Session Catalog Designer
The following describes how to set up a Session Catalog in an event that has the Speaker and Session Management sub-module enabled. The Catalog Designer opens in a new browser window.
- The Catalog Designer looks and feels different from the rest of the Certain Platform.
- The Catalog Designer may require some adjustment.
- You can have multiple Session Catalogs in an event.
- You can use Session Catalogs for either digital or in-person events.
- When an attendee clicks a session they registered, they see information about that session.
- If the session is configured for a webinar, the pop-up includes a link to join the webinar.
Introduction
- Setting up a Session Catalog is very similar to setting up a Speaker Catalog.
- If you're familiar with a Speaker Catalog, you'll feel at home with a Session Catalog.
- Each catalog uses the relevant Catalog Designer, which opens in a new browser window.
Adding and Editing a Session Catalog
Adding a New Catalog
- Go to Manage > Speakers and Sessions > Catalog List.
- Click Go to Catalog List on that landing page.
- Click Add Catalog.
- Give the catalog a Name.
- Select the Catalog Type: 'Session Catalog'.
- Copy Style and Header from an existing catalog if available.
- If you wish to, select another catalog to copy style and header from to maintain consistency across catalogs.
- Save.
- Your new catalog appears in the Catalog List.
Editing a Catalog
- Best Practice: When editing a newly added catalog, click Save & Next to step through the setup pages.
- When editing a saved catalog, you can select the pages and tabs to edit just those elements.
- Note: At any stage you can click Preview to preview the catalog in a new browser window.
- If adding a new catalog you've just added, proceed to Step 3.
- If editing a configured catalog, go to Manage > Speakers and Sessions > Catalog List.
- Click in the Actions column to edit the catalog.
- The Certain Session Catalog Designer opens in a new browser window.
- The first page is Define Layout.
- It has two tabs: Page Elements and Theme.
- You land on Page Elements, as described next.
Define Layout > Page Elements
- Observe the central illustration of the page elements.
- On the left, select Filter Placement: Left or Slider.
- On the right, select Session Display: Magazine Style, Promoted Style, or General Sessions.
- Click Save & Next to proceed to the Theme tab.
Define Layout > Theme
- Select a Theme by clicking Use, or Customize to create a new "Custom Theme" based on that one.
- Click Save & Next to proceed to the Design Elements page.
Design Elements
- The Design Elements page has four panels: Page Elements, Screen, My Sessions, Additional Setting.
- The Page Elements panel: Click any of the elements on the Page Elements illustration on the left to edit it in the panel that opens on the right.
- The default element is the header.
- You can save that element and select another one on the left, or step through them all by clicking Save & Next.
- Hover over an element in the illustration to see its name.
- The full list is: Header; HTML (below header); Tabs; Session Layout(s) (depending on which Session Display style was selected); Highlighted Session Layout (for Magazine Style); Promoted Session Layout (for Magazine and Promoted Styles); General Session Layout (for Magazine Style, Promoted Style, and General Sessions); HTML (above footer); Footer; Speaker Layout.
- Not illustrated, but listed below the illustration, are these three elements you can also edit: Screen; The popup screen on which the attendee logs in using the credentials they used to register.
- To make the catalog public, requiring no login, change the toggle switch from Enabled to Disabled.
- To restrict access only to registration statuses, select those under Allowed Registration Statuses; One of the options is 'All' statuses – that is, no restriction.
- My Sessions: The page element in which the logged-in attendee sees and can add to the sessions they've selected.
- Note: Your administrator sets the 'Add to Calendar' display options for this section. This is at the account level on Account Settings > Management > Add to Calendar.
- Additional Settings: Insert scripts or CSS references separately for the DOM header and DOM footer.
- When you've configured the design elements, click Save & Next to proceed to the Data page.
Data
- The Data page has up to three tabs, depending on which Session Display style was selected: Highlighted (for Magazine Style); Promoted (for Magazine and Promoted Styles); General (for all three styles).
- In each one, choose how those sessions will be displayed.
- In the Highlighted and Promoted tabs you also choose which sessions to highlight and promote.
- In the General tab, you define Filters and Grouping(s).
- Video: Selecting Sessions for the Session Catalog.
- Video: Selecting Sessions for the Promoted or Highlighted Sessions.
See Also
- Speakers and Sessions Catalog List
- Add/Edit a Speaker Catalog
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