Content Admins have limited access to Campaign/Membership Listing creation. Please see the Membership section for further information.
Add a Campaign or Membership Listing Module
- Navigate to the page where you want to add a Campaign or Membership Listing.
- Click the Content Modules dropdown menu.
- Select Campaign Listing or Membership Listing and hover over it; the Campaign/Membership Type options will be shown. When you hover over an Campaign/Membership Type, the mouse cursor will change to . You can then click and hold on it to drag and drop it onto the page. The module will be place above the area that is shaded in light blue.
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Manage Module Settings
1. Click Content Builder to make it active. The light bulb will change to yellow. Click to edit the Membership Listing module. The first items you can edit are the
Content Module Name: Enter a name for the module.
Audience: Specify the audience who can see this module. You can allow everyone or only certain members to view the information. The default is Everyone.
- Everyone - Audience does not need to be logged in to view this content.
- Logged In - Members must be logged in to view this content.
- Role - Only members who fit the criteria for a certain role (i.e., Class of 1992, Current Students, or Female alumni) will be able to see this content.
Choose from the previously created list of roles in the dual list box and use the
arrows to select.- Deny Access to the following: You may also exclude certain groups from the Audience by using this checkbox. Then, choose from the previously created list of roles and use the arrows to select a group to exclude.
For example, you could include Everyone in the Audience except the Class of 2008:
- Select Everyone in the first list box.
- Click the checkbox to Deny Access to the following.
- Select Class of 2008 in the second list box.
- Deny Access to the following: You may also exclude certain groups from the Audience by using this checkbox. Then, choose from the previously created list of roles and use the arrows to select a group to exclude.
2. You can also modify the Display Options (shown below).
- Display Limit: This sets the maximum number of items that can be displayed. Enter the number of membership campaigns you would like to have displayed on the page. If you have lots of campaigns or a lot of other content on the page, this is a good way to limit the amount of space taken up by membership campaigns.
- Order By: Options are Custom, Reverse Chronological, Chronological, or Content Name (alphabetical).
- Reverse Chronological - Show the most recent items at the top of the listing - this is the default mode so that the most recent items appears at the top of the Listing.
- Chronological - Shows the items in the order that they appear in terms of dates ( today's items first, followed by those for tomorrow etc. ) This is the default mode for Event listings.
- Content Name - Organizes the items alphabetically.
- Custom - Select this if you want to apply your own custom sort order to a listing. If enabled, an additional sorting icon will appear where you can set your sort order for the listing items.
- Group by Date: This organizes the items so that they are grouped by their assigned dates - such as all items for 3/1/08 then all items for 3/2/08, etc.
- Enable Rolling Dates: Enables the content and the calendar to automatically rollover to the new month/year. This setting determines if the Listing will show only the current week or monthly listing of items, via the date filter, or if it will show 7 days or 30 days out from the current date. For example, enabling this setting means that the Listing will show all items in a monthly view 30 days out from today; but if not enabled, the it will show only those items, both past and upcoming, for the current month.
- RSS Options
- Enable RSS: Use this checkbox to enable or disable an RSS Feed for the Listing / Calendar. Checking this option puts an RSS icon at the bottom of the Membership listing and allows users to sign up to automatically receive the RSS feed of this information.
- Enable Custom XML:Enables you to reuse text. For Admin use only. This enables client developers to define their own custom XML output for this Listing / Calendar. This option only appears on the web site to authorized administrators.
- NOTE: Additional training is required to utilize this custom API capability. Contact your Customer Success Manager if your organization is interested in developing an application to utilize this capability.
- Filter Options: Selecting one or more of these options will put a drop down menu at the top of the Membership Listing to allow you to filter the campaigns that are shown.
- Show Date Filter: Filter campaigns by date. Provides users the ability filter the Listing / Calendar by weekly or monthly views. This also uses the Enable Rolling Dates setting above.
- Show Content Filter: Filter campaigns for specific content. Provides users the ability to filter the Listing / Calendar content by the various Content Types that are included in this particular Listing / Calendar.
- Show Archive Filter: Filter archived information. Provide users a dropdown filter for retrieving archive content. The admin view of this filter includes any future items to be published at a later date.
- Show Title: Selecting this option puts the page title above the Membership Listing or allows you to enter a custom title using the content editor. Use this option and custom tokens to format the heading of the Listing. The available tokens are in the Tokens dropdown embedded in the content Editor. These tokens will display a data range based on whether the Enable rolling dates setting is on or off.
If on, then the date range will be from today's date to 30 (or 7) days out.
If off, then the date range will be just for that current month (or week).
The short or long version of the token refer to the display as 12/14/08, or as December 14, 2008.
3. Content Options: Select the Content Type for your module.
- Content Types: Use the multi-select listbox to identify which of the available Content Types that you would like automatically included in this Listing / Calendar. Use the Ctrl or shift keys to select / de-select multiple items in this list.
4. Click Save and then Load Content.
Manage Article Sort Order
1. If you set the Order By: to Custom, you will see. Clicking on this icon allows you to edit the order of the campaigns.
2. Click on the item and use the ‘Move’ direction buttons to arrange the campaigns.
3. Click Save.