Session Catalog Designer

Overview

The Session Catalog Designer is the tool to design a Session Catalog in an event that has Speaker and Session Management and the Conference Sessions sub-module enabled. The Catalog Designer opens in a new browser window. The interface looks different from the rest of Certain Platform. You can have multiple Session Catalogs in an event, usable for both digital and in-person formats. When an attendee clicks a session they have registered for, they see the information about that session. If the session is configured for a webinar, the pop-up includes a link to join the webinar.

Adding and Editing a Session Catalog

This section explains how to add and edit a Session Catalog.

Adding a New Catalog

1. Navigate to Manage > Speakers and Sessions > Catalog List.

2. On the landing page, click Go to Catalog List.

3. Click Add Catalog.

4. Give the catalog a Name.

5. Select the Catalog Type: Session Catalog.

6. Copy Style and Header from an existing catalog if available, or copy from another catalog to maintain consistency across catalogs.

7. Save.

8. Your new catalog appears in the Catalog List.

9. Edit the catalog, as described next.

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.
At any stage you can click Preview to preview the catalog in a new browser window.
If you have just added a new catalog, 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.

Design Elements – Page Elements

Click any element on the Page Elements illustration 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.

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 of particular registration statuses, select those under Allowed Registration Statuses. One of the options is All statuses.

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 sections explain how to select sessions for the Session Catalog and for the Promoted or Highlighted Sessions.

Session Catalog Designer