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  • 1.  Options for auditing and formatting speaker inputs

    Posted 03-02-2026 19:19

    I am new to using the Speaker Resource Center and, after having sold my organization on it as a great solution, am running into lots of limitations.  Am I overlooking ways to do the following?

    • Auditing speaker profiles for completion. I want to send a Single Task Reminder to those who haven't completed it, but don't want to annoy the people who have actually completed the task by sending them emails.  I can't be nagging senior professionals to go in and check boxes on the Task List, either.  Is there a setting to make the system mark tasks as complete automatically?  
    • Formatting speaker inputs.  Most speakers are authors, so their book titles need to be italicized -- but is this just not supported?  

    Thank you!


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    Linda Slothouber
    Vice President
    JASNAUnited States
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  • 2.  RE: Options for auditing and formatting speaker inputs

    Posted 03-17-2026 13:53

    Hi Linda,

    Thank you again for partnering with us on Speaker Resource Center. I wanted to follow up with a quick summary of what is and isn't possible today around task reminders and formatting.

    Task completion and reminders

    • When you send a Single Task Reminder (or a reminder from the task progress page), the system will only email speakers who are assigned that task and have not yet marked it complete. Speakers who have already completed the task will not receive that reminder.

    • There is no setting to automatically mark a task complete based on profile fields or uploads. Speakers either:

      • log in and mark the task complete themselves, or

      • you can mark the task complete for them from the planner side after you've entered their information.

    Together, this means you can safely use Single Task Reminders without "nagging" speakers who are already done, and you can manually complete tasks on behalf of senior/VIP speakers so they don't need to log in just to check a box.

    Formatting (book titles, italics, etc.)

    • Speaker‑editable fields in SRC (like bio, title, company) are plain text only. Speakers cannot apply italics or other rich‑text formatting to specific words within those fields.

    • If you need book titles or other elements to appear italicized in attendee‑facing materials, that formatting can be applied in:

      • your event website or Attendee Hub content widgets, or

      • any custom content blocks/pages you build as the planner.

    We would be happy to submit some of this feedback to our product team on your behalf, however, I hope this helps.

    Thanks!

    Julianna 



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    Julianna Hampshire
    Lead Customer Success Advisor
    SalesforceGenericAccountUnited States
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  • 3.  RE: Options for auditing and formatting speaker inputs

    Posted 03-17-2026 14:30
    Hello Julianna,

    Thank you for your reply.  Yes, please forward to project engineers so that these important features can be included in the future.  Additionally, Reports should show speaker emails, just as Reports are available for other types of email.

    Could you please point me to where/how I can apply text styling on the website to bios and session descriptions?  I have a test page where I have been trying to do that and it is not apparent.

    Thank you,
    Linda



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  • 4.  RE: Options for auditing and formatting speaker inputs
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    Posted 03-18-2026 10:26
    Hi Linda,

    Thank you for this follow up - these are very helpful points.
    I've documented your feedback and passed it to our product team, including:
    • The need for auto-completion/profile-completion style logic for tasks.
    • The desire for SRC reports that show speaker emails, similar to how other email activity is surfaced. Today there isn't a dedicated report that exposes individual SRC speaker emails in that way, so this is not something you're overlooking; I've added it as a formal enhancement request for the team to review alongside the other items we discussed.
    On your question about styling bios and session descriptions on the website:
    • The dynamic speaker and session widgets on the event website (which pull directly from the Speaker and Session records) inherit your site's global fonts and styles, but they don't allow per-word formatting like making individual book titles italic within those fields. That's why you're not seeing an option on your test page to italicize just part of a bio or description.
    • To apply specific text styling (like italics) on the website, you'll want to use a regular Text content widget in the Site Designer:
      1. Go to Website & Registration > Website > Event Website and open the Site Designer.
      2. Open your test page.
      3. Add or edit a Text widget.
      4. Type or paste the copy you want, then use the formatting toolbar (including the I button) to italicize book titles or other phrases.
    A common pattern here is:
    • Keep the standard Speakers/Sessions widget for the structured data (photo, name, title, base bio), and
    • Add a Text widget on the same page with a short, styled blurb where you can italicize book titles and fine-tune the presentation.
    Hope this helps!

    Best,
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    Lead Customer Success Advisor, Event Solutions  | www.cvent.com
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