How to Configure Special Event Template

Welcome to the Special Event Template Guide!

Use the information below to configure each piece of your Event's page.

How to set up each part of your Event Template:

Copy the Page Templates

Connect Syndicated Pages

Update Home Page Content

Update Banner Image

Update Navigation Link Tabs

Update "Schedule" Content

Copy the Page Templates

  1. Go to "Edit Navigation"
  2. Under the "ADMIN" tab, Click the + next to "Special Event Template ..."
  3. On the page labeled "Special Event - Homepage" click the ellipsis to copy the page
  4. When prompted, update the name of your event page as desired and ensure the checkbox to include "child" pages is checked.
    • This will make a copy of each page needed to create the special event page
  5. Now, we need to update our page codes/URLs for each page
    • Use easy to understand naming conventions when possible
    • To help with future steps, paste these page codes on a notepad or sticky note
  6. Once these are all updated and published, now we will start configuring content and resetting each syndicated page to look for the correct items.

Update the Copied Page Codes

Now that each page has been copied, let's update the page codes in the navigation:

  1. Click through each of your new pages and update:
    "Special Event" to your event name in the page titles
    "event-name" in the page code and URL's to your desired page code name - delete the little numbers after if you would like for consistency
  2. Publish each page as you go to save each update

  • Helpful Tip

    Use a text file to keep a note of your page code names. We will need them for the next step in the setup process.

Connect the Syndicated Pages

Event "Home Page"

Open the "Home" page for your event and click "Edit Page"

Click on the "Banner Template" content area, and start typing in the name of your event, the page code bar will "search" and your banner page should be the first one in the list. Click "Save" to update the image's page.
ex. "annual conference - banner"

Click on "Navigation Template" and, start typing the name of the event to search for the " - Navigation" page for your event. ex. "annual conference - navigation" and save the page. 

Event "Schedule" Page

Open the "Schedule" page for your event and click "Edit Page"

Click on the "Banner Template" content area, and start typing in the name of your event, the page code bar will "search" and your " - Banner" page should be the first one in the list. Click "Save" to update the image's page.
ex. "annual conference - banner"

Click on "Navigation Template" and, start typing the name of the event to search for the " - Navigation" page for your event. ex. "annual conference - navigation" and save the page. 

  • Hyperlink Tips

    When possible, use page codes in place of full URL's.

  • Remember

    Always make edits and changes to the copied page, not the original template.

Video Guide

Update Home Page Content

Open the Home page and click "Edit Page" to make changes to the page content.

Double click on any HTML content item to make changes to your text, images or other content. 

Add new Content

You can add any HTML based content or drag in additional widgets. 

Remove / Hide Content

To hide individual content items from the page, use the "Hide" checkbox located in the properties.

To remove a row, click to select the desired row and click the "trash can" icon to delete.

If you would like to hide a whole row of content rather than deleting it from the page, you can add the class "hide-row" to the "CSS Wrapper Name" text box.

To update the banner image:

  1. Go to "Edit Navigation" and find your event home page
  2. Click the + to open the child pages and select the "Banner" page
  3. Double click to open the HTML content item
  4. Replace the image, text content and registration link
  5. Publish the page.

  • Helpful Tip

    Refer to the "Style Guide" page for image size recommendations

  1. Go to "Edit Navigation" and find the "Event Home" page
  2. Click the + to open the child pages and choose the "- Navigation" page and click "edit"
  3. Open the HTML Content item on the page and update your links
    • ALWAYS: Replace each page code for the "Home, "Schedule" and "Register" pages
      Update the additional link text and page codes or delete unneeded links.
    • OPTIONAL: Additional link tabs can be created by adding additional bullets to this list.
  4. Save the HTML content item and publish the page to update across all Event pages.

  • Hyperlink Tips

    When possible, use page codes in place of full URL's.

Update "Schedule" Content

Vertical Tabs

Each vertical tab link in the sidebar's HTML content item will coincide with a row located in the right content row.

  • Update the tab names as needed but leave the links as they are.
  • You can add additional tabs to this list!
    Make a copy of an existing row, update the number in the CSS Wrapper text box for the row, and then add a link to the list in the sidebar for this new section.
    ex.Class name: tab4 > tab5

Note

Copying the special event template will sometimes scramble and rearrange content on the copied page if there are multiple HTML blocks in a singular row.

  • If this happens, put the announcement first and then each day in respective order.
  • Schedule layout rows will never rearrange