Module 7 · Publishing

Poster Viewer: poster browsing on screens and devices

The branded public poster gallery — the designed page delegates browse on a screen in the hall or a phone on the train, split out as its own module so the gallery is a choice, not a side effect.

Poster ViewerEvent managerDelegateThe public

What it is

A designed gallery of the published posters: searchable, filterable by track and category, grouped how you choose, with the poster file rendered inline and delegate questions one tap away. Presentation is template-driven — an organization library of gallery templates, one published instance per event with overrides, and event-scoped templates where a design belongs to a single meeting.

What it changes

The poster hall gets a digital twin that outlives the two hours it was physically up, and the gallery's window and audience are decisions you make here — separately from when authors may upload.

The hall entrance screen

A Beacon poster-session screen lists what is on which board; the QR on it opens this gallery on the delegate's phone.

The month after

Uploads close before the meeting; the gallery stays open for a month after it, public, as the society's shop window.

The branded gallery

One organization template carries the society's look; every event publishes it with its own header and dates.

What you can do

  • Build gallery templates in the organization library, scope one to a single event, and promote it when it earns reuse.
  • Publish one live instance per event, from a template plus overrides — branding, layout, featured posters, sponsor banners.
  • Open and close the gallery on its own window, and choose public or attendees-only access.
  • Show posters inline — PDF, image or slides — with the supplemental files alongside.
  • See view counts by day, by track, by category and by poster.

Settings

SettingWhat it controlsDefault
Viewer accessPublic to anyone with the link, or restricted to signed-in event attendees.Public
Viewer open / closeWhen the gallery is up — separately from the upload window, and usually later and longer.Always open
Requires

Posters — the viewer publishes that module's content and cannot be enabled without it. With poster review active, only approved posters appear; a published poster with no file is held back until its file lands.

Limits

One live instance per event. The gallery shows published, file-carrying posters only — there is no preview-the-drafts mode for the public page.

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