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Widgets: how to build your page from tiles

Widgets are the tiles below the header of your page – mixes, videos, text, links, dates and more. Here is how to add them, fill them in, arrange them and remove them again.

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Below the header of every profile, venue, crew, event series and event page there are widgets: tiles with content such as a mix, a video, a text, your links or your upcoming dates. You decide their order and width. Widgets can be edited by the page’s owner and by its admins and moderators.

Open management mode

  1. Open your page and tap “Edit” in the bar at the top. The bar now shows “Management mode”.
  2. If the page has no widgets yet, you see “No widgets yet”. Tap “Add widget” – or “Start from a template”, and EDM Hub sets out a few matching empty tiles for your type of page.
  3. Between the tiles and at the end there are “Widget” buttons. Tapping one (“Add a widget here”) inserts the new tile exactly at that spot.

Choosing a widget: search, or filter with the groups on the left.

Choose a widget

The “Add a widget” window lists every widget that fits your page. Type into “Search widgets, e.g. video” or pick a group on the left: “All”, “Media”, “Content”, “Dates”, “Community” or “Place”. Some widgets exist only once per page; if a tile says “Already on this page”, it is there already. With “Paste a link” you simply paste a link – EDM Hub works out by itself whether it becomes audio, video or a social post.

The widget window

Once you have chosen, the widget’s window opens. It has three areas:

  • “General” – language and heading of this widget. The tabs show the languages you write in; a new widget starts with the app’s language and English (with the app in English, with English only). Use “Add language” or “Manage languages” to add another one or remove one. The “Heading (English)” field – the brackets name the language of the open tab – is optional (“Leave empty for no heading”) and holds up to 200 characters.
  • “Content” – the fields of that widget, for example the link, the text or the images.
  • “Preview” – “How the tile looks on the page”. “Show the preview at full size” enlarges it. For some widgets you also set here how much is “Visible without scrolling”.

On narrow screens “Content” and “Preview” are tabs side by side. At the bottom left a line tells you what is still missing. Finish with “Insert” (new widget) or “Apply” (changed widget), or drop it with “Cancel”. If you have already typed something, EDM Hub asks first: “Keep editing” or “Discard”.

General, Content and Preview – every widget window is built this way.

Text in several languages

Whatever you write in a language tab applies to that language. A tick on the tab means complete, a warning sign means something is still missing there. Visitors see the widget in their language; if it is missing, EDM Hub shows English or the language you wrote in and marks it, for example with “In German”. The note “An English text makes your page more visible.” reminds you to fill in English as well.

Arrange, resize, delete

In management mode every tile has a bar at the top:

  • Drag the grip (“Move …”) to the new spot. Tapping it opens “Move up” and “Move down”.
  • Choose the width with “Third”, “Half” or “Full”.
  • The pencil (“Edit …”) opens the widget window again.
  • The bin (“Delete …”) asks “Delete this widget?” – with “Confirm” it is gone.

The bar of every tile in management mode.

Don’t forget to save

Every change to the widgets is only staged at first. Only “Save” in the bar at the top makes it live for everyone. “Discard” brings back the last saved state, “Leave” ends management mode – with unsaved changes EDM Hub asks first.

Help right in the window

Next to the title of every widget window there is a question mark (“Help – opens in a new tab”). It opens the help article for exactly this widget, and what you have typed stays where it is.

All widgets at a glance