Babel Fish - Offer to translate the page (no settings)
Club News - Fetch a hiererarchy of news begining with the organisational unit that the user is logged in to and working up to District news and finally site-wide news.
Data are collected by looking in the selected forum for postings that are marked 'NEWS'.
Block parm: Enter an 'S' to cause the news to scroll in a marquee box.
Block parm: Enter an 'O' to select club news news Only.
Club Welcome - Fetch a hiererarchy of information begining with the organisational unit that the user is logged in to and working up to District and finally site-wide.
Data are collected by looking in selected forum for postings that are marked 'Welcome'.
(See also 'Page_welcome')
Block parm: You may enter an 'O' or an 'E' to select Odd or Even topics only for this post (create another block in the next column to fetch the others)
If you enter a number in the block parm it will be used to select ONLY the messages posted with that 'portal content' posting type in the forum.
Block Value: If you enter a forum number here it will over-ride the hierarchy and ONLY display the 'Welcome' messages from this one forum.
(Use this to create a page with dynamic content - for example 'All about Our Club' or a page of information about the next Conference.)
Committee
This blockfile lists the club committee details (similar presentation to the club data page)
Block parm: Enter any value here to include TM awards next to members names (eg CC, CL)
Block Value: You may select the committe members that will be listed by entering a list of codes here separated by commas or leave it blank to select them all:
1 = 'President'
2 = 'Vice President Education'
3 = 'Vice President Membership'
4 = 'Vice President Public Relations'
5 = 'Secretary'
6 = 'Treasurer'
7 = 'Sergeant at Arms'
20 = 'Club Webmaster'
21 = 'Newsletter Editor'
30 = 'Special Event Chairman'
31 = 'Membership Campaign Chairman'
32 = 'PR Campaign Chairman'
Conference - This blockfile presents Conference News with a link to see the full conference information or post to the Conference Q&A discussion
Data are collected by looking in the selected forum for postings that are marked 'News'.
Block parm: Enter an 'S' if you want the conference news to scroll
Block Value: Enter a forum number here for the Conference news and discussion. If you wish to select conference news from more than one forum - separate the forum numbers with commas.
District - This blockfile is best enabled for the site as a whole and will present all the training or contest events that are planned in the calendar on a single summary page.
Block parm: Enter the District number here. You may leave it blank if your installation has a default District entered in the Admin Control Panel. Otherwise events for the District of the currently logged in club is reported.
Block Value: Enter a 'T' for training events, a 'C' for contests or 'E' for exec meetings.
A full list of Divisions and Areas will shown with any matching events in the last 30 days or next 150 days.
The webmaster may build pages for Training and Contests and enter the page numbers in "Portal Page for Contest Events" and "Portal Page for District Training Events" in the ACP to cause these items to list in the menu bar "Information" for the whole site.
E_WOTD - This blockfile presents a javascript Word of The Day with special print options - prepared by Toastmasters at easy-Speak.org.
Forum - This blockfile presents recent postings from a forum nominated by the webmaster.
FreeRice - This blockfile links to FreeRice.org which offers a vocabulary game and contributes rice to the UN world food program.
Help Wanted - This blockfile presents the title and author of recent postings from a forum nominated by the webmaster.
At least one posting, up to the portal defined maximum as long as they are more recent than old_postings.
Block parm: Enter an 'S' if you want the block to scroll
KB Article - This blockfile will import the text for a Knowledgebase article.
Block Value: Enter the KB article number that you wish to display. You may select more than one article and separate them by commas.
Maps2 - This blockfile calculates the positions and presents a Google Earth map showing all the clubs.
Block Value: Enter your club_id if you want the map to be centered on your location.
Maps - This blockfile calculates the positions and presents a clickable map showing all the clubs in a Division.
(Not currently in use)
Nav_kb - This blockfile displays a list of the top level Knowledgebase categories.
Nav_tm - This blockfile displays the TM navigation box.
It will show the District, Divisions and Area for your club.
If a club is selected it will show the link to neighbouring clubs.
The 'home' link will show the portal default page.
Find a club - using the Google maps
Top level categories from the Knowledgebase
Block parm: Any data entered will extend the menu options displayed
Newest_pic - This blockfile looks for the most recent picture. If it doesn't find anything specific in the last four months it looks site-wide.
Block_value: If you enter a picture category it will always look there - otherwise it looks first at the category for the club.
Block parm: If you enter a 'P' in the Block Parm and the picture number (pic_id) in the Block Value the program will look for that specific picture ignoring how old it is.
(You may see the pic_id by hovering over the thumbnail while browsing the picture category in the Photo album)
Next_meeting - This blockfile is only meaningful for clubs using easy-Speak data management - it displays details of the next meeting using the javascript demonstrated on the club data page.
Next_meetings - This blockfile looks for the next club meetings in the calendar and displays them
Block value: If you enter a 'L' here the program will include meetings for all local clubs (defined by the distance setting in your Club Control Panel) plus events for your Area, Division and District.
Alternatively, list the club_id for neighbouring clubs in the block_value and the program will include their meetings. (Separate the club_ids with commas)
If you enter a 'T' here the program will list Training events ONLY (for the whole District) - good to display officer training.
Block value: Enter a value here to limit the number of future meetings displayed.
If you enter an 'N' here the block will not display the meeting title.
Page_welcome - This is a copy of Club Welcome but has a larger font for the titles
Online_users - This blockfile displays a list of users that are on-line
On This Day - This blockfile presents a link to reference.com for events that happened on the current day.
OneLook - This blockfile will search for the entered word in the dictionaries at onelook.com.
Pageset - This blockfile displays a navigation box including links to all the pages in a set.
Block parm: Any data entered will extend the menu options displayed
Block Value: Enter a pageset number here to include those pages in the navigation
Poll - (Not currently configured)
QOTD - This blockfile presents a javascript Quote of The Day from Said-what?.
Quote_search - This blockfile presents a searchbox to find quotes on quotationspage.com.
Quote - This blockfile presents a quote selected at random from the site quotes file.
Recent KB - This blockfile presents the category, title and author of recent updates to the Knowledgebase.
Recent Topics - This blockfile presents the forum, title and author of recent postings in the forums.
Postings are only listed if the user has system permission to read them.
At least one posting, up to the portal defined maximum as long as they are more recent than old_postings.
Forums may be specifically included by listing in the block value.
Block parm: Enter an 'S' if you want the block to scroll
Block value: Enter a comma delimited list of forums that will ALWAYS be included.
Search - This blockfile presents a simple forum-search option.
Statistics - This blockfile presents a list of site stats. User counts, newest user etc.
User - This blockfile presents information for the logged on user.
Block value: Enter a comma delimited list to select the data that will be included for a logged on user:
1 - Avatar Image (or photo if that exists and the avatar doesn't)
2 - Profile photo (or avatar if that exists and the profile photo doesn't)
3 - Time and date of last visit
4 - List the user's posts etc
5 - List clubs associated with the user
Web Ring - This blockfile presents the Webring navigation box.
Word Search - This blockfile will search for the entered word on dictionary.com, thesaurus.com and reference.com.
WOTD - This blockfile presents a javascript Word of The Day from dictionary.com.
Yahoo - This blockfile present an HTML page with links to a Yahoo! discussion group.