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    Update Board Members 


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    Your board members are leaders in the organization. They should be names and faces that your members recognize. So, today we'll look at how to update your Board of Directors page.

    The built-in Board of Directors page has multiple components. We'll look at assigning members to board positions, changing the board positions themselves, changing the information that displays, and renaming the page.

    Here's the board of directors page that we're updating. We use a group to hold the board members, and subgroups define the different positions that board members can hold.

    Let's look at assigning members to board positions

    • In the admin area, go to Membership > Group Manager. Find the group named Board of Directors.
    • Click on the Add Group Members button on the right.
    • You'll see a list of the board positions here. Click on any position to expand it.
    • To remove someone, click on their check box and click Remove.
    • To add someone new in their place, use the search box. Select the new person and click Add.

    The changes are applied to your board page immediately.

    What if we have a new role?

    • From Group Manager, find the group and click on the Add Subgroups button on the right.
    • Click to add a subgroup.
    • Give the new position a name. Enter the name in both the name AND the description fields. The description, not the name, is what shows on the board page. If your board members are showing on the page without their titles, an empty description for their position is probably the reason why.
    • We also want our board member to show in the member directory.
    • If the positions are in the wrong order, we have a Sort button here.
    • This new board role, since it's empty, won't display on the board page. After you assign someone to this role the way we did previously, it will show on your board page.

    We can make edits on the board page, just like any other page in StarChapter. We may have a group photo of our board members to add, for example.

    But there is one specific change you may be interested in: you might not call them your Board of Directors. Maybe your organization uses the term "Executive Committee," or maybe you'd like to display the term along with "Board of Directors." One thing that you really shouldn't do is rename the group. When our system shows a visitor the Board of Directors page, it looks for a group with that specific name. If you rename this group, the page will break.

    So, how do you show a different title?

    • Through Page Content. We'll go through Content > Page Manager > Page Content.
    • We'll search for the Board page and click to edit it.
    • Under General, we'll click Edit, and then we'll change the page name.
    • We should also change the link display names, below.
    • Once that's done, we'll click Next, then Save and Publish.

    Our Board of Directors page is now an Executive Committee page.

    Let's go through one more situation: maybe there's too much information displaying. If any particular board member doesn't want their information to show, they can hide it in their member profile. I'll log in first. Then I'll go to Member Information Editor, and here I have the option to hide something from the directory or other listings--like the board page.

    It's also possible to go through Design, then Page Templates, and to edit the Board of Directors template here. However, this section uses some code, and so our team can make those changes for you. Just send us a support ticket and let us know what you're looking to change, and we'll help you out.