Home screen
Arrange the widgets on the first screen an attendee sees.
What it is
The Now screen, built from widgets you arrange: a hero, quick actions, the next sessions, the latest announcement, your own HTML — and, if you want them there, a content section or an app screen.
When to use it
It is the screen with the highest traffic in the whole product and the only one every attendee definitely sees.
Step by step
- 1
Click what you want to changeEvent App → App Customization → Home Screen
Home opens in three panes, like the landing page editor: your widgets on the left, the phone in the middle, and the settings of whatever is selected on the right. Click anything on the phone — or its name in the list — to edit it. Home screen, at the top of the list, holds the page header and the background.
- 2
Change the hero's words
Click the Event hero. Its title, subtitle and welcome message are in its settings; leave a line blank to use the event's own name and dates. The shortcuts are in the Quick actions widget's settings.
- 3
Add and reorder widgets
Add a widget, at the bottom of the list, opens everything Home can show; the new widget goes in below the one you have selected. Drag a widget in the list to reorder it. The eye takes a widget off Home without deleting it — while you have a hidden widget selected, the phone draws it faded where it would go. Removing a widget offers Undo.
- 4
Put a section or a screen on Home
Add a widget lists Speakers, Exhibitors, Sponsors, Photos and the rest under From your event, and the Agenda, People, Announcements and the other screens under App screens, each with a line saying whether it is listed on Home or shown as a button that opens it. Give it your own heading in its settings if its name is not the one you want. Choose Passport and each attendee sees their own stamps on Home; a visitor who has not signed in sees a sign-in prompt, unless you set the widget to Signed-in only. A section or screen is loaded only while its widget is on Home, so adding one costs nothing on the events that do not use it.
- 5
Decide what needs a sign-in
A widget that greets someone by name has nothing to say to a visitor who has not signed in. In its settings, set Visible to to Signed-in only and it hides for them instead; a padlock marks it in the list. A Custom HTML widget that uses
{user.…}details says so while it is still shown to everyone. - 6
Save
Nothing reaches attendees until you press Save at the top right, or ⌘S / Ctrl+S. The toolbar reads Unsaved changes while there is something to keep — the widgets, the hero's words and the shortcuts all save together — and Discard puts everything back. History brings back any earlier save of the widgets.