Adding and Managing Categories in Announcements

Adding and Managing Categories in Announcements

Summary

This SOP provides a step-by-step guide on how to add, edit, and manage categories for announcements within the Tent Apps platform. It explains the process of organizing announcements by creating specific categories and assigning them accordingly.

Overview

  1. Log in to the Tent Apps backend.
  2. Navigate to the 'Announcements' section and click on 'Categories.'
  3. To add a new category, click on 'Add New Category' under the desired parent category, such as 'Adult Small Groups.'
  4. Enter the name of the new category (e.g., 'Wednesday') and save it.
  5. To add another category, repeat steps 3 and 4 with a different name (e.g., 'Other').
  6. To edit an existing category, find the category in the list and click 'Quick Edit' to change the name or order.
  7. Once categories are set, navigate to 'All Announcements' to assign announcements to the newly created categories.
  8. Select announcements that you want to categorize (e.g., 'Epic of Eden') and click 'Quick Edit' to assign them to the chosen category (e.g., 'Wednesday').
  9. After categorizing announcements, go to the page you are working on and click 'Enable Visual Builder.'
  10. In the visual builder, duplicate the section containing announcements as needed.
  11. Adjust the settings of the duplicated sections to display only the relevant categories (e.g., uncheck 'Adult Small Groups' to show only 'Wednesday' announcements).
  12. Rename sections as necessary (e.g., 'Wednesday Groups' or 'Other Small Groups') and save changes.
  13. Organize the sections by dragging and dropping them as needed on the page.
  14. Review and make any final adjustments to ensure categories and announcements are displayed correctly.
  15. If assistance is needed, contact Tent Apps support at support@tentapps.com.

Original Transcript

Hey everyone, in today's video tutorial sometimes you want to add different categories to a listing of groups or announcements or something like that So I'm gonna show you how to do that So in the back end, you can go over to your announcements and click on categories and then you can add a new category here underneath adult small groups like I just added Wednesday underneath here Now let me show you how you can add something else So if you wanted to add like, um, maybe like, uh, let's see monthly layer. We'll just say other there and you can put the pant categories adult small groups and that will put other underneath adult small groups. Now if you want to come in and add your own or do something different, that's how you add it. Now you can also edit these as well. So if you wanted to change this other and change the way it's ordered, you could do a quick edit here and just change the wording there. Now a couple of things here, once you have that, you'll then go over to all announcements and you'll find those that you want to be Wednesday ones. So you could assign, I'll just assign some of these to the Wednesday. And then if you want some to not be Wednesday, it looks like all of these are Wednesday ones, but we'll just assign one is non Wednesday just for this. So let me just show you how we could do that. So we can go find those groups. So here's like Epic of Eden. This is adult small groups. So we could just come in here and do a quick edit and we could say this is a Wednesday one. And then we could update and I'll I'll just go through and do those for the others here. All right, so now that you have those done, you can go to the page that you're working on. We're just gonna click on enable visual builder here. All right, now that we have this visual builder going here, what we can do is we can come over and maybe duplicate this whole section so we could say, let's duplicate that and let's duplicate this. So now we have two of those, we'll drag one up. So we can put this as Wednesday groups and then on here we can click on the settings for this display area and we're going to say wouldn't we want a display and no longer do we want all adult small groups. We want this one just to be Wednesday that we just did. So we'll uncheck adult small groups and this is just going to show Wednesday ones and then we can come down here and we could maybe say other small groups here. And then we could change this one settings to be other. So there's other there. And uncheck adult small groups. And this will just set one of them, I think, to be other groups. So now you sort of have two sections there that will show people that information. So even if you're like, I want the other groups to be underneath Wednesdays, you could move those down, maybe you don't need that information or whatever, you want to sort of drag and drop, remove around, you definitely can. I just want to show you how you can add new categories, adjust the categories, and make those show up here on a page. Let us know if you need any help. Thanks so much.

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