How to Make Your Virtual Village Public for Attendees to Participate

When Your Event is Unpublished

If you want to hide your Virtual Village page to the public while it's still being worked on, you can leave it unpublished by simply leaving the "Publish Event" toggle off (grey) in the righthand editing sidebar on your main event page. Instead, leave it like this:

You and your exhibitors can still access the event and keep making it amazing, you'll just see this warning at the top of the page:

All Organizers and Exhibitors with approved orders still have access, anyone else who tries to access the event will see the following: 

Don't forget to publish it for showtime! Read on for how to do that... 

Publish Your Virtual Village

When you are ready to make your virtual expo/village public, go ahead and click on the Publish Event toggle! Green means it is enabled. (Make sure you're in Edit Mode.) 

Then, click on Attendee View at the top. The link displayed on your browser's URL field is what you should share with your attendees to access your virtual event. Now remember, changing the URL Slug in the editing sidebar will make the previous URL expire (meaning invalid, it won't work anymore) so be sure to decide on and save your customized URL Slug before you share the public link. Each exhibitor booth has their own URL.