Creating Events in Content Studio

To create a new event, start Content Studio and create a content item of the type Event. An Event content item usually has the following fields:

Title

The title of the event.

Description

A brief description of the event.

Entry type

Select the type of entry you want to use for this event. The options available in this field will depend upon the entry types defined in your publication.

Disable event

Check this option to disable an event. The event will then not appear in the Live Center Live Events list. It will still appear in the All Events list, but will be read-only.

Clear author field on submit

By default, the Author field in event entries is persistent: if you set it when you submit an entry, then your choice is remembered and applied to any subsequent entries you add, until you explicitly change it or clear it. Check this option if you would prefer the Author field to be cleared every time an entry is submitted.

Subscriptions

You can use this field to add social media feeds to your event. Currently you can add the following social media feeds.

• Twitter: Select Twitter as the Source and then enter a query string in the Query field. You can add multiple Twitter feeds, each with a different query string. Currently Live Center supports hash tag, user and free text search. You also need to add twitterAPIKey and twitterAPISecret as instructed in General Settings

• RSS: Select RSS as the Source and then enter feed url in the Query field. You can add multiple RSS feeds, each with a different url.

• YouTube: Select YouTube as the Source and then enter the text that you want to search in the Query field. You can add multiple Youtube feeds, each with a different text. You also need to add googleApiKey as instructed in General Settings

• Instagram: Select Instagram as the Source and then enter the text that you want to search in the Query field. You can add multiple Instagram feeds, each with a different text. You also need to add instagramAccessToken as instructed in General Settings.

Twitter profile

The profile to use for posting entries to Twitter. The selected profile is only used if the event's entries include a Post to Twitter check box (see Posting to Twitter).

Video stream

You can use this field to add a live video stream to an event. The video stream is not displayed in the Live Center webapp, but can be displayed in the published live blog if your publication has been configured to support it. The field actually allows you to specify more than one video stream: this allows you to specify different versions of the video stream for display on different devices, for example. To add a video stream, click on the + button and then specify:

Mime type

The MIME type of the video stream

URL

The URL of the video stream

Once you have filled out all the fields, Save the content item to create the event.