Settings for adding components

In the general settings of the Events Application, several settings can be made for the Program module. The following settings can be made:

• Create activity types
• Automate speaker names

Create activity types

Before creating activities, you need to create activity types first. An activity type is a general description of the kind of activity, e.g. a presentation or a workshop.

To create an activity type, click on ‘Back to the overview’ on the top of the Events tree and then click on ‘Settings’. Go to the tab ‘Program’ and click on ‘Activity types’ in the menu on the left. Then click on ‘Add’ in the toolbar. Enter the name of the activity type. Click on ‘save’ to confirm. The activity type now appears in the overview.

Automate speaker names

When adding a speaker to the event, you are asked to choose a person from the Organization Application and then fill in a name and optionally a subtitle. Filling in the name and the subtitle can be automated by means of placeholders. These placeholders are based on Organization fields.

You can set up the placeholders in the general settings of the Events Application. Click on ‘Back to overview’ on the top of the Events tree and then click on ‘Settings’. Go to the tab ‘Program’ and click on ‘Speakers’ in the menu on the left. You will see two fields: ‘Default name’ and ‘Default subtitle’. In these fields, you can add the placeholders.

The placeholder should first refer to the Organization Application and then to the intended field. An example of this is ‘{{organization:name}}’. Here, ‘organization’ is the part that refers to the Organization Application. The placeholder only works when you use this. The part ‘name’ refers to a field, in this case the field ‘display name’. You can look up how to call a certain field in a placeholder in ‘Fields & properties’ in the general settings of the Organization Application.

After entering the placeholders, click on ‘save’ and go back to the element ‘Speakers’ of the conference.