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      • 👾Onboarding your Group
        • Setting Up Your Group/s on Hylo
        • Customizing Your Group in Group Settings
        • Group Agreements
        • Roles, Badges, and Responsibilities
        • Responsibilities and Permissions
        • Adjusting Group Privacy and Access Settings
        • Create Custom Views for your Group
        • Set up Group #Topics
        • Link Related & Nested Groups
        • Curate your Group's "Explore Page"
        • Populate Posts in your Group
        • Invite Group Members
      • Removing Members
      • Add/Remove Additional Moderators
      • Managing Join Requests
      • Export your Group Data
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      • Moderating Member Posts
      • Create an Announcement
      • Edit your Group's "Explore Page"
    • 🧞‍♀️List of Admin Privileges for Group Stewards
    • 🛡️Building Engagement in your Group
      • Foundations for Group Engagement
      • Creating a Plan for Group Engagement
      • Building Group Engagement
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    • My Home
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      • OpenTEAM <> Hylo
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  • Customization - Edit your Group Menu
  • Key Features
  • Home View - Your Group’s Landing Page
  • Chats
  • Members
  • Common Views
  • Custom Views
  • Setup Guide
  • All View
  • Container Widgets

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  1. Hylo User Manual

The Group Menu

The Group Menu is the lefthand menu used for navigation within groups. It is customizable by Group stewards, allowing them to create a curated menu directing members' attention to what matters most.

Customization - Edit your Group Menu

As a steward, you can fully customize the Group Menu directly in the interface. Click “Edit Menu” at the bottom of the menu to customize. Stewards can create new sections called Views (and groupings of views) that they can name and order.

Key Features

Home View - Your Group’s Landing Page

The “Home” chatroom is the default landing page. Group stewards can decide what they want this page to be by clicking Edit Menu below. Note: whatever you chose as the “Home” cannot be moved or reordered Choose which view serves as the group's default home [Click on the “Home” icon on the view that will serve as the Home / Landing page for our group]

  • Change it by clicking the home icon on any view

Chats

  • Lists all active chat rooms

  • Stewards can create new chat rooms via this view by clicking “Add New Chat”

  • Shows unread indicators

  • Can be rearranged or removed

Members

  • Appears by default in all new groups

  • Shows member names and avatars

  • Orders by Name or Location

  • Click a member to view their profile, or "View all members" for the directory

Common Views

  • Dynamically shows content types that exist in your group

  • Includes core views like Stream, Events, Projects, etc.

  • Drag views to this group while editing to add additional common views

Custom Views

  • When Editing your Group Menu, Click “Add New View” under add Custom Views to include external links, post stream filters, or a collection of existing posts

Setup Guide

  • Group stewards will see a widget including a set-up guide

  • Displays remaining Group setup tasks that need to be completed

  • Once tasks are completed, sections from the setup guide disappear

All View

  • Access every content type, view, and chat room

  • Find any content when needed

  • Complete catalog of group resources

Easily Add, remove, and rearrange different widgets

  • Scroll down to the bottom of the Group Menu and click “Edit Menu”

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

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

  • Rearrange views using the drag handle, drag and move widgets to specific locations

Container Widgets

Highlight specific content with Container Views

  • 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”

    • Select if this Container is viewable by Admins or Members

  • In a container view you can add:

    • Chatrooms [existing chatrooms 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]

Use “Add New View” to add Chatrooms, Custom Views, Members, Groups, or Posts to the context menu

Click Done Editing to save your results.

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