Introduction
Session Catalog setup is very similar to setting up a Speaker Catalog.
If you are familiar with a Speaker Catalog, you will feel at home with the Session Catalog Designer.
Each Catalog involves using the relevant Catalog Designer, which opens in a new browser window.
The Catalog Designer looks and feels different from the rest of Certain Platform.
The Catalog Designer may take some getting used to.
A single event can include multiple Session Catalogs.
Session Catalogs can be used for both digital and in-person events.
When an attendee clicks a session for which the attendee is registered, the attendee sees information about that session.
If the session is configured for a webinar, the pop-up includes a link for the attendee to join the webinar.
Adding and Editing a Session Catalog
Adding a New Catalog
Go to Manage > Speakers and Sessions > Catalog List.
On the landing page, click Go to Catalog List.
Click Add Catalog.
Give the catalog a Name.
Select the Catalog Type: 'Session Catalog'.
Copy Style and Header from — available if there is an existing catalog.
If you wish to, select another catalog to copy style and header from. This helps 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 you are adding a new catalog you have just added, proceed to Step 3.
If you are 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.
The Define Layout page has two tabs: Page Elements and Theme.
Define Layout > Page Elements tab
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 tab
Select a Theme by clicking Use.
Or click 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.
On the Page Elements panel, click any element on the left to edit it in the panel 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.
- My Sessions – The page element in which the logged-in attendee sees and can add to the sessions they’ve selected.
- Note: The 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.
To make the catalog public, requiring no login, change the toggle switch from Enabled to Disabled.
To restrict access only to registration of particular 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.
Additional Settings – Insert scripts or CSS references separately for the DOM header and DOM footer.
When you have 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), and General (for all three styles).
In each tab, 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
- Catalog List
- Speakers and Sessions Catalog List Add/Edit a Speaker Catalog
- See also pages for related topics:
- Catalog - Designing the Registrant Login Session Experience
- Session Advisor FAQ's - Session Catalog
- Adding Catalogs, Syncing Sessions and Speakers in the Catalog List
- Themes, Best Practices, Misc - Adding JavaScript, Images size for Banner, etc.
- Inline Additional Registrations
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- Catalog - Designing the Registrant Login Session Experience
- Session Advisor FAQ's - Session Catalog
- Adding Catalogs, Syncing Sessions and Speakers in the Catalog List
- Themes, Best Practices, Misc - Adding JavaScript, Images size for Banner, etc.
- Introduction to Speaker and Session Management (PDF)
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