Content Blocks (At Account Level)

Introduction

On this Content Blocks page, you can set up account-level blocks of HTML content. This article describes account-level content blocks.

Note that the Event Setup > Content Display > Content Blocks area supports event-level content blocks. The account-level setup means defining shared content once. Shared content means content that multiple events use.

Shared content examples include a display-shell footer. Shared content also means common HTML content across multiple events. If shared content exists, setting content blocks up at the account level avoids separate setup in each event.

You can use content blocks in the following places:

• Email Templates
• (including Speaker Email Templates, Reviewer Email Templates, and Digital Event Templates)
• Forms
• Websites
• Event Display Shell
• Printable Confirmations

A content block can be displayed by selecting it in the same way as dynamic data fields. A content block is selected from the same drop-down lists as dynamic data fields.

You can also display a content block conditionally by setting up Display Rules in an event. The event path is Event Setup > Display Rules: Event Setup > Display Rules.

When composing an Email Template, you can select display rules. Display rules use the same selection approach as content blocks and dynamic data fields. Display rules are selected by appending selected display rules to the email body.

When an email is generated, the content block(s) selected in the rule are displayed if rule conditions are met.

Quick Tips

To add a new content block, click the Add New button.

To edit a block, click in its row in the List of Content Blocks. In both cases, the list is replaced by the Content Block Details section. The Content Block Details section is described below.

To delete a block, click to edit it. Then click the Delete button at the bottom of the page.

Page Content

List of Content Blocks

A list of all current account-level content blocks appears in the List of Content Blocks section. This list may be a multi-page list.

• Edit edits the block in the Content Block Details section.
• Copy copies the block.
• The Copy action edits and renames the copied content in the Content Block Details section.

Content Block Details

• Name – (Required) Must be unique within the event.
• Description – An optional explanatory description of the block.
• Text Above Header – Text to be displayed above the Header, such as an introduction.
• Header – Text to be displayed above the body of the content block, like a title.
• Append – The body of the content block can include dynamic information about the profile, event, or location.
• To insert a dynamic data field, select a value from the Append list.
• Click the Body button to append the selected value to the body of the block.
• Fields available include: Fields available include ...
• Body – Type the body of the content block in the unlabeled text box in the center of the page.
• Mix text and appended fields as necessary.
• The usual editing features are available unless the Enable Editor? check box is cleared.
• Enable Editor? – If this check box is selected (as it is by default), the body of the block can be edited using standard controls for formatting, etc.
• (See additional instructions about using the Editor.)
• You can clear the check box in order to edit the Body in a simple text box.
• You can hand-craft the HTML code in the simple text box.
• You can paste HTML code from an external editor into the simple text box.
• Append dynamic data fields remains available.

Click Save to save the block and return to the List of Content Blocks. Click Save & New to save the block and create a new one.