How to Embed a Social Wall in Your Event App

Table of Contents:

• Create and prepare your Walls.io social wall

• Copy your wall URL
  
• Add a Social wall to your Event App
• Add a Social wall to your Event App > Live Display

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1. Sign up at Walls.io & set up your social wall

To get started, sign up for a Walls.io trial. Setting up your social wall is fairly easy - connect your social media accounts and start adding sources – i.e. hashtags around your brand and products, or your owned social media accounts. For further information, check out our tutorial or watch the video below!

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2. Copy the link to your Walls.io social wall

In your Walls.io account, click on the eye 👁️ icon to view your wall and copy the link to your wall (e.g. https://my.walls.io/starbucks):

 

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3. Embed your Walls.io social wall on your Event

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Select "Link".

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Once you click on "Link", a configuration modal will open. Here, you set the Section Name, add your wall's URL from step 2, and add the section:

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Adding your social wall to the Live Display

Go to the Event App, click "Onsite Tools", expand the section, and navigate to "Live Display".

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On the same page,  scroll down until you see the "Screens" section. Navigate to the "Social" screen and click "Edit": 

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After the configuration modal pops up, this now allows you to set the Screen Name and add your social wall's URL from step 2. Make sure "Hide Screen?" is unchecked and click "Save":

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Voilà – your social wall is successfully embedded on your Event App !

Once you have added your social wall, you can "Preview" the event website at the top and check out how it looks. You can choose between your Event App and Live Display, depending on where you embedded your social wall:

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Here's your social wall in the Event App:

And here it is on the Live Display: