# Content: sections and visibility

> Add the sections attendees browse in your event app, and choose when each section and item is visible.

Source: https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/content/sections-and-visibility
Audience: event organizers, working in the Highbar dashboard

**Content** is where you build what attendees browse in your event app: the schedule, speakers, sponsors, maps, files, photos and links. It's the third setup step in the event sidebar, after **Event** and **AI**.

Each part of the app is a **section**, with a type, a label and an icon. Each section appears in the app menu.

## Add a section

<Steps>
<Step>
Open **Content** and click **Add section**.

![The Content step with a Schedule section, and an arrow pointing to the Add section button.](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/add-section.webp)
</Step>
<Step>
Pick a section type from the list below.

![The Add section menu open, listing Schedule, Speakers, Sponsors, Interactive Map, Resource library, Photo gallery and Web view, with an arrow pointing to Speakers.](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/section-types.webp)
</Step>
<Step>
Enter a **Label** of up to 30 characters. This is the name attendees see in the app menu.
</Step>
<Step>
Choose an **Icon**. The **Recommended** icons suit the section type, and **Other** holds the rest.

![The Add speakers panel with the Label Speakers, and a grid of icons under Recommended and Other.](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/section-label-icon.webp)
</Step>
<Step>
Click **Save**, then click **Add content** on the section's row to start filling it.
</Step>
</Steps>

| Section type | What it holds |
| --- | --- |
| **Schedule** | Sessions with times, rooms, tracks and speakers. See [Schedule](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/content/schedule). |
| **Speakers** | Speaker profiles. See [Speakers](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/content/speakers). |
| **Sponsors** | Sponsor and exhibitor profiles. See [Sponsors and exhibitors](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/content/sponsors). |
| **Interactive Map** | Venue maps with pins linked to your content. See [Interactive maps](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/content/interactive-map). |
| **Resource library** | Files and web links, grouped into categories. See [Resource library](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/content/resource-library). |
| **Photo gallery** | Event photos, grouped into albums. See [Photo gallery](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/content/photo-gallery). |
| **Web view** | A web page shown inside the app. See [Web view](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/content/web-view). |

You can add more than one section of the same type, for example "Speakers" and a separate "Moderators" list. A second section of a type gets a number added to its label, which you can change.

## Rename, reorder or delete a section

- **Rename it or change its icon.** Open the three-dot menu on the section's row and choose **Edit**.

  ![A section's three-dot menu open, with Edit and Delete, and an arrow pointing to Edit.](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/section-menu.webp)

- **Reorder it.** The sections list follows your app menu. Click **Arrange app menu** to reorder, rename and group items on the [App menu](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/app-menu) page.

  ![The Content page with an arrow pointing to Arrange app menu, next to Add section.](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/arrange-app-menu.webp)

- **Delete it.** Open the three-dot menu, choose **Delete** and confirm.

On a wide screen, click **Show app preview** to see the app next to your list as you work.

## Show, hide or schedule sections and items

Every section has a visibility setting. So does every item in a Schedule, Speakers, Sponsors, Resource library or Photo gallery section.

| Setting | What attendees see |
| --- | --- |
| **Visible** (default) | The section or item appears in the app. |
| **Hidden** | It's left out of the app until you show it again. |
| **Scheduled** | It stays hidden until the date and time you pick, then appears on its own. |

You change visibility in two places:

- **In the edit drawer.** Next to the drawer's title is a button that reads **Visible**, **Hidden** or **Scheduled**. Click it to open the visibility panel.

  ![The Edit Speakers drawer with an arrow pointing to the Visible button next to its title, and the visibility panel open with the Hide this section switch, Cancel and Save.](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/section-visibility.webp)

- **In a list.** Hidden items show a **Hidden** pill and scheduled items show their go-live date. Click the pill to show the item now or change the schedule. To hide a visible session, speaker or sponsor quickly, use **Hide session**, **Hide speaker** or **Hide sponsor** in the row's menu.

  ![The Schedule section in the Content list with a Hidden pill and its visibility panel open. The App preview notes that hidden sections don't appear in it.](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/hidden-pill.webp)

  To hide a session from its row, open the section's tab (1), click the row's three-dot menu (2) and choose **Hide session** (3).

  ![A Schedule section's tab with the Keynote session's three-dot menu open, showing Edit, Hide session and Delete. Arrows mark the Schedule tab (1), the menu (2) and Hide session (3).](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/hide-session-menu.webp)

  The session then shows a **Hidden** pill. Click it to open its visibility panel.

  ![The Keynote session with a Hidden pill and its visibility panel open, with Hide this session on and Show at a scheduled time? off.](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/hidden-session.webp)


To schedule a section or item:

<Steps>
<Step>
Open the visibility panel and turn on **Hide this section** (or session, speaker and so on).
</Step>
<Step>
Turn on the **Show at a scheduled time?** switch.
</Step>
<Step>
Pick the **Date** and **Time**. The time uses your event's time zone, shown below it. Click the time zone to choose another.

![The visibility panel with Hide this section and Show at a scheduled time? on, an empty Date, a Time of 7:29 am, and the event's time zone, (GMT-7:00) Pacific Time, below it.](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/schedule-visibility.webp)
</Step>
<Step>
Click **Save** in the panel. If you're in an edit drawer, click the drawer's **Save** as well.
</Step>
</Steps>

<Callout type="info">
Hidden sections don't appear in the app preview either. The preview says when one is hidden or scheduled.
</Callout>

### Keep an item away from the AI Concierge

Sessions, speakers and sponsors have one more switch in the visibility panel of their edit drawer (it isn't in the panel you open from a list's **Hidden** pill): **Hide this session from the chatbot** (or speaker, or sponsor). Attendees still see the item, but the [AI Concierge](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/ai/ai-concierge) and Curated recommendations don't use it. Hidden items are already left out, so this only matters for visible ones.

To find it, click the item in its list to open the edit drawer, then click the visibility button next to the drawer's title.

![The Edit session drawer for the Keynote session, opened from the schedule list, with an arrow pointing to the Hidden button next to the title.](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/edit-session-visibility.webp)

![The session's visibility panel with Hide this session from the chatbot turned on, marked with an arrow, below Hide this session and Show at a scheduled time?](https://help.highbar.ai/images/content/hide-from-chatbot.webp)

## Bring content in faster

Two buttons sit at the top of every Content page:

- **Import** brings in sessions, speakers, sponsors and FAQs from a CSV or Excel file. See [Importing content](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/content/importing-content).
- **Integrations** connects an event platform, such as Sessionize, Swoogo or Stova, to import sessions, speakers and more from it. It's the same panel you'll find on the [Access](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/access) page. See [Integrations](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/integrations).

## What you need to launch

The Content step is complete once at least one Schedule, Speakers or Sponsors section has at least one item. Hidden items count. Map, resource library, photo gallery and web view sections don't complete the step on their own. See [Launch](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/launch).

