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 or conclude an event. The event will then have the status Concluded in Live Center. Concluded events appear in the events list by default (although you can hide them, see Filtering the Event List), but they are grayed out and cannot be edited. A concluded event remains published however, so it is still accessible on your web site.

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).

Automatic Twitter Publishing

Use this field to add a list of trusted Twitter accounts to the event. A trusted Twitter account is one that you trust to provide relevant and appropriate content for the event. All tweets from a trusted account are automatically imported into the event and embedded in entries, so that nobody needs to actively monitor the account and manually drag tweets into entries. You can choose whether or not the imported tweets should be automatically published or just submitted ready for moderation by an editor.

To add a trusted account, click on + and then fill out the following fields:

Twitter Account

The name of the trusted Twitter account.

Contains Text

An optional filter string. If you enter anything in this field, then only tweets that contain the string you enter will be imported from the account.

Author

The person who will be credited as the author of the entry - a Live Center user, not the author of the tweet. The field displays a drop-down list containing the names of all registered Content Studio / Live Center users, from which you can select a name.

Auto-publish

Check this option if you want tweets from this account to be automatically published with no moderation. Otherwise the tweets will just be submitted and will need to approved by a Live Center editor.

Live Center only imports tweets that are created while an event is live (that is, in the published state).

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.