As a Making Music Platform administrator, you can create a mailing list from a number of pages on your website:
- From the Mailing List page, via the Add new mailing list button in the top-right corner of the page
- From the Member Groupings page, via the Create mailing list link displayed next to each member grouping's name.
- From a Committee/team's page, via the Create mailing list link displayed beneath the committee/team's name at the top of the page.
All of the above options will take you to the Mailing list Details page:
The fields on this page are described below:
Name
The name of your new mailing list, such as "Members mailing list", or "Website Team mailing list".
Email address
This is the address by which your email address will be identified - the email address that people will send emails to, in order to have their email distributed to everyone on the list (as described above). Note that you are creating a new email address at this point, so you must invent a new email address at this point, one that doesn't already exist. For example, if the mailing list is for the "Website Team", then you could enter something like 'webteam' into the Email address box, which will create the mailing list with an email address something like webteam@mygroup.com.
Password
Invent a password for the mailing list, and enter it here. The password will be used during the moderation process (see below).
The next set of fields (shown below) allow us to specify what collection of members this mailing list is based on (if any). Your mailing list will either be for a Member grouping, a Committee/team, or neither (non-members of your organisation, such as supporters/friends).
Member Grouping
If you are creating a mailing list for one of your member groupings, select the name of the member grouping from the drop-down list, as shown below...
Note: If you are creating this mailing list via a Create mailing list link on the Member Groupings page, then the name of the member grouping will be already pre-selected.
Committee/team
If you are creating a mailing list for a Committee/team, select the name of the Committee/team from the drop-down list, as shown below...
Note: If you are creating this mailing list via a Create mailing list link on a Committee or Team's page, then the name of the committee/team field will be already pre-selected.
"Non-members"
Tick this box if you are creating a mailing list that will include people that are not members of your group, such as supporters, friends, etc.
Regular member access
This specifies who is allowed to know of the existence of this new mailing list, as follows...
Display Ranking
The number entered for the Display Ranking specifies in what sequence this mailing list will appear in the list of mailing lists on the Mailing Lists page. Mailing lists with lower display rankings (e.g. 10) will appear before higher display rankings (e.g. 80).
