Creating Committees
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You probably already have a page listing out your board members, but let's say that your committees are active, too. Here's how you can create a page that lists out your committees and your members.
First, we'll create the committees themselves. We'll go to Membership > Group Manager. In the list of groups, find the group that's named Member Groups. This has to stay named Member Groups, that name can't be changed. On the right, click the Add Subgroups button.
You'll notice we have a tiered structure, and that's required. Without this, our committee listings won't display right. We'll click the button to add a new subgroup, and this will be our new committee. We'll enter in the committee name as well as the description. Check the box to ensure that your committee members appear in the member directory.
This option says whether or not members can add themselves to the committee. I'm going to uncheck it, and then click Add. Under our committee, we need a few subgroups. These are going to be the individual positions within the committee. I'll set up my community outreach chair with the checkboxes as before. In this drop-down, I'll say that this is a position under the community outreach committee. You'll see that this is indented like the others.
I need one more. This is for general committee members. You'll repeat these steps for all of the committees and positions that you need. If you need to rearrange them, use the Sort button here. If I click Next, it'll take me to the All Done screen.
I'll scroll down to the section for assigning group members and click the Edit link here. Each one of these will accordion-fold open and give me the ability to search for and add members to the position. If I've added the wrong person and I need to remove them, I'll select them with the box, then click Remove.
Now I'm done with my committee setup and it's time to put this onto a page. I'll move into Content > Page Manager > Page Content. I want a completely new page for my committees, but if you like you can add this material to an existing page. At the top, I'll click to add a page. My page will just be called "Committees," and we'll add it to the About Us menu. On the next screen, we'll edit our content.
For a slower introduction to creating and editing pages, please see the other dedicated videos in our knowledgebase. I'll click on the plus sign to add my committee listing. The section I want is under the Members tab. If you're on a somewhat older StarChapter layout, you may not see the same section options that I have here, but you will still see one for Group Display. That's the one you'll want.
Select that, and then we'll choose our committee. I'll add this section and in a real scenario, I would add a few more of these for my programs and education committees. But this will do for today. I'm confident in how this looks, so I'll publish it and then hop into a new tab to look at the front end of the system. Under About Us, we have our committees link with our community outreach and the individuals with their positions.
And that's all there is to it. Now our committee members have a space of their own. If you want to expand that, consider using our forum or blog tools so that your committee members can post their activities and share them with the community.
