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After creating your story by uploading a video or a static image, you can start personalizing it by choosing your widgets from a more than 15 templates. Users will interact with those widgets via personalized content and that's what makes a story dynamic.
Below is a sample execution of how to add different types of widgets to your story.
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How to Set Up a Widget
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Create an Event
On C-S studio you can put as many widgets you want but always keep an eye on adding to much to avoid a confused ad.
Widgets can appear at the time you want or be triggered by another widget.
So, let's start!
- On the right side, just below the video preview
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- , click on "New Event
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- ", to add your first widget;
- Name the event you are adding and
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- then setup when to trigger it through the timecode
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- "Save and Add Widget".
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Set Up a Widget
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After creating your event, you will be prompt to the
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"Widget Data" page:
- Description: name your widget so that you will always be able to recognize it in the future (i.e. CTA, logo, video click...);
- Widget Type: most of the times you have to select "Instant app" unless you want to create a quiz or a poll which work differently and have their own field in the drop down list;
- Mode: select "Show" if you want your widget to appear at the selected time or hide if you need to let a widget disappear at the time you chose;
- Widget ID: if this is you first widget select wcd-1, if it's the second one choose wcd-2 and so on;
- Name: here you can write the same name you put in the "Description" field;
- 5. Some widgets (such as Polls,Hotspots and Interactive Element) can be added as an overlay to your videos, you may choose to make your widget a webcontent or webcontent-overlay under Widget ID box.
6. Choose from any of the readily available templates for your widget's dynamic lay-out by choosing from the template drop down options (For example Interactive Element, Interactive Logo and much more) - 7. Some widget, such as Quiz and Poll have an Advanced option. Click on "Advanced" to further edit the widget such as adding a background image or other items to it.
- 8. When you are done click Save. You will be redirected to the Story editor.
- 9. If you want your widgets to disappear at a certain point of your ad, you will need to create another widget event for this and then input the timecode you wish the widget to disappear at.. This is when your widget will disappear.
- 10. Select the specific widget type you want to disappear and then under mode select "Hide". Click save when you are done.
- 11. After you can resize and repositioning the widget in overlay in the left box.
- 12. After setting up your widgets, you can preview how they would look like by clicking on the "Open Preview". This will give you a clear idea of how the story rolls out.
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