How to set up the Event Wall?

With Eventdrive, you can customize the way the questions, vote & quiz and tags cloud are displayed on your Event Wall. Size and color of the text, paddings and design. In this article, find out how to set up and customize your Event Wall.

Before starting, be sure of the following things:

1. Open a " Wall " tab thanks to the " Shortcut " at the top right of the administration tool.
2. Open a " Moderation " tab thanks to the " Shortcut " at the top right of the administration tool.
3. Broadcast a test question or a vote on the wall. While setting up, it will help you to see the results and adjust in real time. You can show the new settings by refreshing the page in your browser.

Step 1

In the Eventdrive administration tool, go to " LIVE WALLS ", then " Event Wall parameters ".

Step 2

Edit the field of " General " :

• " Family fonts " : choose the font you want for your text. Why are there several successive fonts? Because if the computer which broadcasts the content doesn't have the first font, it will use the second or the third one.
• " Background color " : you can use a color of your graphic charter or another one. This field is to fill in only if you don't want a background image.
• " Font color " : you can choose the color of your content. If you want to see the questions and votes in red, enter the hexadecimal code required. You'll see later in this article how to customize the color display of each service.
• Then, look at the different " Paddings ". The Paddings are useful to define how your content will be displayed on the Event Wall. Save at the bottom of the page and play with the pixels to find the perfect settings.
• " Bottom position ": set the position of your background image if you want to use a one to customize your wall.
• " Bottom size ": it is useful if you add an image to customize your wall. Try the different sizes, save at the bottom of the page and look at the results directly on the tab " Wall ".
• " Background ": drag your background image directly in this space to add it. 

Required file format : 

Image .png or .jpg

1920px x 1080px

To save your settings, do not forget to " Validate " at the bottom of the page and look at the results by refreshing the tab " Wall " in your browser.

Step 3

Edit the " Header " if you want to add one.

• " Logo " : drag your logo/image directly in this space to add one.

Required file format : 

Image .png or .jpg

• " Height " : do not forget to adjust the height of your header according to the image you added.
• " Background color " : add a background color if you want.
• " Logo position " : change the position of your logo/image.

Save at the bottom of the page by clicking on " Validate " and go to " Wall " to look at the results. Do not forget to refresh your page " Wall " to see the results. 

Step 4

Edit the " Footer " if you want to add one.

• " Logo " : drag your logo/image for your footer directly in this space to add it.

Required file format : 

Image .png ou .jpg.

• " Height " : do not forget to adjust the height of your footer according to the image you added.
• " Background color " : add a background color if you want.
• " Logo position " : change the position of your logo/image.

Save at the bottom of the page by clicking on " Validate " and go to " Wall " to look at the results. Do not forget to refresh your page " Wall " to see the results. 

Step 5

Edit the section " Express your opinion " if you want to set up this service. Here, you will choose how the questions of your attendees are going to be displayed on the Event Wall.

• Activate or deactivate the features " Show the shadow " / " Show the 'like' " / " Show the author " / " Show the avatar " by clicking on the dedicated buttons. The deactivated buttons are in orange.
• In the first column are the questions settings. Choose the " Size of questions ", the " Color of questions " and add a " Background color of questions " if you want.
• In the second column, it is the the 'like' customization. Choose the " Size of 'like' ", the " Height of 'like' " and choose a " 'Like' color ". By default, Eventdrive will use your event color.
• The next column is for the author of the question, so the name of the attendee who asked the question. Choose the " Author size " and the " Author color ".
• To finish with, choose the " Avatar height " of the author.
• You can also choose to " Show the position " and " Show the company " of the author at the same time of his/her question.

Save at the bottom of the page by clicking on " Validate " and go to " Wall " to look at the results. Do not forget to refresh your page " Wall " to see the results. 

Step 6

Edit the " Tags cloud ". Here, you can define 6 colors in which the tags will be displayed.

It is required to put hexadecimal codes. You can use the colors of your graphic charter. If you decide not to fill in the dedicated fields, Eventdrive will use default colors.

Save at the bottom of the page by clicking on " Validate " and go to " Wall " to look at the results. Do not forget to refresh your page " Wall " to see the results. 

Step 7

Finish the Event Wall configuration with " Vote & Quiz "

To look at the results, we advise you to broadcast a test vote on your Event Wall.

• " Size of questions " : choose the size of questions.
• " Size of answers " : choose the size of answers and the height of results bars.
• " Size of percentages " : choose the size of percentages.
• " Bars height " : choose the size of bars height.
• " Color of questions " : choose the color of questions / answers / percentages and background answers.
• " Color of percentages " : choose the percentage color and background answers.
• " Background color of answers " : choose the background color of answers.
• " Podium color " : choose the color of podium.
• " Podium font color " : choose the color of the font on your podium.

Save at the bottom of the page by clicking on " Validate " and go to " Wall " to look at the results. Do not forget to refresh your page " Wall " to see the results. 

 Remarks

• You can reset the settings by clicking on the red button " Reset " at the bottom of the page. 
• If you don't see any changes even though you correctly changed the settings, validate another time at the bottom of the page and refresh the page on which the Event Wall is opened.

Pieces of advice

• We recommend yo to set up the Event Wall before the event and make the last changes the day of your event.
• Contact the Eventdrive support if you have any difficulties. Read the article How to contact the Eventdrive support?