Videosync differs from some other platforms in a sense that from attendee perspective, everything happens in the same base URL, such as https://demo.videosync.fi/introduction. This facilitates social media activities and invites - but on the other side of the coin, from admin perspective, it is important that different states of the event are understood and correctly used.

So, event states are used to control what the audience sees when they enter the event URL, for example https://demo.videosync.fi/introduction

Previewing event states

For a virtual event admin, it is important to have control - to know how things are going to look, before things happen. For this, before diving into the actual event states, a few words about how the admin can preview how the different states look.

<aside> 💡 To enter the preview mode, just click on the Preview link in the event edit top bar.

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Then, on the preview mode, select the state that you want to preview, from the navigation element in the bottom-left corner of the event site - and you will see what your audience would see if the event would be in the chosen state.

Working with event states

<aside> 💡 Event state is changed from the event edit top bar, Change event state menu. Note that you need to click Save before change takes effect.

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Working with an event, there is five different states to consider: