As your organization’s members sign up to contribute through committee activities and get involved in activities, use tags to organize your membership, identify affinity groups, and determine who can or cannot participate in, use, or view specific aspects of your site.
Tags consist of two fundamental types, based on the actions that create them. Your website’s software automatically creates a tag every time you create a committee, and places an asterisk in front of the tag name to identify it. For security reasons, you cannot apply a committee tag to a person who is not assigned to, approved for, or automatically accepted as a member of that committee, depending on which way the committee is set up to accept new members. In addition to these automatically created tags, website administrators can create an unlimited number of tags to designate anything from members of a book club to people with an interest in specific volunteer activities.
In addition to identifying individual members by their organizational roles and involvements, tags also provide a way to segment access to documents and features. Each time you create a website page, you can restrict its visibility to members with one or more specific tags. When you upload documents, you can use tags to make them visible only to those individuals with a defined reason to view them. As you set up dues and fees, events and calendars, amenity usage and more, you can allow all residents to see and interact with these features, or limit their availability, simply by using tags.
Because you can set up your website to enable multiple people in a single household to sign up individually for site membership, you can use tags to avoid invoicing multiple people at one address for fees or services that apply to entire households. Create a tag to designate the billed party for each address, sort your membership list by address, and apply the tag to one person at each location.
For information on how to implement tags in individual website features, read the help topic for the feature that interests you.