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How to set up Advanced Seminars Template
Overview
The new Advanced Seminar listing highlights a number of great improvements over the now simple version which we have had in Affino for some time.
You can at any point start building an itinerary and email it to yourself, whether you are logged in or not. If you’re not logged out Affino will simply email it to you, if you are logged in then Affino will remember your choices.
There are nice dynamic features to highlight streams, actions such as adding to itinerary and the ability to drill down to the detailed seminar.
It is also possible to share any individual seminar or filtered view of the seminars, greatly supporting the sales and marketing process, and making it easy for your users to bookmark and share.
This template also provides a Grid View (only available on larger screens) which lets you navigate through all the seminars in a given day, and both highlights the seminars you have signed up for and notifies you if there’s a session clash when you try to add new seminars to your itinerary which overlap with existing sessions.
You can see this in live action here: demo.affino.com/advanced-seminars
Set up the Seminar Profile
Firstly, start by creating a Seminar Profile. If you already have a Seminar Profile for the Simple Seminars Listing template, we recommend creating a new profile for the Advanced Seminars template.
Control > Settings > Seminar Profiles
Here are some of the key fields, with help text, that you will need in order to configure the Seminar Profile:
- Name - Enter the Name that you wish to call this Seminar Profile. Please note that all entry fields designated with a tick mark are required fields.
- Description - Enter a description of the profile
- - Select the parent topic for the streams / categories within your seminar listing. This will populate the child topics on which you can sort the order. If you set a color on the child topics, they will be used to colorise each stream on the Seminar listing.
- Topic Streams - Select the Topics that are the main themathic strands within your seminar listing. Ensure that each of these topics has a color set in the Topic manager for the legend and the listing to appear colorized by strand.
- Location -Select the parent topic for listing the location of the seminar.
- [ ] Show Interested Participants - Select to display the participants who have added this seminar to their itinerary.
- [ ] - Select to display the itinerary facility on Seminars, allowing users to add Seminars to their own itinerary. It is also possible to set up Conversion Events to track items being added to the itinerary.
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- [ ] Show Job Title - Select to display Job Title for each Speaker and Interested Participants.
- [ ] Show Company - Select to display Company for each Speaker and Interested Participant. If the Public Account field is available, it will supersede the Account Name.
- [ ] Expanded Listing - Select to display each seminar expanded by default on desktop view (used on the Advanced Seminar). On tablet and mobile breakpoints, it is always collapsed by default.
- Title Char Limit - Enter the maximum number of characters for the Title.
- Teaser Char Limit - Enter the maximum number of characters for the Teaser.
- Topics Char Limit - Enter the maximum number of characters for the Topics.
- [ ] Show Email Button - Select to display the Email button on the itinerary.
- Email Subject - Enter the subject for the itinerary sent to users.
- Email Body - Enter the email body for the itinerary sent to users, you can use the following placeholders: [_First_Name_], [_Last_Name_], [_Itinerary_].
- Footer - Enter the footer information for the itinerary email sent to users.
- Navigation Text Color - Enter the text color reference for the Navigation.
- Navigation Background Color - Enter the background color reference for the Navigation.
Create a full width Skin
In order to take advantage of the Advanced Seminars template, we also recommend using a full-width Skin to make use of the screen when it comes to the Grid view and List view.
Just like the rest of your Skins, make sure you are using the Smart Prime Content Design Element and its properties reflect the full width.
Create a Seminar Channel
Once you have set the Seminar Profile, you will need a Seminar type Channel.
Control > Structure > Channels
When creating the Channel, associate the Seminar Profile with the Channel on the Seminar Profile field. Also, please make sure you have selected Advanced Seminar on the Presentation Styles.
Create your Seminars Articles
Once you have completed the steps above, you can start creating your seminars.
Control > Publish > Articles
Provide the following information:
Presentation Style - Select Advanced Seminar if not already set
Section - If not already selected, select your new Advanced Seminar section.
Title
Teaser
Keyword - Select the Seminar Topic to which you want to categorise this article, e.g. Content Management
- Main Image - Optional. If you wish to present an image when the user visits the detail page of the seminar.
Detail
Location - This field should show your location topics which you have defined on your Seminar Profile.
- Ticket Information - Optional. If you wish to present additional ticket information on the detail page of the seminar.
Speakers
Moderators
Start Date/Time - This is the Seminar start date/time and not the publish start date/time
End Date/Time - This is the Seminar end date/time and not the Publish End date/time
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