PC2 Social Sharing, Can the Share window that opens be customized?

Jonathan,

I dont think anyone has tried this yet ... but our agreement with Gigya allows you to use Gigya components on any Convio-hosted page - including PC2.

I dont think it would be an easy customization, but it is possible that you could use the native Gigya component on your PC2.

The big difference would be that the native component ties into interactions and reporting within Convio and is supported because its an integrated part of the product.

If you implement native Gigya components in PC2 or elsewhere they dont integrate into the reporting and interactions, nor are they supported because they would be considered website customizations.

If you want to go this route, make sure you create a new test PC2 where you can experiement with impedding this code - but again i have not seen anyone do this yet.

If there is anyone out there that has, please let us know.

Thanks,

Casey Flinn

Convio Product Management

JW Walton:

So I'm guessing by your answer that their is not a way within COM to update say the background color in the popup window?

An idea on why Convio went with a custom look for the pop up rather than sticking with the standard (more common) looking template?

I think users who share from webpages a lot have come to expect that standerd look and might be less trusting of the smiple custom look.

No, you cannot edit that component from within the COM admin console.

Whe we initially released the Gigya integration all the components were Flash components.

We cant use flash in the platform since it cannot be tested via automation, so we needed to create our own components.

Since then Gigya has released HTML versions of their components.

Implementing these HTML components within COM is something we want to do but is currently not on the roadmap.

Thanks,

Casey Flinn

Convio Product Managment

JW Walton:

So I'm guessing by your answer that their is not a way within COM to update say the background color in the popup window?

An idea on why Convio went with a custom look for the pop up rather than sticking with the standard (more common) looking template?

I think users who share from webpages a lot have come to expect that standerd look and might be less trusting of the smiple custom look.

Not that you can style the component, even if you can't "customize" it -- there is a stylesheet included in PC2 called custom.css that exists for just such purposes. You can edit it by going to TeamRaiser -> Participant Centers -> Edit your PC2 -> Configure Options -> Edit Custom Styles. The following CSS, for example, would set the background to white:

.yui-skin-ux .yui-panel, .yui-skin-ux .yui-panel .hd, .yui-skin-ux .yui-panel .ft{
   background:#ffffff !important;
}