How to Add Directions to an Event?

Provide event participants with good orientation in the area with a map highlighting important and interesting places. The Maps functionality is built on Google Maps, allowing participants to use GPS navigation to the specified point.

Adding Categories

To add new places, you must first create a category for them, which is a group indicating the type, e.g., restaurants, tourist attractions, or parking lots.

In the top menu, select the Create section, and then on the left side, choose the Maps module. To add a new category, select the (+) Add New Category icon. When creating the first category, this button will be in the center of the screen; later, you will find the same button in the lower right part of the screen:

Adding Places on the Map

After creating a category, continue filling out the module by adding all locations. To add a new place on the map, press the (+) Add Place button in the appropriate category. In the displayed window, fill in the Name and Address fields – these are required.

When filling in the Address field, you can choose one of the suggestions that will appear below or enter the entire address and indicate the correct location manually:

• If one of the Google suggestions appearing under the Address field is selected, the pin will be automatically moved to the target location
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• If you do not get the correct suggestions from the field when entering the address, enter a similar or more general address, e.g., just the street name and city. Then, use the right mouse button to place the pin in the correct location on the map. After setting the pin, enter the address in the field as you wish.

If you do not choose any of the suggested addresses and do not move the pin, the location will be saved with default coordinates (0 longitude and 0 latitude):

WARNING!

If the pin appears in the wrong place, you can always move it by right-clicking in the appropriate location on the map.

For each created object, you can also add a website address, description, and photo. These elements are intended to help participants properly identify the place, as well as obtain additional information or facilitate booking the place.

Each pin can look different on the map. You can set the appearance of the pin using a simple color and icon editor. Choose one of the available icons and set the color scheme for its individual elements:

PRO TIP

To avoid excessive diversity, set a similar color theme for pins in the same category. By replicating the same color scheme, it will be easier to highlight a key pin that will be the only one looking different.

Visibility of the module and/or category for a selected user group

Editing visibility in the Venues module allows for subtle distribution of dedicated data, such as VIP parking or the evening event location for a closed guest list. You can set a user group for the entire module or for individual categories within the module.

To create objects with access restricted to a selected user group, it is necessary to prepare user_group type tags. You can find detailed instructions in the article: “Managing Content in the App – Tag Database”.

After creating tags in the Tag Database section, from Create > Content, select the Venues module from the menu on the right side. In the displayed window, go to the module settings by clicking the ellipsis located to the right of the name. Then select from the dropdown list Choose User Group:

After opening the window on the right side of the screen, select the previously created user_grup tags that you want to assign to this module:

To change the visibility of individual categories, go to edit the tags assigned to it user_groups. To do this, click the ellipsis located to the right of the category name, and then select from the dropdown list Edit User Groups, to change the settings for the selected category:

After opening the window on the right side of the screen, select the previously created tags user_grup, which you want to assign to the selected category within the module.

NOTE!

From now on, newly created categories will automatically include all tags added to the module. Remember to remove the tag All users from the category intended only for a specific group of users, e.g., for the VIP group:

PRO TIP

Clicking and holding the left mouse button on the selected category will allow you to drag it to another place on the list, thus changing the order of displayed categories in the mobile application.

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