Board/Directors Page

RYO Membership Directory Plugin Administrator Manual
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One special option which might fit your needs is the capability to create a special page for a governing board or committee.

We call it the "Board of Directors page," but it might as easily be class officers, honorary members, or top achievers.

You'll set up this page much like the others, but with a couple of special considerations.

Who gets listed?

The members listed on the Board/Directors Page are those who have an entry in the "Officer" field. This is edited by the administrator to control who gets listed.

We suggest you make entries there like 1President, 2Vice-President, 3Secretary, 5Board Member, 9Manager.

Here's why:

• Entries will be sorted by the Officer field. By placing one digit at the front of the field, you control the order, so the president goes at the top, and the manager at the bottom.
• You can have multiple entries with the same entry, so if you have 6 board members who don't hold special office, make them 5Board and they'll all list together.
• The standard boardtemplate will display the office field but will omit the first character. That means the entry 1President will display as, simply, President.

Can I change the copy by each member?

You can make a special entry in their profile under Admin Notes.

The standard listtemplate9 will display Admin Notes instead of Profile copy if an entry has been made in Admin Notes. If no entry is made, then the Profile Copy will be used.

Creating the Board of Directors or Special Group Page

The Board/Directors Page is created with the [boarddirectory] shortcode.

At its simplest, you can create a Page and just enter this shortcode:

[boarddirectory]

This will display the search listing with our standard format. You may modify that somewhat by specifying special attributes within the [boarddirectory] notation, as in :

[boarddirectory attribute1=value attribute2="Value of more than one word"]

Note that if you're assigning more than one word as a value, the value must be enclosed in quotation marks.

Each directory has three separate "views" which you control:

1. The "Directory View" is the initial page seen by a guest. For the Board/Directors Page, it's a list of members.
2. The "Search View" is the list of members seen after a search request, either a keyword request or a category click. This normally does not apply to the Board/Directors Page.
3. The "Detail View" is the detailed information displayed about a single member after clicking that members listing in a directory list or search results list.

As far as WordPress is concerned this all happens on one Page. In practice, that one Page shows a lot of different information.

Use these attributes to customize your Directory:

None of these need to be used unless you want to change the way your directory is put together. The standard directory is already set up in the software.

• top: Set this to change the text that appears at the top of the page.

Appearance of the Directory View:

• directoryview: Set this to the name of the list template you want to display each record in the directory listing. Usually listtemplate9 for the Board/Directors Page.
• perpage: Set this to the number of entries you want to display per page.

Appearance of the Detail View, a Member's Detail Page:

• detailview: Set this to the name of the detail template you want to display the full member profile when someone clicks on a directory listing. Typically detailtemplate1

Here's an example. Note that you only need to set the attributes you want to change.

[boarddirectory
top="Click on the Board Member's name for more details."]

Note: You can only create ONE of these special Pages, as it's based on that one special "Office" field in the database.

Template Layouts for Profile Display:

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