How to create the speaker registration form?

It is advisable to have a separate form for speaker registration so you could create fields specific to speakers like Bio, presentation files and other Speaker-specific fields. 
You’re not required to create a separate field for photo upload because there’s already a place under user dashboard to upload their photo.

  

All users who registered through Speaker registration form are listed in Speakers tab under Contacts.

Steps to create the speaker registration form:

Go to Forms & Data > Form builder and Click on Create New Form

Enter a name for the form eg. Speaker Registration Form. Select “Registration Type” option under form type. Select the Speaker role from the dropdown and click on Save.

This would create the Speaker Registration Form in your website to allow prospective users to register as speakers. It also creates a Widget named “Speakers” under Homepage widgets to display a list of Speakers on the homepage and would also create a link to this form in the top navigation bar.

To add custom fields in the speaker form, Click on Add new field button in the top right corner. You can create as many fields as you want including file upload fields, checkbox fields, dropdown fields and all other field types that are available.

I cannot access contacts when clicking on next button. How to fix it?

This happens due to data cached for a long time. Please clear cached data from you browser, exit the browser and re-open the Contacts page. Here’s how to clear cache for different browsers:

Chrome

  1. In the browser bar, enter:
     chrome://settings/clearBrowserData
  2. Select the following:
    • Browsing history 
    • Download history 
    • Cookies and other site and plug-in data 
    • Cached images and files 
  3. From the Obliterate the following items from: drop-down menu, you can choose the period of time for which you want to clear cached information. To clear your entire cache, select the beginning of time.

  4. Click Clear browsing data. 
  5. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser. 

 

Firefox

  1. From the History menu, select Clear Recent History.

    If the menu bar is hidden, press Alt to make it visible.

  2. From the Time range to clear: drop-down menu, select the desired range; to clear your entire cache, select Everything
  3. Next to “Details”, click the down arrow to choose which elements of the history to clear; to clear your entire cache, select all items. 
  4. Click Clear Now
  5. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser. 

Microsoft Edge

  1. In the top right, click the Hub icon (looks like three horizontal lines).
  2. Click the History icon, and then select Clear all history.
  3. Select Browsing history, then Cookies and saved website data, and then Cached data and files. Click Clear.
  4. After the “All Clear!” message appears, exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.

 

Opera

  1. From the Opera menu, select Settings, and then Delete Private Data…. 
  2. In the dialog box that opens, select the items you want to clear, and then click Delete
  3. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser. 

 

Safari

  1. From the Safari menu, select Clear History and Website Data…. 
  2. Select the desired time range, and then click Clear History. 
  3. Go to Safari > Quit Safari or press Command-Q to exit the browser completely. 

How do I add information in speakers and attendees public profile?

It is pretty straightforward actually. In this tutorial, we will add a field to be displayed publicly in speakers profile. 

First, go to the Form builder tool, click on Create new form button to create a new form, name it, for example, Speakers bio, select the speaker role when asked to choose a role type. This creates a form which is supposed to be used to enter speaker-specific data.

Now. click on Add new field to create a new field called “Bio” under Speaker bio form. Enter all the details of the field, select the speaker bio form from the right, make it published, set access level to public so anyone who visits the website can see this field in the profile, and tick the box to display this field in the profile. See screenshot below.

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Now, go to Contacts and click on a speaker’s profile to enter her bio. Let’s say, I want to add bio for Yvonne Stewart. I click on her name to go to her contact details page, and under Speakers bio section, I add some information about her in the Bio field and clicked on Save button to save it. See screenshot below.

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This information, now displays under Yvonne’s overview section in her public profile. See screenshot.

We also have a lot of video tutorials you can take help of. Go to http://www.youtube.com/c/dryftaeventplatform for our video tuts.