Testing your QR codes

Test your Bloomberg Connects QR codes so you can feel confident that your signs and printed collateral send people to the right content.

Before launch

Before your guide launches, all of your content exists in a draft. Log in to the Connects app's internal mode to access your draft and confirm that your QR codes take you to the right content.

Steps:

1. In the CMS, download your lookup QR codes and promotional QR code.
2. In the app, log in to internal mode.
3. Scan a QR code on the same device you used to log in to internal mode.
4. Your content appears.

After launch

After your guide launches, your QR codes only take people to the live version of your guide. The codes can't open content that exists in a draft.

This can make it hard to verify that the lookup QR codes you printed to support an upcoming exhibition work as expected (before you place them on your gallery walls!).

As a workaround, you can briefly publish your draft content, test your QR codes, then hide the content until you're ready to expose it to the public. Carefully following the steps below should let you test the codes without visitors accidentally coming across the new content.

Steps:

1. In a new draft, add your content. To ensure that visitors don't stumble upon the content while you test the codes:
   • Don't add the content to your home screen
   • Don't attach the content to any map pins
   • Don't associate the content with any publicly available lookup numbers
   • Don't add the content to the Related section of any other content

   • Don't feature any content on your map

     Note: Make sure that the draft only includes the content that you want to test.

2. Download your lookup QR codes.
3. When you're ready to test the codes, publish your draft.
4. On your mobile device, scan your QR codes.
5. Once you've verified that the QR codes take you to the right place, in the live version of your guide, hide the new content. This completely prevents visitors from finding the content until you're ready.
6. Create another new draft.
7. In the draft, make the content discoverable. This means:
   • Change the content visibility from hidden to visible
   • Add the content to your home screen
   • Attach the content to map pins
   • Associate the content with lookup numbers
   • Add the content to the Related section of other content
   • Feature select content on your map
8. When you're ready to expose the content to visitors, publish your draft.