--- title: Locations description: Learn what locations are in Trak, how their default color pre-fills event colors, available colors, and what happens when you delete one. --- [Skip to content](https://help.trak.io/knowledge-base/locations#main-content) [![resized by Cameron Trak Logo Variations - 2025-01-1](https://help.trak.io/hs-fs/hubfs/resized%20by%20Cameron%20Trak%20Logo%20Variations%20-%202025-01-1.png?width=120&height=75&name=resized%20by%20Cameron%20Trak%20Logo%20Variations%20-%202025-01-1.png)](https://help.trak.io/knowledge-base?hsLang=en) Open main navigation Close main navigation - How can we help you? - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. [Trak Software Help Center](https://help.trak.io/knowledge-base?hsLang=en) 2. [Using Trak](https://help.trak.io/knowledge-base/using-trak?hsLang=en) 3. [Settings and Admin](https://help.trak.io/knowledge-base/using-trak?hsLang=en#settings-and-admin) # Locations A location is a place your events happen — a stadium, an arena, a campus, "Home", "Away". Locations are where you keep that list, and each one can carry a **default color** that events at that location take automatically. Locations are used by **events**: when you create or import an event, you choose its location, and the location's color pre-fills the event's color on the calendar. ### Who can manage locations? Locations are managed by **Site Admins**, under **Settings → Locations**. You also need the **Editor** role to add, change, delete, or reorder them — a Site Admin with the Viewer or Contributor role can see the list but not change it. Everyone else doesn't see the Locations settings. ### What's on a location Open **Settings** from the left sidebar, then choose **Locations**. Each location has: - **Name.** Required. What the location is called wherever events are shown. - **Color.** Optional. The default color events at this location take. The field reads: *"Events assigned to this location take this color unless they have their own."* See the colors below. - **Location Number.** Optional. The location's own number, such as a venue or store number. - **External ID.** Optional. If the location came from another system during an import, it keeps that system's identifier here. Drag a location's row up or down to reorder the list; the new order saves as soon as you drop it. That order is the order locations appear in the event form's location picker. ### How the default color works Setting a color on a location is a convenience, not a lock: - **When you create an event and pick a location,** Trak fills the color field with that location's default color. You can still change it — pick any color and your choice sticks. - **When you import events with only a location** (no color of their own), each event takes its location's default color. - **When there's no color to inherit** — the event has no color of its own and its location has no default (or it has no location) — the event shows in the **Workspace** color. So a location's color decides the *starting* color for its events; an event always keeps a color you set explicitly on it. ### The colors you can choose The same set of colors is used for events, locations, and statuses: | Color | What it is | | --- | --- | | **Workspace** | Your workspace's own primary (brand) color. This is the default an event falls back to when nothing else sets a color. | | **White** | A plain, uncolored look. | | **Red** | — | | **Yellow** | — | | **Green** | — | | **Turquoise** | — | You'll see these names everywhere a color is chosen. The **Workspace** color follows your workspace's branding, so it isn't a fixed shade the way the others are. ### What happens if I delete a location? Deleting a location doesn't delete its events. When you delete one, Trak asks whether to **move its events to another location**: - **Choose a location to move them to,** and those events take on the new location (and can pick up its default color going forward). - **Leave it blank,** and the events simply lose their location. 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