Access to Full-Screen ePoster Viewing in Kiosk Mode

To enhance the ePoster gallery experience within cAttendee for on-site touch screen stations, follow these simple steps to optimize functionality:

To enhance the ePoster gallery experience within cAttendee for on-site touch screen stations, follow these simple steps to optimize functionality:

1. Visit the desired website page within Google Chrome.
2. Access the Google Chrome menu by clicking on the three vertical dots.
3. Hover over “Save and share” and select “Create shortcut…” then give the shortcut a name.

4. Locate the newly created shortcut behind the browser window.

5. Double-click on the shortcut and then press F11 on the keyboard to transition into cAttendee’s full-screen mode. Press F11 again to exit full-screen mode.

Time Calculation Session Roles

Administrators can determine whether an activity should be incorporated into the session role’s start and end time auto-recalculation.

Checking flags includes the activity and session role status in the presenter time calculations in Session details.

Leaving flags unchecked means the session role times will be “display only” – allowing you to set times for those session roles manually (e.g., Chair, Moderator) that will not affect the calculated presentation times.

To view Time Calculations, go to Settings > Sessions > Hover over a Session type and click the details arrow.


Convert ePoster Audio Media Files

Suppose an ePoster file is not playing audio on cAttendee. In that case, you need to convert the ePoster file with no audio to an mp4 by going to the presentations tab on cAdmin, searching for the specific control number, downloading the file, converting it to an mp4, and replacing the old file. Please see the outline below:

1. On the attendee page, go to the specific poster and copy the control number at the end of the URL:

2. Go to the admin backend, navigate to “Presentations,” and search for the specific control number:

3. Go to the file, you will see the information regarding the uploaded file

4. Download the existing file via the download option, convert it to MP4 on your device

5. Replace the existing file with the new mp4 using the replace icon. Choose the file and upload it

6. It will upload, and you will be able to see it on the platform:

7. Once uploaded, you can play the audio on the platform:


Terms support for Forgot Password and Login buttons

Some associations may have preferred terms for their login process to remain consistent with their own UI/UX patterns. Released this week, an admin can now change both the login and password wordings for user logins to cAttendee.

Some associations may have preferred terms for their login process to remain consistent with their own UI/UX patterns. Released this week, an admin can now change both the login and password wordings for user logins to cAttendee.

For a custom Login example:
1. Go to Settings > Blocks and terms
2. Search Term Name for “login”
3. Click into “Meeting Override” and type in custom term


Change the “Forgot Password” term in the same way. For example,
1. Go to Settings > Blocks and terms
2. Search Term Name for “password”
3. Click into “Meeting Override” and type in the custom term


Onsite Presentation Management Application: Hardware, Software & Network Requirements

CTI’s Presentation Management application is a scalable, cloud-based SaaS application allowing presenters to upload presentation files via the internet, make final updates and practice in an on-site speaker ready room, and then present from a local computer in a session room. In venues with stable, high bandwidth internet connections the onsite presentation management installation will only require hardware for session room computers and speaker ready room computers. In venues with unstable or insufficient bandwidth internet connections, an on-site caching server is available.

CTI’s Presentation Management application is a scalable, cloud-based SaaS application allowing presenters to upload presentation files via the internet, make final updates and practice in an on-site speaker ready room, and then present from a local computer in a session room.  In venues with stable, high bandwidth internet connections the onsite presentation management installation will only require hardware for session room computers and speaker ready room computers.  In venues with unstable or insufficient bandwidth internet connections, an on-site caching server is available.

The Presentation Management application supports streaming to overflow rooms and streaming to 3rd party content distribution platforms.

The Presentation Management application supports recording of streams to allow content to be edited and re-purposed.  Editing tools are available in the application and 3rd party video editing tools may be used as well.

Please refer to the application Knowledge Base for current Presentation Management documentation, network estimation tools, set-up guides and related API documentation.

Session Organizer

Administrators can view and edit a presentation to roles other than the presenter. Like a presenter, permitted roles can access the presentation through the Portal to check for quality control. Another level of edit permission enables them to make changes to the presentation as well.

