Hello Heather, Christine, Melissa, and everyone else on this thread!
Thank you for raising this issue with us again. We understand your frustration and appreciate your patience so far. We know that the agenda is huge part of your event website and have been working diligently for the past several months to design an agenda experience that will exceed your expectations. We are unfortunately experiencing some issues in the development process that have pushed back our timeline for the feature release to Q1 of 2022. I know this is disappointing news for all of you but please know that this is a high priority for us and we're doing everything we can to get the newly designed agenda released as soon as possible.
In the mean time, you can leverage the Code Widget to build custom agenda's like Frank recommended. It's not an ideal solution since it will require a little more effort, but it can be used as a short-term solution. We have a session this year at Cvent Connect on Wednesday at 11:45AM PT that will go through an example of this. The session will also be made available on-demand shortly after and we can make the session document that provides a step-by-step guide available in the Community as well.
We apologize for the inconvenience and frustration this delay has caused and truly appreciate your patience as we work to get this released as quickly as possible. Please feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions or to get a sneak peak into what we have in store for the new agenda!
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Farah van Caloen
Senior Manager, Product Marketing
Cvent
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-30-2021 08:09
From: Melissa Williford
Subject: Agenda Page Layout
This is probably one of my main frustrations with the Flex registration setup. Most of our meetings consist of 3+ concurrent breakout panels throughout the entire meeting (sometimes up to 7 concurrent panels each day). Not having a way to easily layout the agenda in a way that makes more sense to our customer has been frustrating. I think that if the session tracks feature were enabled it might help 'some' in our case, but would still have the layout/formatting issues we currently experience.
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Melissa Williford
Technology Services Project Manager
ORAU
Original Message:
Sent: 07-29-2021 18:16
From: Christine Rocco
Subject: Agenda Page Layout
I agree - it is very frustrating that we have so much less agenda functionality in Flex than we did in Classic. For large events with multiple sessions - both the Agenda layout and the Session Registration pages leave alot to be desired. Not a great customer experience for our attendees or the planners!
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Christine Rocco
Director, Events
Cengage Learning , Inc
Original Message:
Sent: 07-29-2021 13:52
From: Heather Payne
Subject: Agenda Page Layout
Rob, while I appreciate the update and the tumultuous year we've all had - the agenda page updates need to be prioritized in Flex. As it currently exists, it is not useable and is a huge step back from what we had in classic. This is client facing information and affects our brand. It took 5 years previously to get agenda changes done. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement.
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Heather Payne
Director, Conference & Event Marketing
RBC Dominion Securities, Inc.
Original Message:
Sent: 03-24-2021 13:15
From: Jeremy Houser
Subject: Agenda Page Layout
Thank you for your update on this project, Rob. It is good to know where this fits into the re-prioritized timeline and that it is still on the future roadmap.
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Jeremy Houser
Program Coordinator
Duke University
Original Message:
Sent: 03-24-2021 12:41
From: Rob Miller
Subject: Agenda Page Layout
Hi all,
Thank you for your feedback! We understand how important the agenda functionality is within your event and can assure you we are continuing to make improvements. If you haven't already, be sure to share these as ideas here in the Community for my team and I to review in further detail and learn additional use cases.
The updated Web Agenda remains a valuable improvement for our teams to provide to our users. As expected, the past year has required us to revisit and reassess much of the feature work we had originally planned on our roadmap and determine where certain projects would sit in terms of priority. With that, the Web Agenda project has not yet started development and our current delivery timeline is projected for some time within Q3 2021.
Thanks again, and please let me know any questions.
Rob
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Rob Miller
Principal Product Manager, Cvent
Original Message:
Sent: 03-23-2021 09:58
From: Elli Holm
Subject: Agenda Page Layout
Hi,
1 year ago we listed all additional agenda features we needed when starting using Cvent event management platform. We had a call with the product manager who said that all this was on the roadmap and should be launched in Q2 2020. We have sent quite a few reminders during this time and according to the last update, the new agenda features would be released in Q1 2021.
Could we have an update on this, as there seem to be more clients than us asking for a more flexible and useful agenda? For example, if the agenda could have the same look/design/features on the event page as in the registration process/path, that would be an enhancement with 100%.
Thanks!
// Elli
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Elli Holm
Technical product manager
Bonnier News AB
Original Message:
Sent: 03-23-2021 09:04
From: Jeremy Houser
Subject: Agenda Page Layout
Yes, great point Christopher. I agree with both of you that the context for the session needs to be prioritized over the display of the speakers. The associated speaker content is the 'cherry on the top'.
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Jeremy Houser
Program Coordinator
Duke University
Original Message:
Sent: 03-23-2021 08:48
From: Frank Accosta
Subject: Agenda Page Layout
I concur! This is so important. In building our event, working with the event builder team, we had to create a custom agenda to get this issue fixed. The build team did a great job - kudos - but unfortunately, as we update the agenda with new speakers, we have to ask the build team to update the HTML code. It would be so much easier and efficient to simply enter everything into the event management module.
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Frank Accosta
Founder - Poplar Events
City Parks Alliance
Original Message:
Sent: 03-22-2021 16:01
From: Christopher Perkins
Subject: Agenda Page Layout
Can we set up the Agenda to list the description above the Speakers? Or at least change how the speakers display so it doesn't take up so much room per session? I want to show the speakers, but the description is the most important element per session on the Agenda page.
#Flex-Creating/ManagingEvents
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Christopher Perkins
Project Analyst
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
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