Navigation
Decide which screens your attendees get, what they are called, and what order they are in.
What it is
The attendee app's bottom tab bar and side menu, under your control: rename any screen, reorder them, hide the ones you are not using, and add your own pages alongside the built-in ones.
When to use it
No event uses every feature. An Exhibitors tab on an event with no exhibitors is the fastest way to make an app feel unfinished.
Before you start
- The content you want to show actually exists — hiding is easy, filling is not.
Try it — this is a sandbox, nothing here is real
Take an app with everything switched on down to the four screens this event actually uses.
Defaults. Nine screens, four of them empty.
Empty
Empty
Empty
Attendee app
Now · Agenda · Speakers · Exhibitors · Me
Now · Agen… · Spea… · Exhi… · Spon… · Trav… · Me
Every label is truncated. Nothing is findable.
Now · Programme · Speakers · Exhibitors · Me
Exhibitors is still there, still empty
Renaming is cosmetic. It does not fill a screen and it does not hide one.
Now · Programme · Speakers · Me
Hidden, not deleted
The exhibitor and passport content is untouched. Unhide and it is back exactly as it was.
Click a control above. One of them is the mistake people actually make — take it on purpose.
Step by step
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Set the bottom tabsEvent App → App Customization → Navigation
The tab bar is the four or five screens attendees use constantly. Everything else belongs in the side menu. Drag a row by its handle to move it; the phone beside the list shows the bar as you go. Each row's grey chip says where it goes — a screen, a section, one of your pages, or a group. With more than five tabs shown, a dashed line appears in the list: the shown tabs below it fold into More.
Tip. Fewer tabs, not more. A five-tab bar on a phone leaves each label about six characters.
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Rename to your language
'Agenda' can be 'Programme'. 'Exhibitors' can be 'Marketplace'. The rename is cosmetic — it does not move any content. Click a row's icon to choose another from the grid, or Default for this entry to go back.
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Hide what you are not using
The eye on a row hides it: the row fades and says Hidden, and it leaves the phone. The content stays exactly where it is and comes back when you click the eye again.
Careful. Hiding is not permission. It removes the way in from the navigation; a link someone already has may still open the screen.
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Slot in your own pages
A page you wrote under Pages can sit in the tab bar or menu like any built-in screen.
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Add an app screen
Add tab (and Add item in the side menu) opens three choices — Section, App screen and Custom page — plus a group. App screen lists Announcements, Notifications, My Business Card, Chat, My Connections, Meetings, Surveys and Ask AI, alongside the four the app starts with. Pick one and it joins the list, where you can rename it, change its icon and move it. A tick marks the ones already added. Screens you add this way can be deleted again; Now, Agenda, People and Me can only be hidden. When the event has more than one survey, each one is listed under Surveys too: pick a survey and the tab opens that form directly, named after it, instead of the list. A Surveys entry already in the bar gets an Opens choice under its row to switch between all surveys and one of them. A tab pointing at a survey that is still a draft, or has been deleted, opens the Surveys screen instead.
Tip. A screen that belongs to an add-on — Chat, Meetings, Surveys — still depends on it. Add the tab and switch the add-on on together, or attendees open a screen with nothing in it.
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Give notifications a way in
Notifications is an app screen like any other: the switch attendees use to get your announcements on their phone, above the announcements themselves. Add it as a bottom tab or a menu item, or turn on the Notifications button under Top bar, which puts it beside the menu button on every screen. Pick its icon (a bell unless you change it) and its name, which is also the title of the screen it opens.
Tip. Attendees who never find the switch never get a push. A bell in the top bar is the most visible way in.
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Shorten the top-bar title
Every screen's top bar shows the event name. If that name is long or formal — "NookPass - Asia Tech Summit" — set a Title under Top bar and it shows instead. Leave it blank to keep the event name. The event's own name, used on tickets and emails, does not change.
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Quick actions
The shortcuts on the home screen, and the floating button. Point them at whatever this event actually needs first.
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Screens that come from a module
Passport, Live Q&A, Contacts and Lucky Draw appear in the same lists as Speakers or Sponsors — as a tab, a menu item, a quick action or the floating button. The screen itself stays switched off until its module is on (Settings → Features), so add it to the navigation and turn the module on together.
Careful. These four open as their own screen. Inside a grouped tab they show a button into that screen rather than filling the group's panel.
When it goes wrong
Every one of these has happened to someone. Symptom first, because that is what you will have.
Too many tabswarning
Hid a screen expecting it to be privateblocker
Screens in the app with nothing in themgotcha
Renamed a screen and expected it to changegotcha