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Live Event Widget

A Live Event widget allows you to list Live Events on a channel (or anywhere else you can add sidebar widgets such as a channel tab or a video page).

This widget is different to the Live Event widget shown on the home page. The home page widget is controlled differently from this one. For more information on configuring that widget, take a look at the guides on controlling the Home page and controlling the Events page.

Live Event Widget Example

Displaying Events

If you want a Live Event Registration to appear in a Live Event Widget, it needs to have a video attached.

Configuring your widget

Before you can set up this type of widget you need to complete the instructions in the Sidebar guide and select the Element Type as Content Listing.

Once you've done that you'll get a few fields which need to be completed.

Live Event widget fields

For the dropdown labelled View you need to select Sidebar Content.

The next field to configure is also a dropdown labelled Display you have to select Live Events.

After this you need to expand the section labelled Advanced Options to reveal two more fields. Only the Arguments field is required to make the widget work, the Items to display field is optional.

For the Arguments field in this widget type, it's best to add Live Events/[channel node id]. This will show you any Live Events associated with this channel.

Where to get the channel node id

For more information on configuring the Advanced Options use this guide.

Info

When it comes to displaying Live Events in the widget, there are three options:

  • list the live events belonging to the current channel.
  • list the live events belonging to a different channel.
  • list all the live events on the platform.