Best Practice to Adding Groups for a Coallition

[gaboayala]

Hey friends, I have a question about Magic Links. We want to create a link for our Coalition so people can report their groups. We have not created users for everyone, and those who have a user always forget their credentials. So Magic Links could help us a lot. I wonder what the best practices are to share a Magic Link with a group of 30 people so they can add new groups. We have a few fields selected, like: name, the type of group, start date, star date as a church, end date, member count, leader count, parent group, peer group, child group, address (I guess this will help to find it on the metrcis map?), and comment (hopefully they will add here the name of the leader, and will give us an idea of who need users)
Any suggestions or ideas?
Thanks.

[kodinkat]

@gaboayala - Good to hear from you.

Within the Magic Link Plugin, we have the concept of Link Objects; which enable you to create Magic Links to address different requirements.

In your case, you will need to create a Link Object; which uses the User Group Updates Magic Link Type. Ensure the Support creating new items option is enabled.

From there, you will then need to assign the various users within your coalition, to the Link Object.

To manage the refreshing and sending out of Magic Links, see the Scheduling Documentation.

The coalition users will then be able to update any assigned groups; as well as creating new ones, from their respective Magic Links.

I hope this helps!

[kodinkat]

@gaboayala - Following on from my previous response, you may find it worthwhile, to explore Post Connections Template Types; which may be better suited for providing Magic Links to Post Contacts, who do not have user system accounts.

Once the Post Connections template has been created, it can then be referenced from within a Link Object.

Post Contacts can then access the Magic Link and update existing groups, or create new ones as required.

[gaboayala]

@kodinkat thank you for the info. It does help.
Maybe, I will create a user for each region of the country so that way people can update what’s happening around them, and it’s easier to navigate.