District Settings

Introduction

The District Settings page defines Districts, their groups and the group's sections, within your County. This is not relevant for District sites.

The settings here populate the Districts and Groups pages on the website's main menu.

Additionally, if a District also has a Scouts Online website, their details and group details will be presented from their own website, thus removing duplication of effort or contrasting information - changes made by the District or their Groups to their details will automatically by propagated to your County website.

NB. If one of your Districts, or Groups within a District, does have a Scouts Online website, please contact Scouts Online to add them to your County.



Districts List

On entry to the screen, you will be presented with a list of Districts within your County.

District Settings List

When Districts are listed here, clicking the [amend] button will move to the District's Details.

Clicking [add new] will add a new District and open up the details page.



District Details

District Details

The page displayed above, holds header details of the District, along with the details of the District's Groups.


The Name field holds District's name. This should be suffixed with "District".

The Moto/Sub-Header field holds the District's website sub-header. This is only relevant if the District also uses a Scouts Online website.

The Sub-Domain and Full Domain fields relate to the District's website. Again, the Sub-Domain is only used if the District has a Scouts Online website


If the District doesn't have a physical address, please specify your County office address.

Address Line 1 may hold a HQ/campsite name or your street address.

Where line 1 is used for a HQ name, Address Line 2 should contain your street address.

The Locality and Town should be populated with either Locality/Town or your village/County, whichever best describes the location.

The County is not a mandatory field, but you may populate this where it is relevant to the address and the County name has not already been used in the Town field.

Postcode is also mandatory and should hold the postcode.

Where the District has their own Scouts Online website, the Map Longitude and Map Latitude may be used by search engines.


The Main Contact field allows selection of a user, setup in User Management, to be assigned as the designated contact listed in the District page from the main menu.


The social media fields are only relevant if the District has their own Scouts Online website.


You may find out more about the functionality included in each Package Level at www.ScoutsOnline.co.uk. If you would like to trial a different package level, please contact us.


Clicking the [save changes] button will save updates and return to the Districts list.

Clicking [delete record] will delete the District from your County and return to the Districts list.

Clicking [back to district list] will ignore changes and return to the Districts list.



District Groups List

Clicking the Groups tab will present you with a list of Groups within the District.

District Groups List

When District Groups are listed, clicking the [amend] button will open up that group's details.

Clicking [add new] will add a new Group to the District and open up the details page.


As with the District details, the Group Details are also used for group websites. If a group within the District has a Scouts Online website, they may add their website to the District and/or County by selecting them in the County Site and District Site drop-down-lists on their website's Group Details admin page. The group will then show up in this list.



District Group Header Details

District Group Header Details

The format of the Full Name is number+Area+churchname+"Scout Group". E.g. 1st London (St. Paul's) Scout Group.

The Group No should be in the format of 1st.

Area is a mandatory field.

The remaining Group fields are documented in the Group Details.



District Groups Sections List

Clicking Group Section Details tab will display to a list of the Group's sections.

District Group Sections List

The section details are used to build the Groups page on the main menu.

Where the list is already populated, clicking [amend] will open up the section's details.

Clicking [add new] will create a new section.



District Groups Section Details

Clicking Group Section Details tab will move to a list of the Group's sections.

District Group Sections List

Each 'standard' Scout Group needs to have a 'Group' section as well as Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. The 'Group' section is used as a holding place for the Group's address, Longitude and Latitude fields used to position the Group on the Groups page map. An example 'Group' section is depicted above.

A 'Group' section is NOT required if the group contains just an Explorer Scout and/or Scout Network Unit which should have their own address.


Each of the Group's sections should be setup here. These will populate the meeting times, on the Groups page on the main menu. The Section fields are explained in the Section Details documentation.

NB. County based Scout Network/Scout Active Support sections should be added under the Admin, Group Details page.


Clicking the [save changes] button will save updates and return to the sections list.

Clicking [cancel] will return to the sections list.

Clicking [delete record] will delete the section and return to the sections list.