This guide describes the concepts of the membertility Organization Module.
positions <position>
are assigned to members <member>
for a variety of purposes. membertility tracks who is currently in each position
, which is used by the Meetings Module
, Task Module
, etc.
When someone new needs to be added to the system, the following should be done:
- send suitable welcome message which describes the system, why they're being added, and that they'll be receiving password reset instructions
- create the member using
Members view
, assigning appropriatesecurity roles <security role>
andinterests <interest>
- give new member their position(s) using
Position Wizard
The period during which a member
spends time in a position
is known as a term
. The Position Dates view
has a row for each term
, with the Member, Position, Start Date, and Finish Date specified. If the term
is current, no Finish Date is specified.
For easy management of member's <member>
terms <term>
in positions <position>
, use the Position Wizard
. With the Position Wizard
, you select an Effective Date for a change in terms <term>
for one or more members <member>
for a given position
. The wizard takes care of updating all the necessary term
records which can be seen using the Position Dates view
.
To facilitate assignment of sets of task groups <task group>
to individual members <member>
, task groups <task group>
may be assigned to one or more positions <position>
using Positions view
, and in turn members <member>
are assigned one or more positions <position>
using Position Wizard
. The Task Hierarchy
gives details on these relationships, and the Task Module
has complete details about task
management.
Tags are used for the following. Tags are defined in the Tags view
, assigned in the view in the Based On column below, and used for the Used For purpose in the View column below.
Used For | Based On | View |
---|---|---|
Meeting Invitations | Tags view , Positions view |
Meetings view |
Meeting Voting | Tags view , Positions view |
Meetings view |
Sometimes it may be desirable to send emails to members <member>
in the organization
using regular email. For this the Distribution List view
can be used to download a csv file of email addresses.