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Exhibitor Center, On Your Terms: Rename It and Control Who Gets In 🎛️
"Exhibitor Center" doesn't land with every exhibitor — and until now it stayed open to everyone, forever, whether the event was unpublished, live, or long finished. Two new controls in Studio fix both at once: rename the Exhibitor Center in every platform language, and turn access on or off for each exhibitor group.
What's new
Two organizer controls, both living in Studio:
- Custom navigation labels — rename both the Event and Exhibitor Center sides of the navigation, per platform language.
- Per-group Exhibitor Center Access — a toggle on any group with exhibitors that decides whether its members can get into the Exhibitor Center.
How it works
Rename the Exhibitor Center
- In Studio, open your branded app settings and expand the new Advanced section.
- In the Desktop Navigation labels block, set an Event label and an Exhibitor Center label for each language on your platform (up to 25 characters each).
- Save. The web navigation switch and the "Me" tab immediately reflect your naming — any field left blank falls back to the default.
Control access per group
- Open any group that contains at least one exhibitor.
- Flip the new Exhibitor Center Access toggle on or off in the group's side panel.
- Save. Access updates on the exhibitor's very next load — no waiting on the event to start or end.
Key behaviors & options
- Per-language labels: name the navigation in every platform language; blank fields default to "Event" and "Exhibitor Center."
- On by default: every group with exhibitors starts with access ON — including groups created before this release — so nothing changes until you decide it does.
- Tier-based access: give Gold or Diamond exhibitors the Exhibitor Center while keeping other packages out.
- Live enforcement: switch a group off mid-event and those exhibitors lose access on their next navigation; switch it back on and they're in again — instantly.
- No broken doors: when access is off, the web switch shows the Exhibitor Center as non-clickable (with a "not accessible" hover message using your label), and the "Me" tab hides the redirect entirely.
- Lifecycle control: keep the EC open before publish so exhibitors complete their profiles, then close it once the event is over instead of leaving it open indefinitely.