Global Settings Documentation

Introduction

This page does not apply to Scouts Online group websites - Please see Admin/Group Details.

The Global Settings page holds your main website settings.

These include your District and CountyCounty details, your website domain name, website look-and-feel settings, your location, default contact/membership contacts, social media account, and other website settings.

Use Cases

The following panels show specific tasks. Click on a panel to see the procedures.

Set Your DistrictCounty Name

Set your District and CountyCounty header fields.

Set your DistrictCounty header fields.

To do this, follow these steps:

  • Login with a Site Admin username and password
  • Open Admin/Global Settings
  • If your County has a Scouts Online website, select your county in the Parent County field
  • Leave the Parent County field blank
  • Enter your DistrictCounty name in the Name field
  • The Moto/Sub-Header is displayed on some of the home page layouts
  • Click Save Changes

Fig. 1: District names fields

Set Domain Name Fields

Add a domain name to your website.

There are two fields that define your domain name.

  • The Full Domain field is the public address of your website. If you have your own domain name and want to use it for your Scouts Online website, please contact us for instructions before changing this field. The field may include the "www." prefix, but shouldn't include http:// or https://
  • The Sub-Domain field holds a prefix to the .ScoutsOnline.co.uk domain to allow your website to be viewed without having to buy your own domain name. It is also a backup to your domain name and should not be removed or changed.
  • Once you've changed these fields, click Save Changes

Fig. 1: Domain Name Fields

Change Look-and-Feel

Change your website Theme, Home Page design, Footer bar layout and Country colours.

The cosmetic look-and-feel of your website is governed by four field.

Website Theme: These include Scouting colour palettes and styling.

Home Page Design: You can pick a home page layout that suits you. These are best matched with a Website Theme.

Footer Layout: Whether you want a simple footer bar for your website pages, or you'd like to customise it, there is a footer style to suit.

Country: While this controls other aspects of your website, like Country specific Scouting Role names, changing this field will set areas of your website to use country specific Scouting colours.

Once you've changed these fields, click Save Changes.

Fig. 1: Website Theme field

Fig. 2: Home Page Design field


Fig. 3: Footer Layout field


Fig. 4: Country field


Set Address & Contact Details

Set a physical address and contact form recipient detail for your website.

Set a physical address and contact form recipient detail for your website.

The address is shown in the footer bar at the bottom of every web page. The footer bar also includes hidden details for the latitude and longitude to help search engines show your website for geographic/local searches. It's therefore important to set the Map Latitude and Map Longitude fields to a location in the centre of your DistrictCounty. You can find your latitude and longitude figures using this Tech-Tip.

The Main Contact field is the default recipient of all contact forms on your website, although they can be altered for each individual Contact Form module - see here.

Only set the Membership Contact if you want application form emails to be sent to a different user

Once you've changed these fields, click Save Changes.

Fig. 1: Address and contact details

Social Media Accounts

Add social media feeds to your home page and social media links.

You can add Facebook and X/Twitter feeds to your home page, and add YouTube Channel, Instagram, Pinterest and two further links to your website.

Facebook Page: Enter your Facebook 'page' name. E.g. For facebook.com/ScoutAssociation, just enter 'ScoutAssociation'. This is used for the Facebook feed on the home page and as a link to your Facebook page. NB. It's not possible to add a feed for your Facebook page.

Facebook Feed: Tick this field to show your Facebook feed on the home page.

Twitter @Name: Enter your X/Twitter account name. E.g. For twitter.com/Scouts, just enter 'Scouts'.

Twitter Feed: Tick this field to show your X/Twitter feed on the home page.

YouTube Channel: If you have a YouTube channel to hold all your videos, add your channels name here. E.g. For youtube.com/UKScoutAssociation, just enter 'UKScoutAssociation'.

Instagram Name: For instagram.com/scouts, just enter 'scouts'. This will be displayed where your social media links are shown.

Pinterest Name: For pinterest.co.uk/ukscouting, just enter 'ukscouting'. This will be displayed where your social media links are shown.

Header Link 1 & 2 You can add two further links to websites, set the link name, website URL and select an image to display for the link.


The social media links and Header Links will be displayed are displayed in different places, depending on your website theme and Home Page Design.

Once you've changed these fields, click Save Changes.

Fig. 1: Social media and header link fields

Fig. 2: Social media links

Fig. 3: Facebook feed

Fig. 4: Twitter Feed

Set Additional Fields

Set other website behavioural fields.

Here are details of some additional fields that affect the way your website appears and operates.

  • Google Analytics 4: Gain insight into your website viewers and hits using Google Analytics. Once signed-up, enter your GA ID here.
  • Google Calendar: The google calendar fields allow you to import events from a google calendar into your website.
    NB. Scouts Online recommend that you create events inside the website, rather than use a google calendar, as the Scope of events can be set so that each event is publicised in events lists appropriate for their use, and they can be enhanced with more text, images, online bookings and more.
    If you need to show a google calendar on your website, Scouts Online suggest that you use Events List module on your own pages, and set it up to display your google calendar in real-time.
  • Captcha Reqd?: To reduce the number of spam emails you receive, tick this box so that users have to enter a Scouting term before submitting an application or contact form.
  • Pre-2024 Scout Roles?: Tick this field if you want to see traditional Scouting role names in your drop-down-lists, or untick to use the new role names.
  • Admin Notification: Selecting a user here, will send an email to them every time another SiteAdmin user makes a page or setting change on your website.
  • Once you've changed these fields, click Save Changes

Fig. 1: Additional fields

Setup Online Payments

Settings for PayPal payments for events and the shopping cart module.

To setup online PayPal payments for events and/or an online shop, you will need to register for a PayPal business.

PayPal Merchant Id: Enter your PayPal merchant ID here.

PayPal Sandbox Merchant Id: Enter your PayPal 'Sandbox' (test) merchant ID here.

PayPal Live?: When you've completed testing your online payments, tick this field so that payments go to your live PayPal Merchandise account.


When you're setting up an only shop on your website, you may want to include online payments. In order to send an invoice to your customers, you will need to complete these fields:

Legal Name: Your name or company name.

Invoice Address: Your legal address.

Post Code: As above.

VAT Number: If you are VAT registered, enter your VAT number here, otherwise leave it blank.


Once you've changed these fields, click Save Changes

Fig. 1: Payment detail fields

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