Turn on networking and chat

Publish the delegate directory in the app so attendees can find each other, connect and chat.

Who can do thisowneradmin

Networking adds a People tab to the evenclo app. Attendees see who they should meet, can search for each other, send a connection request, and chat once it is accepted.

Steps

Open Networking → Chat.
Switch on Turn networking on.
Networking and chat page with the switch to turn networking on

Turning this on publishes a delegate list to every confirmed attendee. Attendees can hide themselves, but the default is visible. Decide this once, knowingly, and say so in your registration confirmation.

How connecting works

An attendee sends a connection request. The other person gets a notification and an email.
Once they accept, the two can chat in the app. There is no way to message someone you are not connected to.
Each pair can only ever have one request between them, so a request cannot be used to spam someone.
Chat messages send a notification only, not an email.

Attendees can also connect by scanning each other's badge in the app.

Two separate privacy choices

Attendees control two things independently:

Hide me from the directory removes them from the People tab and from the leaderboard.
Do not book me for meetings stops 1:1 bookings.

Switching meetings off does not hide someone from the directory, and hiding from the directory does not stop meetings.

Where the rest lives

What people are matched on is set on the Matchmaking page.
Scoring attendees is set on the Leaderboard page.

Common problems

An attendee cannot find someone. That person hid themselves from the directory, or is not confirmed yet.

A connection request "did nothing". The other person has not accepted it yet. Chat opens only after they do.