Site Setup (Event Website)

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Site Setup (Event Website)

An event can have one or more websites. Most events have a publicly accessible website for information and marketing purposes. Many events also have a password-protected website for attendees or invited participants only.

When editing an existing event website, or after you have saved a new one, the Left Navigation Panel includes links to the pages on which you configure each webpage included in the site.

> Note: By default, all Certain forms and websites are "private" (invisible to search engines). > For information about changing this for all or some events, see the pdf guide, Web Crawlability in Certain Events.

> Security Note: If the event has an Access Token (generated on Event Details), then anyone going to any websites (forms or ) in the event would have to enter the token before proceeding. > For websites, that access is for 60 minutes. > Then the attendee would have to re-enter the Access Code.

Video: Creating a Website (3 min.)

Website Setup

Usually this means entering their username and password (from the Contact Information on their Profile record).

You configure page details on Web Page 1.

Note: If this is selected you can enable a Profile whose record includes an External Profile ID (e.g., abcd6688) to log in to the website automatically. Give them a personalized link like this one: Website url https://events.example.com/profile/web/12345&pro_external_fln_key=abcd6688

See the Auto-Login PDF for a detailed explanation of that personalized link.

Generated automatically when the site is created.

Example: https://events.example.com/profile/web/12345

You can optionally override that event-level ID by entering one here that’s specific to the website.

Display Settings

For each page that you want to include on the website, edit the following fields.

Select No for pages to be excluded.

Example: "Home".

In either of the following cases, enter a URL:

1. For the Register page, it is essential.

Enter the URL of the online registration form for this event.

This can be found under Plan >Form > Setup > URL.

2. For any other page, only enter a URL if the navigation link for that page should take the attendee to a page other than one of the standard 13 Certain event webpages, such as a page on your own website.

In such a case, enter the link to that page here.

Web Page 1 is for attendees to log in, and is only displayed if Login Required? is selected on this Site Setup page.

Pages Web 2 through Web 13 can be used for any purpose.

These are the default page names and proposed uses:

If advanced display settings are used, this page has a different image compared to all other pages.

Best practice is to create these sessions in Manage > Speaker and Session Management > Sessions.

Activities and Agenda can be used interchangeably.

Agenda can be used for the "business" part of an event and activities for the "recreational" part.

Create activities in Plan > Event Setup > Agenda.

Create forms in Plan > Forms.

The following page has one specific purpose, and cannot be used to display content:

Used only when Login Required? is selected in Web Site Setup, above.

Previewing a Website

Click the Preview button at the bottom of the page to preview the event website in a new browser window.

Note that this button does not appear until you have created the website (by clicking Save).