Buckets are a central element in your ONevents platform, allowing you to store and organize data in a structured way. You can view them as elements that can then be used stages can be embedded or placed. In this article, you will learn how to create a new bucket and which options are available in the menus. Navigate in the administration to BucketsThere you will find the Bucket overview:
Here you can manage all your existing buckets, edit them, load them from a template, or create new ones from scratch.
Create new bucket #
To create a new bucket, click “Create new bucket”. The configuration page then opens, offering various menu items.
Generally #
Here you define the basic information for your bucket.
placeholder – Automatically generated value to identify the bucket.
Name – The name of the bucket (required field).
Session Bucket – Determines whether the bucket should be bound to a session (“Yes” or “No”).
Entries have files – Enables the possibility for data entries to also contain files.
Template #
Here you can define an HTML template for displaying the bucket.
Template – Default template for displaying the data.
Template (alternative) – Possibility to store an alternative HTML template.
Template (Iframe) – If content should be embedded via an iframe.
Templates #
Templates control how the contents are displayed in the bucket.
Template: Detail – Defines the detailed view of an entry.
Template: Pre-Event – Template for the period before an event.
Template: Post-Event – Template for the period after an event.
Settings #
Under Settings you can define various parameters for the organization and structure of the bucket.
Sorting attribute – Specifies the attribute by which the content is sorted.
Sorting direction – Choose “ascending” or “descending”
Title attribute – Determines which attribute is displayed as the title.
Number of relationships – Defines how many links to other buckets are possible.
Can be created by the user – Users can create new entries in the bucket.
User editable – Users can edit existing entries.
Show completion – Turns on a completion indicator for the bucket.
Make visible after user input – Defines whether content becomes visible after user input.
UI (user interface) #
Here you can customize how the bucket is displayed in the user interface.
At the beginning of the page there is a selection of who the user interface should be adapted for.
Add row (1/12, 2/12, etc.) – Ability to add elements to the UI.
Copy from moderator role – If an existing UI structure is to be adopted by moderators.
Save view – Saves the current user interface.
Bucket attributes #
Bucket attributes are the basic building blocks for the structure of entries within a bucket. They define which information can or must be recorded per entry – similar to fields in a form or columns in a table.
Bucket Item Selection #
When creating or editing a bucket attribute, the type “Bucket Item Selection” A target bucket is then selected, the entries of which will later appear in the new selection field.
When you create a new bucket entry, a dropdown appears with the items of the target bucket.
Example:
- You would like to specify the corresponding speaker for a program item.
- The speaker is already stored in a separate bucket.
- With “Bucket Item Selection” you can now select this speaker directly instead of having to create it again.
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