Themes

A "theme" is a collection of components that define the look & feel of a website. The components include fonts, colors, images, etc... A theme is seperate from the content (announcements, events, etc) of your unit website.

The Theme feature allows you to easily change the look & feel of your unit website without touching your website content. That is the power of a theme.

All of the Theme features can be found in the Control Panel under the Site Theme section.

New Feature: Email List - Select All

To assist in making it easier to add users to Email Lists, a "Select All" feature has been added to the following screens:


  • Email List - Add Member
  • Email List - Delete Member
  • Email List - Add Authorized Sender
  • Email List - Delete Authorized Sender

Before and after the list of users for these screens, a new checkbox is available labeled "Select All". When you select this checkbox, all users are selected for additional/deletion.

Bug Fix: Adding large number of users to Email List

Some users were experiencing difficulties in adding a large number of users to an Email List at the same time. The system would state the users were added, but in fact they were not.

This issue has been resolved.

Access setting

By default, a SOAR unit website is Private - content can only be viewed (other than the home page) by using a username/password to loing to the unit website.

This Access setting provides a means to remove the security from your unit website and create a Public website - all content is viewable to the public without logging in. It is accessable through the Control Panel and the "Access" button.

SERIOUS THOUGHT SHOULD BE GIVEN TO CHANGING THIS SETTING!

This setting should only be used to assist in transition from an existing public unit website to a SOAR secure website service.

New Feature: Site Access - Private vs. Public

A new feature has been added to support units that are transitioning from a unit website that is public to the SOAR service which is private.

By default, a SOAR unit website is Private - content can only be viewed (other than the home page) by using a username/password to loing to the unit website.

This new feature provides a means to remove the security from your unit website and create a Public website - all content is viewable to the public without logging in. It is accessable through the Control Panel and the "Access" button.

SERIOUS THOUGHT SHOULD BE GIVEN TO CHANGING THIS SE

New Feature: Contact Form text

A new administrative feature has been added - the ability to modify the text strings contained on the Contact Us form. This feature can be accessed from the Contact Form button in the Control Panel.

The Contact Us form has also been changed so that the name and email address are cleared in the Simple Membership mode to ensure individual unit members enter their own information.

New Feature: Site Title

The "site title" that appears in the header of each page is now configurable.

Previously, the site title was automatically generated in the following format

[Pack|Troop] [Unit #] - [City], [State]

You can access the site title from the Unit Information page under the Control Panel.

Bug Fix: Adding members to Email List

With only one user added to a unit website, the message "You must add members to your unit website" was still showing and would not allow you to add members to an email list.

This error has been fixed.

New Feature: Administrative Interface

The Administration menu has been upgraded based upon customer feedback for improved usability. The new interface groups like functions together and adds icons for easier function recognition.

There are now five menu items under the Administration menu to select from. Which ones you see depend upon your access level

  1. Content - Add and Manage unit website content
  2. Content Panel - Manage unit website site settings, users, and acess to other administrative functions
  3. Email - Add and Manage email aliases and lists
  4. Online Help
  5. Report Problem - Enter a request to fix and issue with your unit website into the SOAR support system

New Feature: Email Aliases & Lists

The Email Alias and Lists features have been released and available to units that purchased the Advanced package.

Further documentation is available in the Online Help