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1. The first tab is General and this is where you can amend your u3a website
name if necessary. It is also where you can set who can see the toolbar at
the top of the page. If the box is not checked then only Admin can see the
toolbar.

2. The second tab is Groups and this gives you control over group settings.
You can choose the generic term for the person who heads your groups
according to your u3a custom. Some u3as use the word Convenor and
some use Leader or another term. You can choose which term is used by
your u3a. When describing groups some say faculties and some say
categories. You can choose what displays on the group such as people
related to job titles and cost of activities. There is a choice for group
listings and whether you want the list sorted or not sorted. If you choose,
on the Group page, to list your groups alphabetically the system will
change the list to category (or faculty) if the list is long. To prevent this
you need to set the maximum group list number to a number in excess of
the number of groups that you have. 999 is usually enough. This is also
the area where you can cloak and uncloak email addresses so that a
member or visitor can make email contact to what seems to be a group
address. The mail is actually sent to the nominated leader’s address but
the sender does not see this address.

3. The third tab is venues and enables you to set any optional fields to
appear or not.
4. The fourth tab gives you control over the content of the Events page as
well as the date and time display attributes. It enables you to show all
Events including Group events and activities or just main Meetings events.

If you change any Settings in this section then please don’t forget to save them
or they won’t take effect. If you make changes on one tab, you must save these
settings before switching to a different tab within the u3a Settings panel..

Tools
We haven’t yet looked at the Tools menu on the Dashboard. Here is a list of what
they are and what they do. Using these tools is quite advanced so it is
recommended that you don’t use them unless you know what you are doing.
Your Migrator can help you to set these up if you need such help.

1. The Import and Export sub-menus provide some vary basic facilities for
moving data between WordPress sites but are unlikely to be relevant to
most u3as. They should not be considered as a backup mechanism.
When working on 'Local' you can use the export facility provided by 'Local'
to create a complete backup of a site you are working on. On production
sites, comprehensive daily backup facilities are provided as standard.
2. When working on 'Local' you should ignore the Site Health section as it is
really only relevant on "live" sites. In general you should also ignore this

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