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2A. 12: Interactive Sites
Your interactive site is another name for the site hosting the online registration forms your attendees use to enter information and make choices for their registration. Interactive Sites are created with a flexible drag-and-drop builder so you can make your own attractive and robust online registration forms.
There are also advanced features such as page logic and submit actions, to allow for any registration process you can imagine.
(Just a reminder that you should be using the "Advanced Topics: 2025 Advanced Education Summit" Sandbox Event, and if you've made significant changes to this event in other exercises, you may need to copy and create a new one to complete the exercises in this topic.)
2A.12.1.1 Creating an Interactive Site
An interactive form (or interactive site) can be thought of as online form that your attendees fill out when they register.
You ask questions and suggest options, and your attendees answer by giving information and choosing preferences during the online registration process.
EventsAir's drag-and-drop builder makes it easy to design and build Interactive Sites in an extremely short time frame.
The video demonstrates the basics to help you get started (or review what you already know):
2A.12.2.1 Designing Your Interactive Site
Almost every data field in EventsAir can be included in your online registration forms, so that you can find out exactly what you need to know about your attendees to ensure they have a great event experience.
Each section is called a component, and these can include options such as online payments, thank you pages, summary pages and custom HTML components where you can publish text and images.
To learn more, let's watch the video below:
2A.12.3.1 Advanced Site Options
There's a whole library of advanced functions you can include in your interactive site set-up. For example, you can choose which site content is 'view only'. You can specify how many and what type of choices you'll give when you're creating interactive content.
Two other important features are:
- Auto Login Tokens, which offer customized links for each attendee, to pre-populate their data once they click on the link. [These can also be used for apps and portals.]
- Logic functions, which control what is shown to attendees. This allows you to design sophisticated registration paths - a bit like letting attendees 'choose their own adventure', as logic operators control the flow of registration, based on selections made by the attendee.
Page Display logic allows you to only show a certain page when a particular option has been chosen on a previous page.
Page Validation Logic is used to ensure a certain item or question has been answered before allowing registration to continue.
Redirect Logic will take the attendee to a different registration site if their response meets the logic criteria.
Find out more by watching the video below:
2A.12.4.1 Site Submit Actions - Actions that occur once a form is submitted
When an attendee finishes filling out the interactive form on your registration site and clicks 'submit', their attendee record will be created or amended based on their responses. But that's just the beginning!
For example, you might want a Confirmation Email to be sent to every registrant, or a different email to be sent when people update their registration. There's a handy tool just for this purpose within the Interactive Site builder.
You can also use Site Submit Actions to make other actions whenever the 'submit' button is clicked, such as: sending an alert; sending a specific type of email to the attendee (filtered based on something they selected); sending an email to a third party such as your accounts team; or adding extra information to the attendee record (using a marketing tag you've created earlier, rather than having to include a direct question in your interactive form).
Let's take a look at the video below to find out more about all of these features:
Wrapping up
Congratulations on completing the Advanced/In-Depth topic on Interactive Sites!
In this lesson, we covered various aspects of creating interactive sites, including adding and customizing modules in the editor, setting up confirmation emails and submit actions, and adding visibility dates.