Can I offer a countdown timer for a session or presentation for my speakers to use?

Modified on Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 10:50 AM

The countdown and timer page is available for any sessions in your program. 


You can generate a link to this page with the project domain (via the CAB), your project ID, the session ID, and the speaker ID. (As a reminder, presentations are also considered sessions in the EventPilot CAB, so the same steps apply.)


Where to find your domain? 

  • Log into the CAB and access your project
  • Look in your browser's address bar. It could start for example with eppro02.ativ.me. This is the domain.


Where to find your project ID? 

  • In the CAB, click on your icon in the top right. 
  • In the sidebar, the project ID is given, for example ABC23 


Where to find a session and speaker ID? 

  • In the CAB > Agenda > Sessions > search for the session you'd like to create the countdown URL for. 
  • Click on the session to open the detail view.
  • The session ID is displayed underneath the Session Detail title. In the example above, the ID would be 226
  • The same view displays the speaker IDs. In the example above, the speaker ID is RR


How to construct the URL? 


https://<domain>/vs.php?cd=true&c=<projectID>&id=<sessionID>&p=<speakerID>


Let's build the URL:


https://eppro02.ativ.me/vs.php?cd=true&c=ABC23&id=226&p=RR


Note that this is just an example and doesn't correspond to a real project. 

Pay attention to upper and lower case in your IDs.