Countdown
Overview
Countdown shows a title, a description and a timer counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to your event. Everyone counts down to the same moment, wherever they are.
Under the timer, readers can click a button to ask for a reminder:
- Signed-in readers who click it see "We'll remind you before it starts."
- Readers who are not signed in are asked to sign up first. Their reminder is set once they have signed in.
- Readers can click Cancel reminder to take it back.
Shortly before the event starts, readers who asked get a reminder email with the event's title, start time and description. You can change this email with the Countdown Reminder template in Email Templates.
When the time has passed, the timer and button are replaced by "This event has started."
Set up
- Go to
Audience Operation>Experienceand clickNew Experience. - Pick Countdown, then click
Next Step. - Enter a Name, choose the Project and turn on Enable.
- Set the settings:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Starts at | When the event starts. Enter it in your own time zone, which is shown under the field. |
| Title | The heading above the timer. |
| Reminder button | The text on the reminder button. "Remind me" if you leave it empty. |
| Description | Optional. Text under the title. |
| Button colour | The background colour of the reminder button. |
| Button text colour | The text colour of the reminder button. |
- Click
Save Changes. The preview shows how the countdown looks.
If you choose a time that has passed, the editor tells you, and readers see that the event has started.
Reminder emails are sent only while the experience is enabled.
Put it on your pages
Place the placeholder where the countdown should appear. Copy it from the experience, which fills in its ID, or replace EXPERIENCE_ID yourself:
<div data-exp="unis-countdown" data-exp-id="EXPERIENCE_ID"></div>
Without data-exp-id, the page shows the Countdown experience that an Orchestration delivers to it.
See the Countdown experience and Set up experiences on your website.
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