Configuration

The configuration of the add-on could be done from the Plone controlpanel ‘Site Setup’. You already used this panel during the installation of the add-on. There are entries for different configuration tasks.

Collective Conferences Settings

Once you finished the modification of navigation settings you could scroll down a bit on the Site Settings page to the section for ‘Add-on Configuration’. There you find a new entry for this add-on with the title ‘Collective Conference Settings’. Click on this entry and you get a form with fields to configure the add-on.

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The fields on the first register ‘Default’ collect the values for the length of conference breaks, talks, trainings and workshops. This fields comes already with some default value. You could replace this values with your own choice. Every single value needs a new line.

The entries of the fields for talk, training and workshop length will be used to configure the available options for the talk, training and workshop proposal submitters to suggest a time slot. The values of the fields are also used by the conference organization committee to set the length of talks, trainings, workshops and conference breaks in the conference program and its tracks.

There are also fields to set the level and the audience of trainings at the conference. This fields hold already some default values. You could replace them with your own choice / definitions, one value per line.

The second register ‘Legal’ currently holds only one field to list the licenses, talks, trainings and workshops could be submitted under. This field came with some default values too. The default values could be replaced by new entries. Every value needs a new line.

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The third register ‘’File Extensions’ need your input about the allowed file extensions for images (e.g. pictures), for talk, training and workshop slides, for additional talk, training and workshop material and conference videos. If there are different file extensions allowed for this file categories you could enter this file extensions seperated by a pipe into the form fields, e.g.: ‘odp|pdf’ for slides.

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The fourth register is used to configure a potential conference fee. The default value is ‘no’ conference fee. If the conference visitors had to pay a fee the payment options could be set in the appropriate field on this register. Every payment option needs to be written in a separate line.

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Once you finished the configuration within the fields of all three register save your changes. This will write some new entries to the ‘Configuration Registry’ of the Plone site. This new Configuration Registry entries will be used for the dynamic content of the edit forms of talks, trainings and workshops.