Set up your Group's Menu

To customize your Group menu, scroll to the bottom and click Edit Menu.

Step 1: Set Up Your Home Base

Customize your Home View

• The “General” chatroom is now your group's default home view or landing page.

• Easily choose another Home / landing page for your group by clicking “Edit Menu.” Click the Home icon on your preferred view to set it as the new default.

  

  Setting your Home View

Step 2: Configure Your Group Menu

1. Click Edit Menu in your Group Settings to configure your Group Menu. Easily add, remove, and rearrange different views in your Group Menu.

   • Add new views by clicking on the (+) icon on the view

   • Remove views by dragging them to the top of the Group Menu, where it says “Drag Here to remove from menu”

   • Rearrange views using the drag handle - drag and move widgets to specific locations in the context menu

2. Organize your content with container widgets

   • Create a container view to hold specific views, chat rooms, or even an individual post that they want to highlight

   • Create a container view by clicking “Add New View”

   • Click “Add Container”

     • Decide if this container is viewable only by admins or by all members

   • Add

     • Chat Rooms [existing chat rooms in your Group]

     • Custom Views [external link, post stream filter, collection of existing posts]

     • Members [of that Group]

     • Groups [that you are a member of]

     • Posts [chose from existing posts in the Group]

3. Use the “Add New View” button to create new Chat Rooms or Custom View, and to add Chat Rooms, Custom Views, Members, Groups, or Posts to the group menu

Step 3: Set up Chat Rooms

Chat rooms are manually created by a group steward. Hylo will no longer create a chat channel for every Topic.

1. Decide what chat rooms you want for your group [Note: Chat rooms are still connected to a topic and any posts that use that topic in that group will appear in the chat room if it exists]

2. Click on Edit Menu, navigate to the Chat view and click "Add new chat"

3. Delete existing chatrooms by clicking the drag handle and dragging the selected chatroom to the top, where it says "Drag here to remove from the menu"