Tutorial: Create a Conference add-on

Conference project is used for the purpose of this tutorial as source project. You can download it from Sitefinity CMS GitHub repository. The Conference add-on contains Conferences, Speakers, and Sessions dynamic modules, Filtered Sessions widget, and sample pages and content.

The module consists of Conference dynamic content type with the following fields:

• Title (Short text)
• Description (Long text)
• Images (Related media)
• Speakers (Related data)
• Sessions (Related data)

The module consists of Speaker dynamic content type which has field FullName (Short text).

The module consists of Session dynamic content type with the following fields:

• Title (Short text)
• Speakers (Related data)

The widget displays Sessions by specified Conference and Speaker. The widget has a custom widget designer where you have a dropdown boxes for selecting the Conference and the Speaker.

• Home page
  The sample Home page demonstrates the use of the Filtered Sessions widget. It has two Filtered Sessions widgets - one configured to show sessions, filtered by conference C# Conference and speaker Julia and the other one configured to show sessions, filtered by conference C# Conference and speaker James.
• Sessions, Conferences and Speakers pages
  These pages open when an item on the Home page is clicked.