Configuring the Members Plugin¶
When you edit the Members plugin, the “Plugin” tab lets you choose the field to be rendered:
The two lists allow to choose which fields should be shown in the webpage. The list on the right-hand side shows all possible fields whereas the list on the left-hand side shows your own selection for the webpage. Click on a field in the list on the right-hand side to automatically add it to the list on the left-hand side.
Three special items are present at the beginning of the list:
- [space]
This item will add a blank space in the output, typically used to output the first name and the last name together on the same line, or the postal code and the city.
- [new line]
This item will render the next field on a new line.
- [new column]
This item will render the next field in a new table column. Having an additional column means that an additional heading will be needed to define its title.
Changing the Order of Fields¶
To move one or more fields to another position in the list on the left-hand side and use one of the buttons between the two lists to reorder them:
- Button
This button moves the selected items to the top of the list.
- Button
This button moves the selected items one position up in the list.
- Button
This button moves the selected items one position down in the list.
- Button
This button moves the selected items to the end of the list.
- Button
This button removes the selected items from the list.
Changing the Table Headings¶
Each time you add a special list item [new column], a new column is created and as such a new heading is required for the resulting table. The field below the list of fields to be displayed lets you enter a label for each table column. Column headings are separated by a double pipe character (||).
vCard Download link¶
vCard is a file format standard for electronic business cards. LionsBase allows you to show a download button 
to retrieve a member’s profile as vCard and thus easily import details into your personal address book.
Question: Why do I see strange characters instead of accentuated letters when opening the vCard in Microsoft Outlook? Example:
Short Answer: Microsoft Windows does not properly handle the platform-agnostic encoding LionsBase is using. As such, when LionsBase detects a Microsoft Windows operating system, it changes the vCard encoding to be readable when you download the vCard. Strange characters may be seen when exchanging vCard between platforms, e.g., when downloading the vCard on Mac OS X and opening it on Microsoft Windows, in Outlook lower than version 2010. Solution is to download again the vCard from your own computer.
Long Answer: Pre-2010 versions of Microsoft Outlook do not properly recognize the UTF-8 encoding that is widely used nowadays and allows characters in any script (latin, slavic, cyrillic, …) to be stored. In order to try to be as much compatible as possible, the download button does not behave the same when you use it from a computer running Microsoft Windows or if you are using Mac OS X or a Linux operating system. When Microsoft Windows is detected, the standard UTF-8-encoded vCard is converted to a character set compatible with older versions of Outlook. So if you are seeing strange characters, you may have downloaded the vCard from another platform than Microsoft Windows and you are thus trying to open a file that is unfortunately not compatible with your platform.
Adding or Modifying Members¶
The responsible for managing members is the Club LionsBase Master. The process of managing members is described in the chapter Managing Member Information.
Adding a new Members Plugin¶
Create a new content element and choose to insert a “General Plugin”:
Then it is considered a good practice to give a title to your content element. In order for the title you give not being rendered on your website, you may change its type to “hidden”:
Finally, under the “Plugin” tab, choose the Members plugin:
Then proceed as usual to configure the plugin.