Module 7 of 13 · Platform Walkthrough

Search, Filter & Data Management

How administrators slice and act on attendee data. The Event Attendees page combines a quick name/company search, an advanced criteria builder that can combine profile and survey properties, customisable column views you can save and reuse, plus a row of bulk actions — activate, deactivate, multi-edit, export, and downloads — all on the same selection.

Audience: Event Administrators, Operations Surface: Event Attendees (admin console) Prerequisite: Attendees and surveys exist for the event

1. The Event Attendees Page 00:00 – 00:24

The single page where administrators look at every attendee in the event.

Narrator · 00:00 – 00:24 In this session we look at how we search and filter our attendees, and how we use the data provided from the survey and from the profiles to gather information. Once you have a given set of attendees — like in this case, this event has 1,148 participants — you have an option to navigate through and search.
Event Attendees page with Quick Search panel, Customize View row, Search Results table with columns Alias, Position, Email, Company, AttendeeType
Event Attendees. The page intro reads: "Search for event attendees under the relevant categories or use the filters provided for an advanced search. Use the provided actions for effective attendee management." Two tabs sit at the top — Quick Search and Advanced Search — followed by Customize View and a paginated Search Results table.

Three fields, one search — for everyday lookups.

The Quick Search tab lets you search by First Name, Last Name, or Company Name. Useful when you know who you're looking for and just need to get to their record.

Combine profile properties and survey properties with AND logic — as deep as you want.

Narrator · 00:24 – 00:51 What is more important is if you go to advanced search. There you can define different criteria based on what you have in the system. For example, if I select an attendee type — and you'll see the system already starts providing more options — and I select partner.
Narrator · 00:51 – 01:13 The system automatically gives me an option to include a condition like and, and then I can choose from any other profile property or survey property in the system. So if I search for, for example, "Who are the key strategic partners?" — this was a survey question — I can choose Queensland Treasury.
Advanced Search panel with two criteria rows — Attendee Type = All, plus an AND row with a dropdown showing survey properties from CIO ASIA SPARTNERS and DELEGATES forms
Advanced Search criteria builder. Top row sets Folder / Load Query / System query. Each criterion row picks a field, an operator, and a value. The second row's field dropdown shows survey properties pulled from the form library — [CIO ASIA SPARTNERS PART 1] Key Driver 2, [CIO ASIA SPARTNERS PART 5] Please specify, [CIO ASIA SPARTNERS PART 3] No. of Employees, [CIO ASIA SPARTNERS PART 4] Annual Revenue, [CIO ASIA DELEGATES PART 1] Other - Please Specify, etc. Buttons: + Add Criteria, Save Query, Search.
Narrator · 01:13 – 01:34 I click Queensland Treasury and start the search. The system gives me only the attendees who have Queensland Treasury as a partner and who are partners themselves. So you have full flexibility in how you define and look through your data.
ConceptWhat it does
Folder filterScope the criteria to a folder of forms.
Load QueryPull a previously saved advanced-search query.
Criteria rowOne field + operator + value triple. Add as many as needed with + Add Criteria.
Field dropdownEither a profile property (Attendee Type, Company, Email…) or a survey property — every form question becomes filterable.
Save QuerySave the criteria set to reuse next time (named query).

4. Customize View & Saved Views 01:34 – 02:46

Pick the columns you want; save the layout as a named view.

Narrator · 01:34 – 01:54 But that's not all. You also can customize your view — what you see as columns. If you click Show Field Chooser, you have all properties available for that attendee and that company. From here, for example, if I select the job title or job level, or an office location.
Narrator · 01:54 – 02:22 I tick the boxes and you see on the left it adds more information. If I am choosing from the survey questions — like "Who do you consider as key strategic partners?" — the system provides another column with the information that the partners have placed into their profile.

Show Field Chooser opens a panel listing every available column — every profile field plus every survey question. Tick / untick to add or remove columns from the table. Survey-property columns work the same way as profile columns: the cell shows that attendee's answer.

Narrator · 02:22 – 02:46 Having this view, you can then say "Queensland Treasury Partner Review" and click Save as New. So in the next step, when you come into the system, you already have that saved as a customized view, and you can click through and access it immediately.

The Customize View row above the table holds Select View (named saved views), Update Current View, and Save As New. Saved views combine the column selection with the current advanced-search query — so a view is "this set of attendees, displayed with this set of columns".

Why this is the heart of the data layer
Saved views are how administrators turn ad-hoc analyses into a reusable workflow. "Queensland Treasury Partner Review" is a complete recipe: who to look at + what to look at. Build it once; come back to it next week, next year, or for a cloned event (Module 1).

5. Per-Attendee Inspect & Edit 02:46 – 03:14

Click an attendee to see their full record; edit anything inline.

Narrator · 02:46 – 03:14 As an administrator, you also have a quick overview of each of these participants — what they look like, what data they provided — and you have an ability to edit these attendees manually on their profiles if you have a need for that.

Each row in the results table is clickable. You get a full attendee detail view — the same profile the attendee fills in (Module 5 §3) — with admin-only edit controls for any field. Useful for fixing typos, correcting answers, or maintaining VIP attendees by hand.

6. Bulk Actions — Activate, Deactivate, Multi-Edit, Export 03:14 – 03:56

Tick rows, then run an action across all of them at once.

