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Choose Rich Text for All or Selected Boxes in Dryfta Forms

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A structured form often needs more than one kind of answer. A background section may benefit from emphasis and lists, while a short methods note works best as plain text. Dryfta now lets organizers enable rich-text editing for every box in a Multiple Text Box field, or only the boxes they select.

The choice stays with the existing field, alongside its labels, visibility and word or character limits. Participants see formatting tools where they are useful and a plain text area elsewhere. This guide explains the three modes, how to configure them, and practical ways to design clearer conference forms.

Find the Next Upcoming Session and Refresh Event Days in the Dryfta App

Conference days move quickly. Attendees opening an event app need to see what comes next, while organisers need schedule changes to reach people who already saved the programme. Dryfta now brings these needs together with automatic positioning at the next upcoming session during an ongoing event and a refresh that discovers updated event days.

The schedule keeps the upcoming session card and its time heading visible below the fixed controls. Attendees can still choose another day, browse sessions and use My Schedule. This guide explains the updated experience, practical ways to use it, and the event information it depends on.

Can Every Reader Use Your Conference Proceedings? Fix PDFs and Metadata Before Publication

On the day before publication, a conference chair opens one final paper. It looks fine on screen, but a screen reader, which reads digital content aloud, follows the columns in the wrong order, cannot explain the main chart and announces the file by its filename. The online record also lists one author incorrectly. The paper passed peer review, but it is not ready for every reader.
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Share Selected Profile Fields Across Your Organization’s Dryfta Events

Participants return to several events run by the same organization. When their name or telephone number changes, updating each event separately creates repeated work and inconsistent profiles. Dryfta now lets organizers decide which profile fields should stay shared across their organization’s connected events, while keeping other answers specific to each event.

With selected fields connected, a saved profile change can travel to the participant’s linked accounts in the background. The existing My Events area also provides a route into connected events after account ownership has been established. This guide explains the setup, the participant experience, and the boundaries to check.

New Badge Starters in Dryfta: Summit and A4 Four-Fold Layouts

Preparing name badges involves more than placing a logo beside a participant’s name. Conference teams need readable names, space for roles, a usable QR code, and a layout that suits their chosen paper. Starting from an appropriate design makes those decisions easier to review before printing begins.

Dryfta’s Badge Builder now provides Summit as the starting layout for eligible standard badge sizes and an A4 four-fold starter for A4. Both starters remain fully editable drafts until you save. Existing customized designs are preserved, giving organizers a practical starting point without automatically replacing badges they have already prepared for their event.

Make Every Poster Easier to Read: Accessible Scientific Poster Requirements for Conferences

At 9:00 a.m., the poster hall opens. One visitor finds a poster whose body text disappears from two metres away. Another reaches a chart that separates its data only by red and green. A third scans the QR code and lands on an image-only PDF that a screen reader cannot interpret. The conference has covered size and mounting, but it has not issued accessible scientific poster guidelines or explained what organizers will check.

Accessible scientific poster guidelines should cover the real viewing distance, readable text, clear contrast, non-colour cues, a logical reading order, labelled figures and an accessible version containing the poster’s essential content. Organizers should publish those requirements before presenters begin designing, test the digital access route and review files early enough to request corrections before printing.

Export a Complete Panel Proposal as One PDF in Dryfta

A panel proposal contains an introduction followed by several linked presentations. Exporting those records separately can leave the organizer or submitter assembling files by hand and checking whether the introduction and contributions are still in the right order.

Dryfta’s combined panel PDF keeps the saved introduction and the contributions a viewer is authorized to access together in one document. The panel structure determines the order, with each record beginning on a new page. This makes the export easier to follow as a proposal. Here is what the document includes, who can generate it, and what to check before sharing it.

When Registration Revenue Does Not Match the Bank: Conference Registration Payment Reconciliation

Conference registration payment reconciliation becomes urgent when three reports appear to tell three different stories. The registration export shows $100,000 in paid orders. The payment processor shows $93,420 in payouts. The September bank statement shows only $84,000 received. That does not automatically mean $16,000 has vanished.

Those figures may cover different parts of the payment journey and different dates. A registration report records what attendees bought. A processor report explains what it collected, refunded, deducted and grouped into payouts. A bank statement records when funds actually arrived. Reconciliation connects those records and gives every difference a documented reason.

Choose Where Company Banners Appear Across Your Dryfta Website and App

Sponsor and exhibitor visibility is more useful when it appears in the places your audience visits. Dryfta’s category banner placements let organizers choose where eligible company banners appear across the event website and app, instead of treating every page as the same advertising space.

The controls offer choices for destinations such as the homepage, people lists, sponsor and exhibitor lists, documents and sessions. Each placement can be disabled, limited to the website, limited to the app, or used on both. Here is how to plan those choices, connect banners with company information, and check the experience before promoting the event.

Publish Dryfta Homepage Widgets Independently on Your Website and App

Your conference website and event app often serve different moments in an attendee’s journey. A website helps visitors discover the event, while the app supports people preparing to attend and taking part. Dryfta now lets organizers choose homepage widget publication separately for each platform.

Use Website Designer to decide what appears on the website, and Event App Publisher to choose the app’s widgets. You can keep a supported widget off the website while including it in the app, or do the reverse. Shared content remains shared. Here is how the independent controls work and how to plan a clear experience.

Manage Session Proposal Limits and Moderator Enrollment in Dryfta

Building a seminar program means knowing more than how many sessions exist. Organizers and moderators need to see how many proposals belong to each session, whether the session has reached its minimum, and how much room remains before its maximum.

Dryfta brings those details into session proposal management through configured limits, the Seminar Enrollment view for moderators, and additional Program Builder columns and filters. The result is a clearer way to review developing sessions without maintaining a parallel spreadsheet. This guide explains the counts, the distinction between authors and proposals, and how to prepare the views your organizing team needs.