Setup
Multi-parish portal privacy settings and newsletter consents
In multi-parish portals, you can centrally define privacy policies and newsletter consents and distribute them to all connected parishes. Local parishes adopt the central specifications automatically and can add their own extensions if necessary. Relevant for portal host installations and portal participant installations Benefits of central privacy settings Enforce uniform data protection standards across all parishes of a portal (relevant for GDPR) Maintain newsletter consents centrFew readersGetting started with ChurchDesk Portal
The ChurchDesk Portal is made to help deaneries, districts and dioceses tell the world what is going on in your churches of interesting activities. One must know what happens in the church to participate in the church community. The Portal makes it is easy to create a single overview of all of the activities across all churches on any of your websites Parishes will only need to make sure that their ChurchDesk calendar is updated - everything else happens automatically The Portal alsFew readersHow should my churches match their event categories to the Portal categories?
Once you have established the event categories, that you want to make available in your ChurchDesk Portal for visitors to filter all of the events across the churches, then the churches can match their event categories to the Portal categories. It is very simple: The church goes to their own ChurchDesk Here they go ChurchDesk Settings and select Categories Then for each of event categories that the church wants to share with the Portal, clic edit and in the field at the bottom of tFew readersHow to add churches to your Portal
The ChurchDesk Portal is able to present events from your churches on any of your websites as well as making reports for easy sharing of events across your deanery, district or diocese. How to add a church to your Portal Already after you have purchased the ChurchDesk Portal we will help to make sure that all your churches get a ChurchDesk calendar for free if the are not already using ChurchDesk. We will also add all of your churches to your Portal by connecting their ChurchDesk calendaFew readersHow to define event categories in your Portal
When you want to show which events takes place across your deanery, district or diocese you would want visitors to be able to filter the events based on what kind of event it is. Therefore you need to create the event categories that you want to allow visitors to use for filtering all of your exciting events. Go to categories in the Portal module Here you'll have the option to create a category in the top right hand side For each category you will have to give the event category aFew readers
Use of the Portal
Example: Create a Portal page on your ChurchDesk website
In this article, you'll learn how to create a beautiful portal page. In the example, we've made we're highlighting popular events from parishes within our portal to motivate visitors to explore similar events within the portal itself. _Note: To complete this guide we assume that you've already set up your portal (created categories and asked some of your parishes to link their catFew readersOrganisational Structure in the Portal
The organisation structure in the ChurchDesk Portal shows all organisations in your Portal as a tree. You can see at a glance which parishes belong to which level, and you can model the structure to reflect your organisation — for example with deaneries, pastoral areas or benefices. What you can do with the organisation structure See all organisations in your Portal in a clear hierarchy. Search for an organisation and see its full path in the tree. Move organisations to a diffFew readersShow events on your website with Portal Plugins
What is a plugin? With the Portal you can show events from across your deanery, district or diocese in several ways - either as a feed or via search. A plugin is essentially an iframe that you can embed into any website - in other word you can turn any website into a portal for all the activities from all the parishes. Event feeds This plugin type lets you highlight certain events on your website. What events you wanna highlight is based on what categories or which location you chooseFew readers