Channels
(This feature is exclusive to our Emphasis theme! Not sure you're using Emphasis? Contact your Client Success Manager via support@concept3d.com)
Permission Required: Platform Admin, Calendar Manager
OR
Event Manager/Editor/Author + Channel Manager
Channels are a Promotion tool that pull your events based on already existing Classifications (or date ranges) to showcase them in one place, within your platform. Channels are designed for short-term events like festivals, or topics that have many different components but one theme.
Channels are highly customizable with drag and drop components so you can make them have a different look and feel than the rest of your platform. Your homepage itself is a Channel, so it can be customized in the same way as any other Channel.
How to Add and Edit Channels
From your Admin Dashboard, navigate to Content > Channels > Select + Add Channel.
- Edit Settings: Allows you to edit options like the Page Title and Header Text, add custom CSS for the channel, or change its Visibility settings.
- Edit Layout: Will let you choose the layout itself, as well curate what displays in each component via the Edit Component column on the right.
Edit Settings Key
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Copy Layout From | You can create your Channel using your homepage or another Channel as a base for the layout. You also have the option to start with a blank layout. |
| Page Title | This will appear in the browser tab. |
| Header Text | This will appear at the top of the page (This Summer’s Hottest Events). |
| Custom URL | This is the URL suffix for your Channel (ex. yourcustomdomain.com/summer_events). |
| Visibility | Your options are:
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| Cover Photo | Localist automatically detects if the image is light or dark, which controls whether the header text appears as black or white.
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| Lock Navigation to Channel | By default, navigation is locked, which means selecting All Events, Filters, or Mini Cal dates will update the Channel. If unchecked, these links will take the user out of the Channel and to the results pages containing all events. |
| Custom CSS | This is open to all standard CSS for display changes, such as size and color tweaks. |
Channel Layout
After saving your new Channel, you'll automatically be redirected to the Channel Layout page. In the future, you can access this page by selecting the Edit Layout button for the Channel you wish to edit on the Channels page.Channel Components Key
To re-order the components, just simply click and drag in the order you prefer. To add a new one, click Add Component. All components have a corresponding Container CSS Classes field that allows you to designate a specific class for targeting. For example, if you enter xyz submit button then you can target xyz submit button {background-color: red; } and only have the rule apply to the submit button on that specific Channel. The available components are listed below:
| Component | Details |
|---|---|
| Add Event Block | The default Share Events and Widget Builder box. |
| App Store Button | Allows you to link directly to any apps you have in the App Store. |
| Channel List | A list of some or all of the Channels on your platform. You are able to select which ones you want to appear. |
| Community List | A list of the Communities on your platform. |
| Department List | A list of the Department Pages on your platform (with links). |
| Description | Add a description to your Channel. |
| Event List | Add a list of events (each list will have its own label to toggle between lists). |
| Event Spotlight | Showcase a specific event. |
| Event Tabs | Each section where the event list appear. |
| Featured Groups | Add a list of sponsors to your Channel. |
| Featured Tabs | Add a Featured Events Carousel(s) to your Channel. |
| Featured Users | Add a list of speakers to your Channel. |
| Filter Events | Your platform's Filter list (you cannot have a Channel specific filter list). |
| Group List | A list of the Group Pages on your platform (with links). |
| Header | Add a header to your Channel (great for a banner or notice). |
| Hero Image | Add an image that can link to a website (great for advertisements). |
| HTML | Add any HTML embed you would like (i.e. a weather bot for a festival). |
| Map | Add a map of all your events in the Channels with pins at each event location with a list of events happening there. |
| Place List | A list of the Place Pages on your platform (with links). |
| Platform Nav | The navigation buttons to help your users find events (All Events, Places to Go, Groups, Departments. |
| RSS | Add an RSS feed of events. |
| Social Links | Add a Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram button linking to your respective account(s)./td> |
| Submit Event Button | Takes users to the Public Event Submission Form. |
| Website Link | Add a link to an external website, like a festival page or registration form. |
Specifying Channel Events
By default, a Channel includes one Event Tabs: Group component that displays a Trending Event List and an Upcoming Event List as well as one Featured Tabs: Group with one Featured Slider assigned to it. To modify the content of your Event Tabs, select an Event List. The following options will appear in an Edit Component list on the right side:
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Title | Text that appears on the left as the header of the list tab (“Trending Events”). |
| Label | Text that a user selects to switch event lists (“Trending” below). |
| Container CSS Classes | Enter a unique selector to target only this Channel's component with custom CSS. |
| Sort Events | You can sort events By EventScore (trending) or By Date (chronologically). |
| Number of Events | Choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 25, 50, 75 or 100 events. |
| Time Period | Keeping “Today” selected ensures that the Channel will include content within a rolling time period starting from today and ending a maximum of 366 days in the future. To create a non-rolling time period, select “Custom” to specify a different start date, then continue by number of days past the start date that the period should include. |
| Include in Trending | By selecting this option, Localist will create a Trending Event List that only includes events from all current Event Lists that also have this option selected.
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| Show Link to All Events | If selected, a “view more events” link will be displayed at the bottom of the Event List that will link users to the regular, unfiltered All Events page. |
| Included | You can specify to include events related to all available Classifications (Filters, Places, Groups, Departments, Tags, and Keywords). |
| Excluded | You can specify to exclude events related to all available Classifications (Filters, Places, Groups, Departments, Tags, and Keywords). |