Set Custom Terms to Match Your Event
Go to your Event Bucket settings and click “Launch Configurator”
In the General tab, replace any film-specific terminology with language that fits your event:
Term for "schedule" — swap it for agenda, or lineup, etc.
Term for "film guide" — swap it for speakers, artists, program, or performers, etc.
Term for "film" — swap it for speaker, artist, performer, or act, etc.
Term for "showing" — swap it for performance, talk, set, or session, etc.
These changes ripple through your entire native site automatically — navigation links, buttons, and URLs all update to reflect your chosen terms. Your audience will never see the word "film" unless you want them to. Look for the following terms in the screenshots that follow. They have been circled in green to highlight their presence throughout the Eventive native site.
On the Welcome page, Schedule and Film Guide, the custom terms for schedule and film guide will appear as navigation buttons at the top of the screen. If you are selling passes or memberships, the custom term for pass and custom term for membership will appear alongside the schedule and film guide buttons on the Welcome page.
Use Film Records to Showcase Your Speakers or Performances
For each speaker, performer, band, or act in your program, create a Film Record. You'll find these in the Films section of your Eventive dashboard — "Film Records" is the internal term for the section of the dashboard where film, speaker, artist, performer, or act-specific data is collected, and does not appear anywhere on your Eventive native site.
Film Records give you a dedicated page for each person or act, linked directly to the events they appear in. The fields most useful for non-film programs are:
Title — the speaker's name, act name, or performance title
Description — a rich text field that supports images, links, and formatting; use it for a full bio, program notes, or anything else you want to share
Short Description — a brief logline that appears in the guide and on the schedule
Language
Country
Genre — useful for categorizing acts or topics
Content Warning
Sponsor
Awards
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram links — link directly to your speakers' or performers' social media profiles
Any fields you leave blank simply won't appear on the page, so don't worry about fields that don't apply.
On the film record, the custom term for schedule and custom term for screening will appear. The custom term for schedule appears as a back button in the top left corner of the page, and the custom term for showing appears to the upper right corner of the description and can be clicked to select a specific event featuring that speaker, presenter, artist or performer.
Connect Film Records to Physical Events
Once you've created your “Film” Records, attach them to events on your schedule exactly as you would attach a film to a showing. Each event page will then pull in the Film Record's information automatically — your audience can click through from the schedule to read the full bio or program notes for any speaker or act.
On the event page, the custom term for schedule appears in the top left corner of the page as a back button.
If your event has multiple speakers or performers, attach multiple film records to an event, the same way you would assemble a shorts package. When attaching multiple film records to an event, you may choose to add a custom cover image (ie. an image that either represents the nature of the event or incorporates all event participants). Without a custom cover image, the cover image for the first performer listed would be used.
A Few More Tips
Tags are a great way to organize your guide — use them to group speakers by topic, performers by genre, or events by venue or day.
The Film Guide Tab in the Configurator lets you customize the layout and display of your guide page, including grouping entries into sections by tag.
The Description field on each Film Record supports full HTML if you need to embed a video or a preview clip for a performer.