On this page you configure the Speaker Portal page on which a speaker can register themselves and submit their session, or someone can do so for them.
To edit a field, click (shown when you move your mouse over an editable field).
To make a field required (mandatory), click to edit it and then click.
Submitter
Details of the person submitting the proposal are shown at the top of the submission page.
The details include First Name, Last Name, Email, and Position.
The speaker can click a button to remove this section, confirming that the speaker is submitting their own session.
Speaker Details
Speaker Details configures the section of the page that collects the speaker information.
Speaker Details is based on the layout of Manage > Speakers and Sessions > Speakers, but you may edit the portal page here.
Speaker Details includes adding fields (both standard and Speakers and Sessions Setup Custom Fields custom speaker fields) and page breaks.
> Note: You can add a new custom speaker field here. > > The new custom speaker field becomes available for use on the Speakers and Sessions Speaker Portal Pages My Information page and when adding or editing Speakers.
At the end of the section you can choose to Use this Layout for the My Information page.
See Speakers and Sessions Speaker Portal Pages My Information.
Session Details
Session Details configures the section of the page that collects the details of the session.
Session Details is based on the Session Layout set up for the event on Manage > Speakers and Sessions > Setup > Session Layout, but you may edit the portal page here in much the same way as you can the session layout.
Session Details includes adding fields (both standard and Speakers and Sessions Setup Custom Fields custom session fields), full-width Rich Text fields, and page breaks.
> Note: You can add a new custom session field here. > > The custom session field is then available for use on the Speakers and Sessions Speaker Portal Pages My Sessions page of the Speaker Portal and on the Speakers and Sessions Setup Session Layout.
> Note: This layout is also used for the Add Abstract page, which a logged in speaker can use to submit an additional abstract.
Additional Speakers
The opportunity to add Additional Speakers appears under the Session Submission area.
Information collected includes First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Organization, and Position.
Number of Additional Speakers Allowed (0–5)
This setting is the number of additional speakers that a speaker can add.
- Default: 5
- Any number from 0 through 5 is valid.
- A value of 0 prevents the "Additional Speakers" section from even being shown on the portal page.
> Note: This restriction applies only to the portal, not to what the planner may do on the admin side.
Conditional Logic
> Note: You can add a Conditional Section to dynamically display additional standard fields, custom fields, headers and text conditionally based on previous selections in the Speakers Portal. > > See separate details of Speaker Portal Logic.