DJ Wishes

DJ wishes collect song requests without anyone walking up to the booth. The list fills up live while the event runs.

Included in every plan

DJ wishes are free – just like Schedule, Thank You and Event Info.

Setting it up

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Step 1: switch it on at the top. The tool needs no further preparation — your guests provide the content.

1. Open Tooling → DJ Wishes and switch on Enable tool at the top.

2. In the Display tab, keep Widget on the home page and/or Entry in the guest menu enabled so your guests find the tool. With the widget on, the Widget style appears below it.

3. That’s it. No further preparation is needed – your guests supply the content.

A direct link for the night

The QR code tab gives you the Direct link for guests with its QR code. On a card on the tables or at the bar it leads straight to the request form – no sign-in required.

The widget on the home page

With Widget on the home page enabled, a card sits there titled Request a song, with the subtitle Tell the DJ what you want to hear. and a Request song button. One click leads straight to the form.

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Widget on the home page puts the invitation card on the event home page. It shows no requests at all, so it appears the moment you switch the tool on.

Unlike the schedule, this widget shows no content of its own – it is a pure invitation to join in, and therefore visible right after you enable it, even when not a single request exists yet.

Requesting needs a session

Reading the page is harmless, but submitting requires a session in the event – so the guest has to have gone through the join step. Anyone who only taps the direct link without ever entering the gallery is guided through joining first. That is exactly why the form sits behind a button in the digital invitation rather than openly on the page.

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The widget sits in the “Event info & tools” rail on the event home page.

Reading the request list

In the Content tab the editor is called Song requests and describes itself as music wishes submitted by your guests – review and remove if needed. There is nothing to create here.

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Requests arrive live – with everything needed to play them.

Next to the heading sit two chips: the total number of requests and a green Live chip. That chip is meant literally – new requests appear instantly, as long as this view stays open. Freshly arrived rows are briefly highlighted and carry a New badge.

The table has these columns:

• Title – the requested song. The only required field for your guests.
• Artist – optional, helps with ambiguous titles.
• Note – optional, such as for the cake cutting.
• From – who requested the song.
• Requested at – date and time of the entry.

The list is sorted by arrival, newest first. From 50 entries on, page controls appear at the bottom: Previous, Page X of Y and Next.

The bin icon on the right removes a request. Photogala asks first with Delete request? and names the title.

If there are no requests yet, it simply says No song requests from your guests yet.

Who shows up as the sender

The From column shows the nickname the guest had in this event at the moment of the request. If they never set one, it says Anonymous.

The From column shows the nickname the guest had when submitting — without one it says Anonymous. The entry never changes afterwards.

The name is frozen

The nickname is stored together with the request when it is sent. If the guest changes it later, older entries keep the old name – there is no back-fill.

Where guests set their nickname is covered on the Profile page. If you want to know at the end of the night who asked for which song, tell your guests before they start requesting – the sender cannot be filled in afterwards.

Very rapid repeat submissions are briefly throttled. That is spam protection, and it counts per guest rather than per network – so a full room on the same Wi-Fi does not block itself.

What your guests see

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The same thing from the guest side: 1 Song title is the only required field, 2 Submit request sends it in. Artist and note are optional.

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Your guests fill in three fields at most – the title is enough.

The form has Song title (required), Artist (optional) and Note (optional), with Submit request below. A short confirmation Request submitted! follows, with a Request another song button.

Under Your requests every guest sees their own entries – and only those. Withdraw request removes them again. Nobody can see or delete anyone else’s requests.

Quota and duplicate requests

So a single guest can’t run the night, the number of requests per guest is capped:

• Default: 5 requests per guest.
• As an event setting a value between 1 and 50 can be stored instead. There is currently no switch for it in the editor.
• Once the quota is full, the form locks with the note You have reached your limit of X requests. Next to Your requests a running counter shows X of Y.
• If a guest withdraws a request, the slot frees up again.

Submitting the same song twice is blocked: title and artist together may only appear once per guest. Two different guests may request the same song – that’s how you see what gets asked for repeatedly.

Example

With the default quota, Lena submits five titles. Next to Your requests it then reads 5 of 5, and the form locks with You have reached your limit of 5 requests. If she withdraws one title, it reads 4 of 5 again and a new request goes through. The form won’t take the same song from her twice – but Tom may still request it, and that is exactly how you spot in your list which songs were asked for more than once.

The playlist in the digital invitation

If you also use the digital invitation, the Playlist (from Song Requests) switch shows the request list as its own section inside the invitation.

• The section is called Our Playlist and lists the most recently submitted requests with title and artist as a numbered list – at most 12 entries.
• The Request a song button opens the request form right inside the invitation; your guests never leave the page.
• The section only appears when both tools are active – the invitation and DJ wishes.

Practical tip for the night

• Leave the view open. The live feed only works while the Song requests page is open. A laptop or tablet next to the booth showing the list is the whole setup.
• There is no export. The request list cannot be downloaded as a file – it is read in the browser. So plan for the device it runs on.
• The guest link is no substitute. The link from the QR code tab only shows the form and the guest’s own requests, not the full list. The only view where a request list becomes publicly visible is the playlist section in the digital invitation.

Troubleshooting

• The list stays empty although guests submitted something. Check that you are in the right event and reload the page. The live feed only adds to what is already loaded.
• New requests only show up after a reload. The view was closed in between, or the device lost its connection. After a reload the list is complete again.
• A guest can’t submit anything anymore. Their quota is full. They can delete one of their own entries via Withdraw request and then submit a new one.
• A guest can’t add their song a second time. Title and artist make it a duplicate for that guest – that is intentional.
• The From column says Anonymous everywhere. Your guests never set a nickname. The name is taken at submit time, so adding it later only affects new requests.
• The tool doesn’t show up for guests. Check Enable tool at the very top and, in the Display tab, the Widget on the home page and Entry in the guest menu switches.

Related pages

• For Guests: Song requests – what your guests see and how they withdraw a request.
• For Hosts: Digital Invitation · Timeline · Tools – Overview