How does this site work?

This page provides a conceptual overview of the PBC web site. The two main areas of the site are communities and the message library.

Communities

A community consists of a group of people (members). Each community has an email list for the members, a calendar of events and one or more pages of information.

Any user on the site can initiate a new community. In order for this community to become active, one of the site administrators must complete the registration process. The site administrator will ensure that the content or purpose of the community is acceptable for the site and that the user creating the community understands the responsibilities of administering the community.

Members

People who have already created an account on the site can request to join a community. The community administrator will be notified of this request and then complete the process of adding the member.

The administrator of a community can add existing users on the site as well as create new user accounts and add them to the community.

Calendar

Each community is provided with a calendar. The calendar consists of events. Single events can be duplicated to many dates. Once created, an event duplicate is an independent event and changes to it are not propagated to other event duplicates.

Dynamic Pages

The content pages for communities, users, events and messages all share the same content capabilities. These pages can have text blocks, files uploaded and linked to, photo albums and video elements. Pages can also have sub-pages.

Comments

There is a generic comment facility for any page. If the page has enabled it, a comment area is provided at the end of the page. In this area, existing comments are displayed and a button enables a logged in user to add a comment.

Privacy

Content on the site falls into two categories:

Public

Viewable by anyone, modifiable only by an administrator.

Private

Viewable only by community members but editable by any community member.

Individual pages can be marked public or private. So, a public community can have private pages.

Frequently Asked Questions

When I attempt to re-order something using the drag handle () it doesn't work

You need to slide your mouse to the right so it is over the area that the text or image should move to.