Product Categories
Product Categories are used in the Exhibitor Profile and available in the Exhibitor Search. Exhibitors choose which product category or categories fit their product or service, then Attendees use this information to narrow their search.
Set Up
Add the Product Categories and Sub-Categories in Global Admin at Events > Exposition > Settings > Product Categories
Categories
Categories are ways to organize subcategories.
Sub-Categories
Exhibitors cannot choose categories, but only subcategories. If you have a list of categories without sub-categorizing them, make a single category name, such as "Categories", and add each item as its Subcategory.
Complete the one required field, Category (Text, 100 characters). Other fields do not impact public site display at this time, and can be omitted.
Complete the one required field, Category (Text, 100 characters). Other fields do not impact public site display at this time, and can be omitted.
Ensure the Display checkbox is checked.
Subcategories will be available to exhibitors to make their selections.
Choose the main Category from the dropdown
Complete the one required field, SubCategory (Text, 100 characters).
Subcategory Code can be populated with a short abbreviation of the subcategory
Subcategory Alias does not impact public site display at this time, and can be omitted.
Ensure the Display checkbox is checked.
Editing Categories
Categories and subcategories cannot be removed after they have been selected. If they are no longer needed, the Display checkbox should be unchecked.
Exhibitor Use
Exhibitors can then log in on the Public Side using the password provided to them in their Confirmation Letter, and select the Sub Categories that fit their product or service.
Attendee Use
Attendees can search based on product sub category in the Advanced Search section of Event Map, and Exhibitor List.
Reports
In Global Admin there are 2 reports that use the Product Category/Sub-Category; the Product Category Report, and the Exhibitor Guide Report.
Product Category Report let’s you pull a list of Product Category and Sub-Categories by Booth
Exhibitor Guide Report has a feature called Exhibitor List – Category where you can pull a Word document of all the Exhibitors indexed by Product Category and Sub-Category.