Hope everyone is having a great September and that your events have gone (or will go) well! We have some exciting new updates to share with you:
- SOC II Type 2 Certification
- Updated Navigation
- Headshot Restriction Settings
- Agenda Updates
- Primary Speakers
- Session Capacity Support
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📣 Announcements
Sessionboard has achieved SOC 2 Type II certification!
This milestone demonstrates our ongoing commitment to keeping customer data secure and maintaining the highest standards of operational excellence. Unlike Type I, which is a point-in-time audit, SOC 2 Type II validates that our security and compliance practices are consistently followed over time.
✅ New Features
1) Updated Navigation:
"There are too many clicks to see what I need".
We've heard you and we're making some updates. As part of our improved UX rollout, we have restructured the left hand navigation bar to make it easier for you to jump to exactly what you are looking for -- without needing to click through 3 other pages first. We have also improved how much vertical space you have to manage your content (e.g. on the Agenda pages).
Highlights:
- Contacts-> Quickly jump to segmented lists of your contacts (Speakers, Chairpersons, Moderators, Submitters)
- Sessions-> Jump to core components of your session management lifecycle (Collecting submissions, Evaluating, Building your agenda, Embedding your content and managing your settings)
- Portal-> Easily manage components of your portals across Forms, File Requests, Tasks, Resources and Files.
- Content-> We consider your files, tags and fields as aids in facilitating the content you collect and store. We provide tools on top of these such as Remixing your content and generating documents.
Please let us know any feedback after you've had some time with the new navigation.
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2) Headshot Restriction Settings
:One of our top requested features as arrived! On an event by event basis, you can now control what type of files and maximum file size for headshots being uploaded to your event. This will not auto-downsize the images -- it will only prevent them from being uploaded, providing the end-user with instructions on why the image was disallowed.
If enabled, this will apply restrictions across: Submission Forms, Portal Forms, Application Forms, Editing Profiles as a Portal Users and Editing Profiles as an Admin User.
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3) Zoom In and Zoom Out of "Rooms" Agenda View
:We heard your feedback. It has been a pain to manage many rooms within your Agenda view. We are making life a little bit easier for you in two different ways. First:
You can now Zoom In and Zoom Out of your Rooms view to fit all of your rooms on one screen:
- On the "Agenda" -> "Rooms" view, you'll now see the "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" icons
- Zooming In will expand the column widths to show less rooms but more session details on one page
- Zooming Out will shrink the column widths to show more rooms on one page
- You can keep zooming out until all the columns are showing or 10% zoom, whichever comes first
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4) View all of your rooms vertically (instead of horizontally):
The second way we're making life a bit easier is by giving you the option to view all of your rooms vertically. This makes it so if you do have 20-30 rooms, you can now scroll up or down through your rooms and view all the sessions from left to right that belong to the room.
- Click on the "Vertical" icon in the top left corner of the "Agenda" -> "Rooms" view
- You can now view all of your rooms vertically
- You can still drag and drop sessions from the sidebar into different rooms -- and sessions from room to room
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5) Primary Speakers:
You can now turn on the ability to denote specific speakers (or authors) as "Primary" across your sessions. This will help you understand who is the primary point of contact and who to feature for a given session or abstract.
- See below for how to enable this for your event. You can toggle on/off speakers being "primary" within the "Bulk Edit" speakers modal on a Session profile.
- If you use the Sessionboard API, you will be able to see is a Speaker is_primary.
- We'd love to hear feedback from you regarding how else you'd like to leverage "Primary Speakers". Let us know.
How it works:
-> Enable tracking primary speakers for your event:
-> Toggle who is a primary speaker on a Session:
-> Quickly see throughout your sessions who the primary speaker is:
-> Submitters can designate on Submission Forms if a speaker is primary or not:
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6) Session Capacity:
Many of our customers manage capacity at the Session level (vs. the Room level -- or sometimes both!). We've now made "Capacity" a first-class property on Sessions.
If you're using the Swoogo integration, you can now map Capacity to your Swoogo Session Capacity and sync it over, as well.
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✨ Clean Up
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When creating Applications, you can now show / hide any Global fields. Previously this was limited to only Event level fields.2)
When using translations, we fixed an issue that was preventing you from properly editing a Contact's biography in any other language besides English.--
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Have a feature or enhancement you'd like to see on Sessionboard? Submit your feedback to us and help us continue to build the best speaker and content management solution for your team: https://feedback.sessionboard.com/