Update a portal field label

A portal shows a field under the name it has in your library, so Biography in Settings → Library is Biography in the speaker portal. There are three ways to change what participants read, depending on where the wording comes from.

Rename the field

If the field itself is misnamed for your audience — Bio should be Speaker biography — rename it once in the library and every place it appears follows, including forms, exports and the portal.

1. Go to Settings → Library at the event level (or at the organization level for a shared field).
2. Open the field and change its name.
3. Save. The portal shows the new name on the next page load.

See Field types for what each kind of field does.

Reword a form question

If the label is a question on a portal form — a speaker agreement, a travel form — it belongs to the form, not the library. Go to Program → Portals → Portal forms, open the form, edit the question’s text under Form Questions, and save. Responses already collected keep their answers. See Create & assign portal forms.

Add help text for one portal

When the name is right but participants need guidance — a word count, an example, what a term means at your event — leave the label alone and add help text for that portal only.

1. Go to Program → Portals, open the portal, and pick Manage Fields.
2. Click Help Text beside the field and write the guidance.
3. Save Manage Fields. The text appears under the field in that portal, exactly where the participant is looking.

Help text is set per portal, so the same field can carry different guidance to speakers and to sponsors. Hiding a field clears its help text. See Portals 101 — Add help text to a field.

Note

The portal has no label override of its own. If you want a field called one thing for your team and another for participants, the closest fit is a short library name with the participant-facing wording in help text.

Tip

Manage Fields is also where you Lock a field (visible, not editable) or Hide it from a portal. See Portals 101 — Manage fields.

Related

• Portals 101
• Create & assign portal forms
• Field types