First things first - Register as an Account and Login to your Shadowbox LIVE Portal
You may invite any of your team members to the portal. It can be used to view/manage your widgets, view your analytics (this is just V1 of analytics) and you can create palettes and use the Predictor tool to estimate your revenues from each client opportunity.
To power any of your existing client's apps and to enhance your offering to new prospects
Following are some ideas for your client base for this capability, based on their content and what would drive their customers to travel:
To power your events
- Speakers
- Exhibitors
- Celebrities
- Workshops
To be installed on your customers' websites as a VISIT US page
To raise money for any cause that you or your clients care about
Each individual widget can be a separate campaign for a different charity. It can be used by your employees, friends, family or any group that your company is associated with.
The self-service version of this product is being released mid-May to our client base and as a channel partner, it will be available to you as soon as it is released. We will keep you posted.
To integrate trip planning into any photo or video
The Event Widget
It is distinct from the Venue widget in that it has a specific date range for the event and a location where the event is held.
Dynamic Tool Customization
We’ve included the recommended variables for Shadowbox Live (shown encased in %VARIABLENAME% signs, which you will strip out in your actual entry):
<script type=”text/javascript”> |
tripWidget({ |
eventStart: ‘YYYY/MM/DD’, |
eventEnd: ‘YYYY/MM/DD’, |
headerText: ‘Plan your trip to ‘, |
appendPOI: ‘Y’, |
poiName: ‘%EVENTNAME%’, |
address: ‘%STREET%, %CITY%,%STATE%,%POSTCODE%’, |
trackingCode: ‘%CUSTOMERTRACKINGINFO%’, |
imageUrl: ‘%IMAGEURL%’, |
imageLink: ‘%IMAGELINK%’, |
}) |
</script> |
Once you have the code installed, contact us with the test link and we will help to test on multiple platforms and on multiple browsers. |
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The Venue Widget
It is distinct from the Event widget in that the dates of travel are relative to the date that the tool is displayed, e.g. travel 7 days from today for 1 night.
Click the HDQ widget above to see the widget for the Shadowbox Live website for people traveling to visit you.
We will walk you through the creation of a dynamic venue widget in your own custom portal.
In the next section you will find the instructions for our Dynamic tool, which shows you how to substitute your data for our variables in real time, so that you only have to install the widget snippet once. Once it is installed, if you wish to make changes, you can edit the base elements of the widget in the Portal and you do not have to reinstall the snippet. See the defaults in the last section.
Dynamic Tool - Customizing with variables from your system
Here is an example of a script to implement a dynamic widget on your web page (shown encased in %VARIABLENAME% signs, which you will strip out in your actual entry):
<script type=”text/javascript”> |
tripWidget({ |
daysFromToday: ‘7’, |
numberOfDays: ‘1’, |
headerText: ‘Plan your trip to ‘, |
appendPOI: ‘Y’, |
poiName: ‘%CONTACTNAME%’, |
address: ‘%STREET%, %CITY%,%STATE%,%POSTCODE%’, |
trackingCode: ‘%CUSTOMERTRACKINGINFO%’, |
imageUrl: ‘%IMAGEURL%’, |
imageLink: ‘%IMAGELINK%’, |
}) |
</script> |
Once you have the code installed, contact us with the test link and we will help to test on multiple platforms and on multiple browsers. |
Your Variable Settings can be modified in your TripProximity Portal
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Tech Tips
The product is currently container and device responsive. We will need to work with your app development team to determine what changes are needed for the widget to render properly from within your apps.
Static or Dynamic Widget
async onload=”tripWidget()”
The dynamic widget does not load asynchronously. If you turn on the dynamic flag in the portal in the widget editor, it removes that line from the code snippet that is generated. If you try to install a dynamic widget directly into an HTML container on WordPress, it will NOT render.
External System Interaction
- Google Places for lookup of the venues and addresses in the address field
- Google Maps for lookup of the latitude/longitude of any address
Once the input from the widget is received, we pass a search string to our booking system. It contains:
- Brand to be displayed in the booking system
- Travel parameters
- Tracking information to provide reporting back to you for each client
CSS
Rules for Display
The date fields for events can be coupled with a business rule. For instance if you have an event that begins before noon, you may want to set the date of arrival to 1 day before the event begins. If the event ends after 3pm, you may want to set the date of departure to 1 day after the event.
Just a reminder, even if there is no address or a partial address (city/state), our new widget with the Google Places lookup can find the precise address of the venue or company that they are visiting (even a Starbucks or TopGolf! or finding a hotel near someone’s house that works from home). The user controls this by using the pencil tool on the address field to do their own lookup.
Press Release Draft
Email Announcement to your Customer Base
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For any other details regarding widget customization, please access the Support Center.