Setting Up the Viewer Seat Environment

After setting up functional and object security as described in Setting Up Security For the Viewer Seat, the next tasks should be performed by an experienced 25Live user signed in as the Viewer Seat. These tasks determine how the non-signed-in Viewer sees date/time information in 25Live and what their "starred" objects are. The tasks include:

  • Setting date/time preferences of the Viewer Seat
  • Starring events, locations, and other objects for the Viewer Dashboard

To Set the Date/Time Preferences of the Viewer Seat

These changes will only impact Viewer Seat users. To update the default date and time settings for all users, please see Date and Time Defaults.

  • Sign in or masquerade as the Viewer Seat user. 
  • Open the User Settings area of the More menu.

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To "Star" Objects of the Viewer Seat

You can star specific events, locations, resources, and/or organizations (and even reports, if desired) as the Viewer Seat user so they appear as "starred" items on the 25Live Home Dashboard for Viewers and in pre-defined search groupings of “starred” objects.

  • Sign in or masquerade as the Viewer Seat user.
  • Click Go To Search, then choose the object type you want to search for from the Select Object dropdown.
  • Search for the objects you want to star using a simple search by keyword or other search criteria or run a pre-defined search.
  • Click the star icon to the left of each object you want to star. In this example, some locations with media equipment have been starred.
    25Live screenshot of location searchImage: Example of a starred object location.
  • To see the starred objects in the 25Live Home Dashboard, click the Home tab, then click the Refresh icon on the appropriate starred area of the page.