A Router Section generates a complete routing panel (sources, destinations, filters, and take controls) from a set of routing resources you pick. This is different from a Custom Router, which gives you an empty context you populate yourself, button by button, from Custom Routing Presets. Use a Router Section when you want a ready-made panel over a defined set of resources; use a Custom Router when you need a bespoke layout mixed with other controls. See Add controls and sections to a position for that comparison.
Continue with the non-production ATEM connection from Add an ATEM connection. The goal is a two-pane panel listing camera inputs as sources and program/auxiliary outputs as destinations, so an operator can pick a source, pick a destination, and take the route.
Under Available Sources / Destinations, add the tags, collections, bundles, or individual ports that should be selectable in this panel. For the ATEM example, add the camera input bundles as sources and the M/E program and auxiliary output bundles as destinations. This is a hard limit: anything not included here can't be selected in the panel at all, regardless of the filters an operator applies later.
Default Filters works the same way but sets what's shown when no filter is currently active, rather than limiting what can ever appear.
User Filters → Display Mode controls how operators narrow down a long list of sources or destinations while using the panel. For a Duo layout, start with Collection buttons visible, open popovers with tags: visible buttons for each collection (for example Location or Role), which open a popover of the tags within it when pressed.
Under User Filters, select Display Mode and choose Collection buttons visible, open popovers with tags.
Build the source and destination collection lists that should appear as filter buttons: for example, group ATEM sources by a Location tag collection so operators can filter to cameras in one part of the studio.
Other display modes suit different panel sizes and operator familiarity:
Display mode
What operators see
Off
No filter buttons; the full available list is always shown.
One button opens a popover with collection buttons
A single FILTER button opens collections, which open tags.
One button opens a popover with all tag buttons
A single FILTER button opens every tag at once.
All tag filter buttons visible directly
Every tag shown as its own button, no popovers.
Navigate: Collections → Tags → Content (with back button)
Collections act as folders; tags act as folders inside them.
Navigate: Tags → Content (with back button)
Tags act as folders directly over the source or destination list.
Group sources and destinations with Smart Navigation#
When a source or destination list is too long to scroll comfortably, Smart Navigation groups it into folders based on segments of each item's label, the same step-into-with-a-back-button pattern as the Navigate display modes under User Filters above, so operators drill down instead of scanning a flat list.
Open Smart Navigation in the inspector and turn on Enable Smart Navigation.
Under Apply To, choose whether grouping applies to Sources, Destinations, or both, independently of each other.
Set Label Source to whichever label your naming convention actually lives on: User Label, Setup Label, Installation Label, Port Name, or Ext Custom Label.
Adjust Min Items for Folder (1–10, default 2): a segment with fewer matching items than this shows those items directly at that level instead of behind a folder.
Smart Navigation splits the chosen label on whitespace into segments and builds one folder level per segment: a source labeled OSLO EVS 1 becomes the path OSLO → EVS → 1. An item without a segment left at the current level shows up there directly, even while others sharing that same path still get grouped further by their next segment. A folder containing only a single item is always shown as that item directly rather than as a one-item folder, regardless of Min Items for Folder, and if that flattening leaves exactly one folder with nothing else at that level, Buttons steps into it automatically instead of making the operator select it first.
Each folder button shows the segment name and how many items it contains. A back button appears once you've actually navigated into a folder, to return to the level above.
By default, selecting a source and a destination stages the mapping without changing anything: the panel shows a Take action, the same staged-then-confirmed pattern used in Execute View. Enable Auto Take in the inspector's Options if you want selecting a pair to route immediately instead, with no separate confirmation step.
Show Release Button adds a control for releasing an already-routed destination without selecting a new source first. Releasing routes the destination to the connection's black/no-source input rather than leaving it unrouted or restoring a prior source. Confirm this is the outcome you want before using it on a production destination. Clear Selection After Take resets the panel's current selection once a route is taken, so the next selection starts fresh.
A Router Section reads and writes the same lock state as Execute View, see Understand route status for what a lock means. Two panel-specific options control how locking behaves here:
Lock/Unlock Buttons: show them In Action Section, move them In Options Menu, or set to Hidden if this panel shouldn't expose lock controls at all.
Ignore Lock: lets this panel take routes even against a locked destination. Enable it only where bypassing a lock is a deliberate, understood choice.
Select a source and a destination in the panel, then select Take. Confirm the connected unit's active source changed and that the panel's own display (which source is shown routed to which destination) updated to match.
