Once you create a function, the event website can show it in the online schedule and on the function’s own page. Visitors open the function page from the schedule or from a direct link. This article explains what visitors see in each place and how Hide this function from the portal and Hide this function from the schedule change that experience.
Where to Find It
You do not need to set up anything here beyond the settings on the function itself, which are described in Functions. A site builder uses the Portal page designer to add the schedule, its type filter, and a function page as blocks on your account’s website. The site builder chooses where those blocks appear.
What the Schedule Shows
The event’s online schedule lists sessions and functions together, and visitors can use the type filter to narrow the list. The filter includes every function type in your account, including inactive types. If you deactivate a type that a scheduled function still uses, visitors can still see that type in the filter.
When Hide this function from the portal or Hide this function from the schedule is checked, the function does not appear in the schedule listing. The schedule removes functions with either setting before visitors see the list.
Warning
The schedule’s filter dropdowns have a fixed width that you cannot adjust. If a function type, location, or other filter value is long, the dropdown can cut it off, and there is currently no way to widen the dropdown to show the full text.
Warning
The schedule component is not customizable beyond the settings this article covers. You cannot remove or change its built-in search box, headers, tablet-specific headers, or speaker type display through page design; that would require a product change.
Warning
The schedule widget converts session and function times to each visitor’s detected time zone instead of keeping them in the event’s time zone, and staff cannot force the conference time zone. If a function or session is scheduled late in the evening in the event’s time zone, it can appear under the next calendar day when the visitor’s time zone, or the way the schedule renders times, shifts it past midnight. The function’s own page behaves differently because it always shows the time in the event’s time zone.
What a Function's Own Page Shows
When a visitor clicks a function’s name in the schedule or opens its direct link, they see the function’s own page. It shows:
- the function’s name as a heading;
- a sold-out notice when the function has reached capacity;
- its start and end date and time, in the event’s time zone, when set;
- its location, when set;
- its description, or a note that no description is on file when the description is empty.
A View Event Schedule button takes the visitor back to the schedule. Visitors cannot buy a ticket or join a waitlist on this page; they buy tickets on the event’s registration form.
Warning
Hide this function from the portal keeps a function off the schedule listing and the registration form, but it does not restrict the function’s own page. Anyone who has, or finds, the direct link to a hidden function can still open its page and see its name, schedule, location, sold-out status, and description. Use the setting to remove a function from the places visitors browse, not to make the function confidential.
Dependencies and Precedence
- The type filter uses the account-wide list from Function Types, not only the function types used by the current event.
- The details on the function’s own page, including its schedule, location, and description, come from the function record. See Functions.
Change Impact and How to Revert
When you turn either hide setting on or off for a function, the change takes effect the next time the schedule loads. You do not need to publish anything else. Because hiding a function does not restrict its own page, unhiding it later does not affect anyone who already found the direct link while it was hidden.
Permissions
Visitors do not need to sign in to view a function in the schedule or open its own page. Both are public parts of your account’s website.
Validation and Errors
These pages do not include a form for visitors to fill in, so there is nothing to validate here. If a function’s page fails to load, the visitor sees a message that the function could not be loaded and can return to the schedule.