Along with scheduling information, attendee lists, and exhibitor information, the Personify Mobile application also allows your organization to link a floor map image with a specific conference that designates the conference room locations for each of the conference sessions. This means that while viewing session details, your users are given the option to view the exact conference room location for that session on an uploaded conference floor map, as shown below.
Linking the location of a session to a floor map is done through a separate file and requires an image of the floor map as a PNG file.
To link session locations to a floor map:
1. Open your floor map PNG image file in an image editor with ruler functionality.
2. Determine
the pixel location of the specific session room location as measured from
the top-left corner of the image.
For example, the coordinates for Room 305 (shown below) are “794,677” with
794as the X axis location and 677as the Y axis location.
3. Create a file based on the template below indicating the room number, floor map image name, and room coordinates of each session conference room you want mapped.
{
"Esplanade Ballroom 301": {
"image": "esplanade.lobby.png",
"coords": [
"794",
"982"
]
},
"Esplanade Ballroom 302": {
"image": "esplanade.lobby.png",
"coords": [
"438",
"982"
]
},
"Esplanade Ballroom 303": {
"image": "esplanade.lobby.png",
"coords": [
"794",
"848"
]
},
"Esplanade Ballroom 304": {
"image": "esplanade.lobby.png",
"coords": [
"438",
"827"
]
},
"Esplanade Ballroom 305": {
"image": "esplanade.lobby.png",
"coords": [
"794",
"677"
]
}
}
The room
name (highlighted in green in the example code) must match up with the
room name entered in your Personify back office.
4. Within the same file, repeat step 3 for all session room locations you want linked to a floor map.
You can enter
coordinates for more than one floor map image/conference in a single file.
5. Save and close the file.
6. Host the Conference Mapping file you just created to your web server.
Make
sure to review the conference floor maps extensively before going live
with the Personify Mobile application to ensure the correct coordinates
are entered.