4h ago

Link Agenda Items

Current Situation: We use agenda items as time markers for in-person meetups, which effectively communicates upcoming events to members. Requested Feature: Add the ability to link agenda items to external URLs, making each agenda item clickable. Use Case: When members view an agenda item, they could click directly on it to: - Access registration/ticketing pages - Visit custom landing pages for specific events - Link to additional event resources or information Business Value: - Streamlines the user journey from agenda viewing to in person event registration - Reduces friction in the conversion process - Provides flexibility to direct users to customised landing pages for meetups, networking events both online and offline etc. - Enhances the utility of agenda items beyond just time markers Implementation: - Add an optional "External URL" field when creating/editing agenda items - Make agenda items with URLs clickable in the member interface - Consider visual indicators (like a small link icon) to show which items are clickable This would transform agenda items from passive information displays into active conversion tools while maintaining their current time-marking functionality. I do note that their exists the ability for an agenda item to have a custom page automatically generated. However there seems to be minimal abilities to customise that page. I assume enabling a custom page would link the agenda item to that system generated page. If we had full editorial control over that page it would eliminate the need for the above. Maybe their is a better user flow than this, if so I am all ears :=)

Completed

2 hours ago

Hi Andrew. This has now been delivered. Please see the changelog below for further information. https://heysummit.userjot.com/updates/p/more-flexibility-for…

2 hours ago

Works exactly as we hoped, and J.I.T perfect, thanks so much we are now adding additional extrenally hosted meetups. This is perfect. Appreciate it

2 hours ago

AN awesome tweak would be to NOT open in new browser tab if its a local URL. WIll work happily with what we have though

2 hours ago

Fantastic, so glad that's useful for you. And great idea if a relative url… we’ll roll that out in the next 15 minutes

2 hours ago

Thanks that has worked. Things to note: only works with the type “schedule note” and “break” but not “time marker”. I also checked in translations and I cannot translate “schedule note” to meetups or similar. Is there ny way we could add that to translations? Or maybe add that as an additional option in Agenda Items (or allow users to add more types)? We can work with what we have got simply with clear naming of the items in any case.

2 hours ago

Hey Andrew, great catch. We've just rolled out an update that resolves these issues. 1) Time markers can now also have dedicated pages or external links linked to them. 2) We've added translatable strings for the agenda item type labels (i.e., schedule note, agenda item, break, etc.) Note that we're deploying as we speak, and it may take 5-⁠10 minutes to fully propagate across our servers.

2 hours ago

Thanks again! Appreciated.

2 hours ago

Thanks Andrew. Interesting scenario. I agree the current approach where it gives you the option of generating a talk page, albeit with restrictions, is probably going to create more problems than not given that this is not a broadcast style page, but an information one where you probably want a bit more control over things. Leave it with me. I'll see if we can roll out some improvements in this area next week.

2 hours ago

Thanks Ben, an example of a landing page we created would be https://hub.emailexpert.org/zagreb An alternative workaround, if this is complex, might be to allow us to embed a link in the description field. We could then manually embed a hyperlink to the custom landing page and that could work.

2 hours ago

@Andrew Bonar , Which event type did you choose for the hub?

2 hours ago

We settled with ongoing series after a fair bit of testing, and preloaded before soft launch with a lot of video content for view on demand

2 hours ago

Having the hub double as your on-demand video library makes sense. Do you keep new replays on their own event page? Or do you copy them over to the hub as well?

2 hours ago

They all stay within that event. We shedule additional events and some are live streamed free, others you need to pay to view live streams. To be fair we are just launching our live stream next month. But you can register directly for those events from dedicated landing pages, but al registrations, video etc lives inside the hub. This means they can see all past registrations and tickets in the member area. Speakers only register once and update their profile for all events etc. It works for us.

2 hours ago

I’m in the process of moving data of older events to the ongoing event and making things look logical. I believe it will work just fine. It’s a lot of fiddling, but it’s fun when things start coming together.