Published Groups

[Bridgecity]

Hey Truman,

When you publish an event you have 4 radio buttons to select from:
-General Public
-Church Members
-Staff
-Group Members.

Now, I am assuming that these are just a diminishing circle of publishing, but I want to make sure.  I'm assuming that if you check GP, then the event will be published both on the extranet and on the intranet to everyone.  If you check CM, then the event will only publish in the intranet, but to anyone who logs in.  Staff, the event will only publish in the intranet to people marked as staff in their member type, and Group Members, in the intranet and on the group screen to people logged in to the intranet who are also in a particular group.

Is that correct?

[Truman]

Hi Marc,

Really these should be checkboxes so you can check off multiple options. But for now they are radio buttons which allow you to check only one.

Here's what they mean:

General Public - events that are published everywhere

• on the public website
• in the members area (extranet)
• in the admin area (intranet) typically only accessible by staff and volunteers to whom you give permission access. The assumption is that anyone given access to the intranet should be able to see any event.

Church Members - events that are published in the members area.

Staff - events only published inside the Intranet admin area.

Group members - these events are hidden from the public calendars (on the public website). They will also be hidden in the main event module in the admin/intranet. You would have to go to the sponsoring group's event sub-module to see the event. This prevents all the group or ministry level events from cluttering the main church's calendar. When you publish a group's mini-website, it can also contain a calendar. This calendar will publish the group-specific events for that group.

[Bridgecity]

That makes sense.  Although I agree that check-boxes would be more clear:

X   Publish this on public internet calenders.
X   Publish this on the member-only intranet event list.
X   Publish this on the staff/leadership portal.
X   Publish this on a group's private calender.

Something like that would be much more clear about what is going to happen when I publish the event.

M.