Plan & Promote News for 25 October 2023

Top News: Session Overview Insights and more

The product team has 2 big improvements they're working to deliver in this window that we know you’re going to love:

1. Event Insights: Session Overview -
   The Session Overview page is designed to get at-a-glance, easy-to-access insight into your session’s registration, attendance, and performance throughout the event workflows. Previously, you could only analyze the success of event sessions by continuously running various reports, as there is not enough data easily obtainable without significant effort. With the Session Overview page, you can now easily track and measure the performance of event sessions and the engagement and satisfaction of session attendees in each stage of the event lifecycle. The page is split into a few different sections highlighting different areas of session metrics, including:

   • The Session Enrollment section is built to help you track and analyze enrollment of the event sessions.

   • The Session Attendance section provides data to assist you in monitoring attendance for event sessions. It displays information on the average attendance across all sessions and for each individual session, categorized by attendance type - virtual or in-person. You can view the average attendance rate across all event sessions and the average number of sessions attended by each session registrant.

   • The Session Engagement feature enables you to understand the level of engagement your attendees have with the sessions, as well as assist them in pinpointing opportunities for enhancement.

   • The Speaker/Session Feedback sections have been designed to help you evaluate attendee satisfaction and gain valuable insights into session/speaker ratings and feedback response rates.

     You can filter the data from the Session Overview page or view corresponding event reports to find more granular data to meet your specific needs.

   
   

2. Session Description maximum character count increase -
   Upon release the Session Description field's maximum character count within Event will be updated to from 2,500 characters to 5,000. In Abstract Management the maximum character count value for Session Description is being decreased from 10,000 to 5,000 to bring the Session Description field in Event and Abstract Management into alignment with each other.

2 additional improvements to make your job easier

If you thought the above items are exciting, wait until you see what else the team plans to release in the next launch window:

• Additional Calendar apps supported in "My Agenda" Widget in Emails - Now session calendars can be added in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and Outlook Web. This will make it easier for attendees to add sessions to their preferred calendar application, and will help to increase session attendance.

• REST API POST endpoint for Create Transactions - The new Create Transactions API endpoint will allow developers to create an offline transaction on an attendee's record. This will ensure that transactions are marked as paid and eliminate any outstanding balance.

Other news that may interest you...

Date Change - Direct session sharing within the Agenda widget will now be released October 25th.

Date Change - Redirects for Classic Weblinks Post-Sunset will now be released October 25th.

Visit our Community with questions

Questions about anything we’ve rolled out in this window? As always, you can get product questions answered in the Cvent Community via the Open Forum. Also, attend our quarterly Product Update Live Q&A webinar where our product team is on the call to answer questions live!