Session Catalog Designer

How to set up a Session Catalog in an event that has Speaker and Session Management and its Conference Sessions sub-module enabled.

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Introduction

Setting up a Session Catalog is very similar to  setting up a Speaker Catalog. If you're familiar with one, you'll feel at home with the other. 

Each involves using the relevant  Catalog Designer, which opens in a new browser window.
This looks and feels different to the rest of Certain Platform.
It may take some getting used to, but we think you'll like it.

You can have multiple Session Catalogs in an event.and can use them whether your event is digital or in-person. When an attendee clicks a session for which they'e registered, they see the information about that session; and if the session is configured for a webinar then the pop-up includes a link for them to join the webinar. 

Adding and Editing a Session Catalog

Adding a New Catalog

1. Go to Manage > Speakers and Sessions >  C atalog List" style="display: inline; font-family: Lato, Verdana, Arial, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(22, 7, 255); text-decoration: underline;"Catalog List

2. Click Go to Catalog List on that landing page

3. Click Add Catalog 

4. Give the catalog a Name

5. Select the Catalog Type: 'Session Catalog'

6. Copy Style and Header from – Available if there is an existing catalog.
   If you wish to, select another catalog to copy style and header from. This helps maintain consistency across catalogs.

7. Save

8. Your new catalog appears in the Catalog List.

9. Edit the catalog, as described next.

Editing a Catalog

Best Practice: When editing a newly added catalog, click Save & Next to step through the setup pages. But when editing a saved catalog, you can select the pages and tabs to edit just those elements. 

Note: At any stage you can click Preview to preview the catalog in a new browser window.

1. If adding a new catalog you've just added, proceed to Step 3

2. If editing a configured catalog, go to Manage > Speakers and Sessions > Catalog List.

3. Click   in the Actions column to edit the catalog.

4. The Certain Session Catalog Designer opens in a new browser window.

5. The first page is Define Layout.

6. It has two tabs: Page Elements and Theme.

7. You land on Page Elements, as described next.

Define Layout > Page Elements tab

1. Observe the central illustration of the page elements.

2. On the left, select  Filter Placement:

   1. Left, or

   2. Slider

3. On the right, select Session Display:

   1. Magazine Style,

   2. Promoted Style, or

   3. General Sessions

4. Click Save & Next to proceed to the Theme tab.

>Define Layout > Theme tab

1. Select a Theme by clicking Use,
   or click Customize to create a new "Custom Theme" based on that one.

2. Click Save & Next to proceed to the Design Elements page.

Design Elements

The Design Elements page has four panels:

• Page Elements

• Login Screen

• My Sessions

• Additional Setting

Design Elements – Page Elements panel

Click any of the elements on the Page Elements illustration on the left to edit it in the panel that opens on the right,

(The default element is the header.).

You can Save that element and select another one on the left, or step through them all by clicking Save & Next.

Hover over an element in the illustration to see its name. The full list is:

• Header

• HTML (below header)

• Tabs

• Session Layout(s), depending on which Session Display style was selected ):

  • Highlighted Session Layout (for Magazine Style)

  • Promoted Session Layout (for Magazine and Promoted Styles)

  • General Session Layout (for Magazine Style, Promoted Style, and General Sessions)

• HTML (above footer)

• Footer

• Speaker Layout

Not illustrated, but listed below the illustration, are these three elements you can also edit:

 Login Screen – The popup screen on which the attendee logs in using the credentials they used to register.

To make the catalog public, requiring no login, change the toggle switch from Enabled to Disabled.

To restrict the access only to registration of particular registration statuses, select those under Allowed Registration Statuses. One of the options is 'All' statuses – that is, no restriction.

 My Sessions – The page element in which the logged-in attendee sees and can add to the sessions they've selected.
( Note: Your administrator sets the 'Add to Calendar' display options for this section. This is at the account level on Account Settings> Management > Add to Calendar.)

  Additional Settings– Insert scripts or CSS references separately for the DOM header and DOM footer.

When you've configured the design elements, click Save & Next to proceed to the Data page.

Data

The Data page has up to three tabs, depending on which Session Display style was selected:

• Highlighted (for Magazine Style)
• Promoted (for Magazine and Promoted Styles)
• General (for all three styles)

In each one choose how those sessions will be displayed.

In the Highlighted and Promoted tabs you also choose which sessions to highlight and promote.

In the General tab, you define Filters and Grouping(s).

 Video: Selecting Sessions for the Session Catalog

Video: Selecting Sessions for the Promoted or Highlighted Sessions

See Also

• Speakers and Sessions Catalog List" style="display: inline; font-family: Lato, Verdana, Arial, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(22, 7, 255); text-decoration: underline;"Catalog List

• Speakers and Sessions Catalog List Add/Edit a Speaker Catalog" style="display: inline; font-family: Lato, Verdana, Arial, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(22, 7, 255); text-decoration: underline;"Speaker Catalog

• List of Speaker and Session Management documents, videos, and help topics