You can add different links to a session or speakers. These links could include polls, surveys, video links, etc.
Any links in session detail views are basically media items.
Adding Media Items like Polls or Surveys Manually
- In the CMS > Media > create a new media item
- Fill in all the required fields
- Associate to the session
Adding Media Items like Polls or Surveys or other links via CSV Imports
- Import the Media CSV
- Create a CSV (we recommend using a Google Sheet) file with the following column headers:
- Media ID: You can make up the media ID - ensure this ID is unique and not already an ID used in the media table. IDs can be alphanumeric. This means, you could create an ID like "survey-123" or "poll-ws1"
- Title: This is where you add a descriptive title for the link. For example: "Survey for Session: The future of event technology"
- Optional Subtitle: This field is optional and displays text below the media item title. For example, you could add "Opens a web page" or "Internet access required"
- Type: enter "html" in the row if you are adding a link.
- URL: one URL starting with https://
- Optional Icon: This field is optional and allows you to add a URL to an icon you would like to display to the left of the media item title. Learn more about media icons.
- Optional Start: This field is optional and allows you to set an embargo start date. Users can see the media link but when they try to click, will see a dialog when the link will become available to click through. The content must be formatted correctly using a date/time format: YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss. For example: 2022-05-31 10:00:00
- Optional End: Same setup as the Start field. When the user clicks on the media item after your set date/time, a dialog appears that this media item is no longer available. Use the same formatting as the Start field.
- For each poll or survey, complete a row and fill in the content in each field. For example (icon left out):
poll-1,"Poll for Session: The future of hybrid events","Opens Poll Website",html,https://pollurlhere - In the CMS > Media > Add a new Import Source
- Add the label Google Sheet Polls (or something else descriptive where this data is coming from)
- Click Next
- Upload your CSV or paste the link to the Google Sheet CSV URL
- Click Next
- Map your columns to the individual EventPilot fields
- Click Import
- Close the dialog by clicking outside of it and review your imported media items in the table (click on the item to open the detailed information you imported)
- Create a CSV (we recommend using a Google Sheet) file with the following column headers:
- Import the Agenda associated CSV
- Create a CSV (Google Sheet) file with the following column headers:
Session ID,Media ID - For each session that would display a poll or survey, complete one row. Note: a session ID can only be listed once. You can however associate multiple Media IDs to a single session. For example:
123,"poll-1"
456,"poll-1,poll-2,survey-1" - In the CMS > Agenda > Add a new Import Source
- Add the label Google Sheet Media (or something else descriptive where this data is coming from)
- Select CSV URL or CSV upload (depending if you are linking to the Google Sheet CSV URL or if you exported a CSV from Excel)
- Click Advanced and select Associated
- Click Next and upload your CSV or add the Google Sheet CSV URL.
- Click Next
- Field map the Session ID column to Session IDs and the Media ID column to Media.
- Click Import
- Import the data to link the polls (media items) to the sessions
- Click the Publish button and test
- Create a CSV (Google Sheet) file with the following column headers:
If you need the links to open in an external browser outside of the app, change the media type from "html" to "ext/html" which will trigger to open the link in the standalone browser app.