EventAZoo | Help and Frequently Asked Questions


Help and FAQs: Using the Website


How do I create an event on EventAZoo?

When you register for your account, an event is already created for you. You can then go ahead and modify this event and add more sub events to it.
By default the event created automatically is disabled and it needs to be enabled before people will be able to view the website.

What are sub events on EventAZoo?

An event website hosted on EventAZoo can have multiple sub event pages.
These sub events can be almost anything – contests, seminars, workshops, presentations, games, etc. Each sub event gets its own dedicated page on EventAZoo which you can populate with information about that particular sub event.

Also, you can turn on each sub event for registration (or not) and participants can choose which sub events they want to register from – from the registration pages.

Are there any limits to the number of sub event pages I can create?

No. As of now, you can create as many sub event pages as you would like.

What does the team member option do in the sub event page?

The team member option deals with sub events for which you would like to take registrations.
Some events require one or more team members to register for it together.

Using the team member option, you could specify whether the particular event requires teams to register (rather than an individual) and how many.

You could also choose whether it is mandatory for a specific number of people need to register to be eligible to take part in an event.

(For e.g. for an event like a paper presentation contest, you could have a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 3 people registering. But for a dumb charades contest, it would be mandatory for exactly 3 people to register – no more no less)

What are forms?

The forms functionality lets you customize the questions a participant needs to fill to register and be eligible to take part in a particular event.
When you first create your event account, we create a dummy form for you which you can go and later customize to suit your needs.

There are three compulsory questions that every participant needs to fill and these are their name, email address and a contact number.

Can I change the questions of the form once my website is live?

This depends if people have registered for your event already.
As long as no one has already registered for your event, you can go ahead and modify your form.

However, once people have registered, this functionality is disabled.
You will need to delete all the registrant information to be able to edit the form.
This is done to maintain the data consistency and integrity of the form questions.
(We cannot have part of the users answering some questions and the other part answering some other questions)

People have already registered for my event and I need to change my form questions now! What do I do?

In this case, you could download and save all the registration information so far in the CSV format by clicking on the “Registrations” tab and then later on the “Download as CSV”. All the registrations so far, will be saved in a CSV file (which can be opened via a spreadsheet program).

Once you are certain that all the data has been successfully backed up, you can go ahead and delete all previous registrant information and modify your form.

You will however have to manually add these registrations back to the old form to synchronize all the registrant data in one place.

Why do we have the option to choose which events belong to a particular form?

In EventAZoo, each event actually belongs to a particular form. This gives more power to the event organiser as they can enable one particular form to take registrations for some specific events.

Consider the scenario in which a college event needs to take registrations for students and faculty for a particular event. The students will be attending Sub Event A while the faculty will be attending Sub Event B.

In this scenario, the organiser can create two forms – one for students and one for faculty and then make Form 1 take registrations for Event A and Form 2 for Event B.

In this way, the organiser will be able to cleanly segregate the registrant data and avoid clutter and chaos.

Can I add or remove sub events from a form mid event without deleting all the registrant data?

Yes. You can add and remove sub events from a particular form even after people have registered without deleting the existing data.

What options are available to me while customising the look and feel of the final site?

You can customize the following options while modifying the look and feel of your final site:

  1. The theme your site uses from a list of ever growing themes.
  2. A banner image for your event (which will replace the default theme banner image)
  3. The welcome SMS notification which goes out whenever someone registers for your event.
  4. The welcome email which goes out whenever someone registers for your event.
What does the “Sponsors” tab do?

Most of the events organised have been sponsored by various parties. This section allows you to add details about the people sponsoring the event.
This information can also be customized to display ONLY on the sub event pages that the sponsor is sponsoring or on the main landing page of the website.

You can add the following information about the sponsor:

  1. The name of the sponsor.
  2. The type of sponsor (Gold, silver, etc)
  3. The logo of the sponsor.
  4. Website address (if any) of the sponsor.
A part of the page (prizes, sponsors, address, etc.) is not relevant to my event or sub event. What do I do?

Nothing. If any section of the page is not relevant to your event, just leave it blank.
EventAZoo is smart enough to render and display only the sections that have data filled in.

Can I update the website with real time news updates?

Yes. EventAZoo has a news module which is available in the “News / Results” tab of the admin website. You can go ahead and create a new article with a title and the message and once saved, this is immediately displayed on the final website under the “News” page.

How can I add results from the contests in my event to the website?

In the same manner that you add news articles, you can add results for the various contests happening at your event.

EventAZoo has a results module which is available in the “News / Results” tab of the admin website. You can go ahead and create a new results article with a title and the message and once saved, this is immediately displayed on the final website under the “Results” page.

What is the gallery feature all about?

The gallery module is the place where you can put up your pictures and other images related to the event. Once up, you can choose the relative ordering of the images and whether you want to display the images on the main page or only in the gallery page.
You also have the option of adding a caption to your images.

You can also upload your images here and add them to the description of your event.

I need to insert an image in the description of my sub event. How do I do that?

Please check out the "How To" video tutorials from the Help / FAQ section here.

What is the files section and what are the files we can upload?

A lot of times, events require files to be forwarded to the attendees. These could be a high resolution poster of the event, a pdf brochure of the entire event, a map to a robot race or even a case study for a particular contest.
You can upload all these files to EventAZoo and link them to a particular event. EventAZoo takes care of all your file space and bandwidth needs and your participants can download and view the files easily.
You can upload any file that you want provided it is lesser than 2 MB in space.

What does the links section do?

Many event organisers want to add additional links to the left hand navigation menu. These could be links to organiser’s website, blog or to the main sponsor’s website. Anything.
Adding links puts up these links on the left hand navigation menu in the main site and will be visible throughout the website.

How do I turn my event website on or off?

You can immediately toggle the status of your event website by clicking on the “My Events” tab and then pushing the button “Turn Website On / Off” under the “Actions” section on the right hand side of the page.
Turning the website off disables the event website to all the participants and they will be shown a “Page Not Found” message. Registrations are also stopped when the website goes offline.

Can I selectively turn registrations off for particular sub events?

Yes you can. Each sub event has its own registration flag which you can turn off.
You can do this by clicking on the “Sub Events” tab and checking the respective sub events. After this, you select the appropriate action from the Actions drop down on the top of the page and click on the “Go” Button.

However, if all registrations are disabled for the website from the “My Event” tab, the sub event settings are over ridden.

Why would I need more than one form to take registrations?

Having multiple forms allows you to take registrations for multiple groups of participants attending your event.
For example, you could have one form for student participants and one form for corporate participants attending your event with different sets of questions in each.