Add "Filtering" Capability to Contributor Block
under review
Len Smith
Add a display "Filtering" capability to the Contributor Block, similar to the way filtering is implements for Events.
The use case here is when a church has numerous Contributors displayed on their website, and they want the default display to show all contributors alphabetically. Adding a "Filtering" capability would then allow a site's user to decide what group (Category) they want to display. For example, Pastoral Staff, Administration, Elders or Governance Board, etc.
Below is an associated request.
Paul Cox
under review
Paul Cox
Hey Len Smith in my experience people don't navigate staff sections that way. What you could do though is use separate Team Blocks for each "category" and then use Anchor links to jump down the page to that section.
I haven't found that people go to a staff page and then filter. Instead they would go to the Kids page and have the staff for Kids be on that page. That is the common pattern that we see in our data. Does that work for you?
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Brian Motte
Paul Cox That is how we use it right now, and it will definitely work. But what I am suggesting is much like the events or sermon filtering system. That way you can place a "team" section on a page, such as the youth page and choose the tags(Youth, Creekside Campus) that should display on that page. Then when you add a contributer to the cms they would auto display on the pages automatically. That way you dont have to go and manually add them or remove them from many pages on the website when someone joins staff or leaves staff. Does that make any sense?
Paul Cox
Brian Motte: I get it! Thank you for this explanation. You'd likely lose the ability to control the order of the staff. Would that be an issue for you?
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Brian Motte
Paul Cox I realize that developing one feature will make another go away. I just thought it would be a helpful idea to suggest for consideration, as I would like that feature, and thought others might as well. We order our staff by alphabetical order so losing the ability to order them would not really be a problem for us. But I understand if it is not a feature request that would be developed, but if it were I would use it.