Widgets

Connected Stories offer different varieties of widgets that can be implemented in your story. Users can interact with 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.

How to Set Up a Widget

It is important to understand that widgets need to be timed. Therefore each widget is linked to an event. This allows you to have widgets that dynamically interact with your ads to appear and disappear as you wish.
1. On the right end side, just below the video preview - click on New Event.
2. Name the event you are adding and the setup when to trigger it through the timecode. Then select "Save and Add Widget".

3. You will be prompt to the add widget area. Here you can insert a description of your widget and select the type of widget you want to add.

4. Select "Show" under mode in order to have the widget appear at the time you selected. You will select "Hide" when you want the widget to disappear.

5. Some widgets (such as Polls and Quizzes) can be added as an overlay to your assets, 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.
7. 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 adding 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.

Connecting the Widgets

The most fascinating aspect of Connected-Stories is being able to set up a widget that will trigger another widget within a story. Based on a user's action/s, a story can evolve in many different ways. In order to understand and define the logic behind it, we encourage you to visit the Storyboard section.

Here you will see how to actually connect widgets (events) after a storyboard has already been designed for the story.

1. Click on new event or hit on edit if the event you want to connect has already been created.

2. Under the "Key Value" box, choose from the list of choices available to associate with a particular event.

3. Now hit on "Open Preview" to see how your story evolves based on the events you connected within the underlying rules engine.

*FYI: Status/Key Values are the final blocks you placed in the rules engine logic. These are the ones you must connect to a particular event for the dynamic storytelling to be implemented. More of this in the Storyboard.