The export is a ZIP file with everything your calendar holds: its settings, every door's text and images, all figures, the raffle entrant lists, the answers to question doors and, if it collects points, everyone's points. Download it after the season: on the season's end date, the advent calendar deletes everything, and Flip keeps no copy.
Downloading the export
- On a draft, upcoming or live calendar: the ⋮ menu at the top → Download export.
- On an ended or archived calendar: the Download export button at the top.
- In the list of calendars: a calendar's ⋮ menu → Download export.
On a new draft, Download export is greyed out until you've chosen the ready-made calendar or an empty start in the setup guide's first step, Languages and content: there's nothing to export yet. See Getting started.
The admin says Preparing the export. The download starts shortly. It can take a moment for a calendar with many images. Every export is recorded.
What's in the export
The ZIP contains one folder named after your calendar and its start date:
| File or folder | What's inside |
|---|---|
README.md |
What each file is, in your admin language, and any image that couldn't be included. |
calendar.json |
The calendar's settings, including when it shows in the app, texts in every language, design and points. |
doors/01-welcome-to-december/ … |
One folder per door: its settings and correct answers (door.json), its text in each language (door.en.md, door.de.md …) and the image or video at the top of the door, each video with a still image. A video several languages share is in the folder once, named after them (header-de-en.mp4). |
media/ |
The cover images and logos. |
analytics/overview.html |
The Analytics tab as a report with charts. Open it in any browser, also offline. |
analytics/summary.json |
Every figure in one file, with door titles, for scripts and AI assistants. |
analytics/*.csv |
The figures as tables: doors, days, and quiz and poll results. |
raffles/ |
One list per raffle with the entrants' Flip user IDs and names. |
questions/ |
One list per question door with each person's Flip user ID, name, answers and when they last answered. |
points/points.csv |
If the calendar collects points: everyone with points, highest first, with rank, Flip user ID, name and points. With the leaderboard on, its first 10 rows are the leaderboard. |
All figures are totals; only the raffle, question and points lists name people. Participants who declined points aren't in the points lists.
From the first door on, you can also download the points lists on their own from the Overview, see Running a live calendar.
The deletion date
The admin shows the deletion date wherever it matters:
- The list of calendars: Download each calendar's export before 1 March 2027. On that day the advent calendar and all its data are deleted.
- The Overview of an ended or archived calendar.
Figures are updated every 30 minutes, so an export made during the season can miss the last half hour. Download the final export after the calendar has ended.
Using last year's content
Each door's text is in a readable Markdown file per language, and its images are in the same
folder. Names and colours stay as you typed them, such as {{firstName}} and {red}text{/red}.
Next season, you can copy texts and upload images from there into a new calendar.