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

  1. In the CMS > Media > create a new media item
  2. Fill in all the required fields
  3. Associate to the session


Adding Media Items like Polls or Surveys or other links via CSV Imports

  1. Import the Media CSV
    1. Create a CSV (we recommend using a Google Sheet) file with the following column headers:
      1. 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"
      2. Title: This is where you add a descriptive title for the link. For example: "Survey for Session: The future of event technology"
      3. 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"
      4. Type: enter "html" in the row if you are adding a link.
      5. URL: one URL starting with https://
      6. 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.
      7. 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
      8. 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.
    2. 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
    3. In the CMS > Media > Add a new Import Source 
      1. Add the label Google Sheet Polls (or something else descriptive where this data is coming from)
      2. Click Next 
      3. Upload your CSV or paste the link to the Google Sheet CSV URL
      4. Click Next
      5. Map your columns to the individual EventPilot fields
      6. Click Import
    4. 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)

  2. Import the Agenda associated CSV
    1. Create a CSV (Google Sheet) file with the following column headers:
      Session ID,Media ID
    2. 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"
    3. In the CMS > Agenda > Add a new Import Source 
      1. Add the label Google Sheet Media (or something else descriptive where this data is coming from)
      2. 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) 
      3. Click Advanced and select Associated 
      4. Click Next and upload your CSV or add the Google Sheet CSV URL. 
      5. Click Next
      6. Field map the Session ID column to Session IDs and the Media ID column to Media. 
      7. Click Import
    4. Import the data to link the polls (media items) to the sessions
    5. Click the Publish button and test


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.