gridTemplateColumns = `repeat(${COLS}, minmax(0, 1fr))`;
   grid.style.gridAutoRows = '';
   gridwrap.classList.remove('no-scroll');
   for (const tile of tiles) {

public/style.css

@@ -187,6 +187,36 @@ body.menu-hidden #topbar {
   white-space: normal;
 }
 .menu-divider { height: 1px; background: var(--border); margin: 5px 4px; }
+
+/* the Layouts menu's grid-density row: Grid Size  − 12 + */
+.menu-stepper {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 8px;
+  padding: 6px 10px 8px;
+  font-size: 13px;
+}
+.menu-stepper-label { flex: 1; }
+.menu-stepper-btn {
+  width: 26px;
+  height: 26px;
+  display: inline-flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: center;
+  background: var(--bg);
+  border: 1px solid var(--border);
+  border-radius: 6px;
+  color: var(--text);
+  cursor: pointer;
+}
+.menu-stepper-btn:hover { border-color: var(--muted); }
+.menu-stepper-btn[disabled] { opacity: 0.35; cursor: default; }
+.menu-stepper-btn svg { width: 12px; height: 12px; display: block; }
+.menu-stepper-value {
+  min-width: 28px;
+  text-align: center;
+  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
+}
 .menu-title {
   padding: 6px 10px 3px;
   color: var(--muted);

server.js

@@ -1619,6 +1619,7 @@ function previousLayoutPath(name) {
    so an old file does not haunt a new client. */
 
 const LAYOUT_VERSION = 2;
+const GRID_STEPS = [8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24]; // the shell's grid densities
 const MAX_LAYOUT_TILES = 100;
 const KNOWN_TILE_FIELDS = new Set(['id', 'module', 'x', 'y', 'w', 'h', 'settings', 'variant', 'title', 'headPinned', 'minSize']);
 const RETIRED_TILE_FIELDS = new Set(['headHidden']);
@@ -1644,6 +1645,9 @@ function sanitizeLayout(raw) {
     // Whether tile title bars auto-hide is part of how a dashboard is
     // arranged, so it travels with the layout like the tiles themselves.
     autoHideHeads: Boolean(raw?.autoHideHeads),
+    // The grid density the layout was arranged on, when it says and it is one
+    // the shell knows; a browser loading it cuts its board the same way.
+    ...(GRID_STEPS.includes(Number(raw?.gridCols)) ? { gridCols: Number(raw.gridCols) } : {}),
     tiles: tiles.map((t) => {
       const tile = {
         id: String(t?.id || ''),

tools/layout-roundtrip.test.js

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ async function waitFor(url, ms = 15000) {
       headHidden: true,
     };
 
-    let r = await api('/api/layouts/Booth%20A', { method: 'PUT', body: JSON.stringify({ layout: { autoHideHeads: true, tiles: [tile] } }) });
+    let r = await api('/api/layouts/Booth%20A', { method: 'PUT', body: JSON.stringify({ layout: { autoHideHeads: true, gridCols: 16, tiles: [tile] } }) });
     assert.equal(r.status, 200, 'save: ' + JSON.stringify(r.body));
     assert.equal(r.body.replaced, false, 'a first save replaces nothing');
 
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ async function waitFor(url, ms = 15000) {
     const got = r.body.layout;
     assert.equal(got.v, 2, 'the file carries a schema version');
     assert.equal(got.autoHideHeads, true);
+    assert.equal(got.gridCols, 16, 'grid density travels with the layout');
     const t = got.tiles[0];
     for (const k of ['id', 'module', 'x', 'y', 'w', 'h', 'variant', 'title', 'headPinned']) assert.deepEqual(t[k], tile[k], k);
     assert.deepEqual(t.settings, tile.settings, 'settings');
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ async function waitFor(url, ms = 15000) {
     assert.equal('headHidden' in t, false, 'a retired field is dropped');
 
     // Saving over the name keeps the copy it replaced.
-    r = await api('/api/layouts/Booth%20A', { method: 'PUT', body: JSON.stringify({ layout: { tiles: [{ ...tile, title: 'Service v2' }] } }) });
+    r = await api('/api/layouts/Booth%20A', { method: 'PUT', body: JSON.stringify({ layout: { gridCols: 13, tiles: [{ ...tile, title: 'Service v2' }] } }) });
     assert.equal(r.status, 200);
     assert.equal(r.body.replaced, true, 'the second save reports a replacement');
     assert.ok(fs.existsSync(path.join(layoutsDir, 'Booth A.previous.json')), 'the replaced copy is kept');
@@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ async function waitFor(url, ms = 15000) {
     assert.equal(r.status, 200);
     r = await api('/api/layouts/Booth%20A');
     assert.equal(r.body.layout.tiles[0].title, 'Service v2', 'restoring again goes forward again');
+    assert.equal('gridCols' in r.body.layout, false, 'a density the shell does not offer is dropped, not stored');
     r = await api('/api/layouts/Never%20Saved/restore', { method: 'POST', body: '{}' });
     assert.equal(r.status, 404, 'nothing to restore is said, not faked');