Administrators can view and edit a presentation to roles other than the presenter. Like a presenter, permitted roles can access the presentation through the Portal to check for quality control. Another level of edit permission enables them to make changes to the presentation as well.  This functionality has been commonly requested by on-site presentation management customers and is beginning to be requested by customers organizing hybrid and virtual meetings as a tactic to reduce the cost of external A/V labor.

Media Content Embargo functionality within a Session & Presentation independent of Abstract Embargo

Embargo of abstract content has been a feature of cOASIS for almost 20 years. It is used to block the display of sensitive material until a designated time. Sensitive material could be the results of research that would affect the stock price of a pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturer. With Virtual meetings, the cOASIS embargo functionality was expanded to include the capability to link the release of media content (videos, PDF files, etc.) on cAttendee to the date and time-release of the abstract content.

Embargo of abstract content has been a feature of cOASIS for almost 20 years. It is used to block the display of sensitive material until a designated time. Sensitive material could be the results of research that would affect the stock price of a pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturer. With Virtual meetings, the cOASIS embargo functionality was expanded to include the capability to link the release of media content (videos, PDF files, etc.) on cAttendee to the date and time-release of the abstract content.

While medical societies have long been the primary users of the abstract embargo, content embargo independent of the abstract embargo has appealed to a broader set of non-medical customers. In these use cases, the abstract may be released from embargo earlier – or not be embargoed at all – while the media content on the virtual meeting application is embargoed until a specific time. For example, an association may want to release its abstracts earlier than the session or presentation content to give attendees a session or presentation preview. To meet this need and provide simplicity in setting up what we’ve seen as common embargo workflows, we’ve added the following new functionality to Sessions and Presentations.

Embargo options in Session details

Embargo options are always in the meeting time zone set in Settings > Meeting Info & Setup. The Settings options are as follows:

Content embargo. This ties release of session media items to:
– None (No Embargo)
– The latest time of the embargo of any presentation within the session (this is the default and allows the existing function linking the abstract embargo to the media content embargo to continue without the need to make an update if session times change),
– The start time of the session, or
– An offset of the session start time. Options include the five minutes, fifteen minutes, and sixty minutes before the session begins.
– Other/Manual entry.  If the session’s start time or the standard intervals don’t match the needs of a specific meeting, we’ve also offered the ability to enter a specific date/time in the embargo until field.  For smaller meetings, a specific date/time can be entered directly on the card for larger meetings. The dev support team can import these dates and times.

– Content Embargo settings and embargo Until values are displayed on the session dashboard.
– PLEASE NOTE – SESSION MEDIA IS INDEPENDENT OF PRESENTATION MEDIA IN cOASIS.  THIS MEANS THAT SETTING ONLY A SESSION EMBARGO WOULD EMBARGO SHOWCASES FROM PLAYING ON A SESSION PAGE BUT WOULD STILL ALLOW INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS TO BE VIEWED ON A PRESENTATION DETAILS PAGE.  PLEASE CONSULT THE “HOW TO” GUIDE IN THE KNOWLEDGE BASE BEFORE USING THIS FUNCTION.
– Even if there is no embargo on the session content, there may still be embargos on individual presentations.


Embargo options in Presentation details

Embargo options are always in the meeting time zone set in Settings > Meeting Info & Setup. The Settings options are as follows:

Content embargo. This ties release of presentation media items to:
– None (No Content Embargo – even if the abstract content is embargoed)
– The embargo date and time set for the presentation’s abstract (this is the default and allows the existing function linking the abstract embargo to the media content embargo to continue without any updates if there is a scheduling change).
– The start time of the session
– An offset of the session start time. Options include the five minutes, fifteen minutes before the session is scheduled to begin.
– An offset of the presentation start time. Options include the five minutes, fifteen minutes before the presentation is scheduled to begin. 
– Other/Manual entry.  If the session or presentation start time or the standard intervals don’t match the needs of a specific meeting, we’ve also offered the ability to enter a specific date/time in the embargo until field.  For smaller meetings, a specific date/time can be entered directly on the card, while for larger meetings, the dev support team can import these dates and times.

– Content Embargo settings and embargo Until values are displayed on the presentation dashboard.