Narrator · 03:14 – 03:32 The final thing about the data and managing the data is that you have a set of actions you can execute over the selected data. For example, you can activate the attendees in terms of giving them access — or closing access to the profile.
Search results with three rows ticked and a Multi Edit dialog open showing Cancel and Save buttons; action toolbar above includes Activate Attendee, Deactivate Attendee, Delete attendee, Export File Type, Export data, Download
Bulk-action toolbar & Multi Edit. Above the table: Activate Attendee, Deactivate Attendee, Delete attendee, Multi Edit, an Export File Type picker, Export data, and a Download dropdown. Three attendee rows are ticked, and the Multi Edit dialog is open in the middle of the screen ready to apply a change across all three at once.
Narrator · 03:32 – 03:56 You can export the data into several formats — XLS, XML, JSON, whatever is currently set up on your portal. And you can execute a bulk update — for example, select these three participants and say Multi Edit and change the company name for them, or change their attendee type, and click Save.
Narrator · 03:56 – 04:22 The system will automatically go through all of them and update their properties as set. You can download handouts, profile PDFs — whatever you have uploaded.
ActionWhat it does
Activate / Deactivate AttendeeOpen or close access to the client panel for selected attendees in bulk.
Delete attendeeRemove selected attendees from the event.
Multi EditChange one or more fields (e.g. company, attendee type) across every selected row at once.
Export dataExport the current selection in the configured format(s) — XLS, XML, JSON, etc.
DownloadPull down handouts, profile PDFs and other uploaded artifacts for the selection.

7. Adding an Attendee Manually 04:22 – 04:47

For VIPs or late additions that didn't come through registration.

Narrator · 04:22 – 04:47 If you have a need for a new attendee that came through and needs to be manually input into the system, you click Add Attendee. From here you choose the properties — first name, last name, email — you can even generate a password for them, and choose what type of participant they are and which company they belong to. You then provide all that information into the system, which will make them join the event and be part of the organization.

Add Attendee opens a small form for the essential identity + classification fields. The platform can generate the password automatically. Once saved, the new attendee gets a regular client-panel account scoped to their attendee type — same plan, same forms, same matchmaking pipeline as everyone else.

8. Essence & Takeaways

The one-paragraph version

The Event Attendees page is the operational data layer of the platform. Quick Search handles "find a person fast". Advanced Search is a criteria builder that mixes profile properties and survey properties with AND logic, with named saved queries. Customize View + Show Field Chooser let administrators add any profile or survey field as a column, and save the entire (filter + columns) combo as a named view they can come back to later. Each row drills into a full editable attendee record. Above the results, a bulk-action toolbar lets administrators tick multiple attendees and run an action — Activate, Deactivate, Delete, Multi Edit (change one or more fields across the whole selection), Export data (XLS / XML / JSON / etc.), and Download (handouts, profile PDFs). A separate Add Attendee button handles manual onboarding for VIPs or late additions, with email + password and an attendee-type / company classification.

Use this page as the basis for…
  • An ops runbook for "I need to find / fix / export attendees" tasks.
  • A reference for whoever rebuilds or extends the attendee admin UI.
  • A list of common saved views every event should have ("Sponsors with no profile", "Delegates without a survey", "Speakers", etc.).
  • A QA list when launching a new event — verify search-by-survey-property still works after form changes.

9. Full Transcript

Verbatim narration provided alongside the video.

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00:00 – 00:24
In this session, we are going to look into how we search and filter our attendees and how we actually use the data provided from the survey and from the profiles in order to gather information. So as soon as you have a given set of attendees, like in this case, on this event we have 1,148 participants or similar.
00:24 – 00:51
You have an option to navigate through and search on particular first name, last name, or the company name. But what is more important is if you go on advanced search. On advanced search, you can define different criteria based on what you have into the system. For example, if I select an attendee type—and you will see the system already started providing more options—and I select "partner."
00:51 – 01:13
The system automatically gives me an option to include a condition—like "and"—and then I can choose from any other profile property or survey property that I have in the system. So if I search for, for example, "Who are the key strategic partners?"—this was a survey question—and I can choose "Queensland Treasury."
01:13 – 01:34
So from here I click " Queensland Treasury," and then I start the search. And the system gives me only the attendees who have Queensland Treasury as a partner and who are partners themselves. So by doing that, you have full flexibility in how you define and look through your data.
01:34 – 01:54
But that's not all. You also can customize your view. This is what you see as columns. So if you click "Show Field Chooser," you have all properties that are available for that attendee and for that company. So from here, you can see these were selected. But for example, if I select the job title or job level, or for example, an office location.
01:54 – 02:22
So I tick the boxes, and you see on the left—it will actually add more information. And if I am choosing from the survey questions, like "Who do you consider as key strategic partners?"—the system will provide another column with the information that the partners have placed into their profile.
02:22 – 02:46
So having this view, you can then say "Queensland Treasury Partner Review" and click "Save as New." So in the next step, when you come into the system, you already have that saved as a customized view, and then you can click through and access it immediately.
02:46 – 03:14
From here, as an administrator, you have also a quick overview of each of these participants—like how they look like, what is the data provided—and then also you have an ability to edit these attendees manually on their profiles if you have a need for that.
03:14 – 03:32
And the final thing about the data and managing the data is that you have a set of actions that you can execute over the selected data. For example, you can activate the attendees in terms of giving them access or closing access to the profile.
03:32 – 03:56
You can export the data into several formats like XLS, XML, JSON, whatever is currently set up on your portal. And also you can execute a bulk update—like for example, you can select these three participants and say "Multi-edit" and change the company name for them. Or change their attendee type and click "Save."
03:56 – 04:22
And the system will automatically go through all of them and it will automatically update their properties as they're here. You can download handouts, profile PDFs—whatever you have uploaded. And if you have a need for a new attendee that came through and needs to be manually input into the system, you click "Add Attendee."
04:22 – 04:47
And from here you choose the properties—first name, last name, email—you can even generate a password for them and choose what is the type of that participant and in which company they belong. And you then provide all that information into the system, which will make them join the event and be part of the organization.
04:47 – 04:55
So that was a general walkthrough of ExpoStudio and all the possibilities being provided as a platform. I hope you find this useful!