Sub-Communities
Example: Board of Directors Committee can be created in the Association Database. Then there can be a Sub Community created in the Siteadmin, designating a set of web pages, discussion forums, or calendars to a specific community. When these two are synced, only the Board of Directors will be able to log in to this Sub Community.
To Create a Sub-Community:
- Switch to Siteadmin
- Click on Community
- Click on Sub-Communities
- Click on Add New Community in the top right corner of the screen
- Name your Community (I.E. Board of Directors)
- Indicate if this is a Public or Private Community
- Select the Menu Level 1 page to be password protected for this Community
- Select the Discussion Forum to be password protected for this Community
- Select the Calendar to be password protected for this Community
To add members to the Sub-Community:
- Switch to Association
- Click on Membership
- Click on Sub-Communities
- You can either find an existing Sub-Community Assignment, or Click New in the top right corner
Syncing the Sub-Community with a group of Members:
- Click on Membership in the left navigation
- Click on Sub-Communities
- Click on NEW, in the top right corner of the screen
- Select the Sub-Community that you created in the Siteadmin
- Select the Community Type
- Chapter
- Committee
- Company Type
- Subscription
- People Membership Type
- Select a reference, if applicable
- Enter a description
- Enter any comments
- Check “Synchronize Relationships”. This will create membership records and add Contacts to Sub-Communities that are related to the Assignment above.