You will need the Permissions Limited permission to change an organization's public site settings. If your account has more than one organization, you need it at the organization you are setting up, and an archived organization cannot be changed.
When your account has more than one organization, each organization gets its own public site: its own address, its own listings and its own menu. Visitors can move between the sites with an organization switcher. This article explains how the sites fit together, and what the organization filter does and does not do.
Warning: the organization filter is a display, not a wall. Published records are public to anyone at your account's address. The organization filter decides what a list shows. It does not keep a record secret, and a link to a record under the wrong organization simply redirects to one where it shows. Do not promise anyone that one organization's public records are hidden from the other organization's visitors. If a record must not be public, do not publish it.
Each organization's address
Every public site lives at your account's address. The part after it depends on the organization:
Organization | Public address |
Any organization with a branded path | /public/[path]/. For the default organization, the plain /public/ address keeps working too. |
The default organization, with no branded path | The usual /public/ address. |
Any other organization, with no branded path | /public/organizations/[number]/ |
A branded path is set in the organization's public site settings. It must be:
2 to 50 characters, using lowercase letters, numbers and single dashes.
Not a page word such as events, give, forms or app.
Unique in your account.
An old link to the plain /public/ listing shows the default organization, and the address stays the same.
With only one organization, every named address redirects to the plain /public/ address, and there is no switcher.
The organization switcher
The switcher lets visitors move from one organization's site to another. It shows only when the organization being shown takes part and at least two organizations take part. An organization takes part when all four of these are true:
It is not archived.
Its public site is on.
Its Switcher setting is on.
It shows at least one module.
The default organization is listed first, then the rest by name.
Note: A new organization starts with its public site off and its Switcher on, so its empty site is not live until someone turns it on.
How record links are handled
This is why the organization filter is not a wall. When someone opens a link to a published record:
The link stays as it is if the organization in the address owns or shares the record.
Otherwise the site picks an organization where the record does show, in this order: the organization the visitor last browsed, the default organization, the organization of the record's primary campus, then the lowest. It then rewrites the address.
A record available to All belongs to every organization.
Only published records open at all.
So a visitor on Riverside Academy's site who follows a link to a published Riverside Community event still sees the event. The address changes to Riverside Community's site.
What each site shows
A listing shows the organization's own records plus records available to All. On the Give page, pages available to All show only on the default organization.
Listing titles, images, field choices and visibility are set per organization. An organization with no settings of its own uses the default organization's, and its first save starts from a copy of them.
The public menu follows the organization being shown. Give appears only if that organization has an enabled giving page.
A signed-in Guest's menu follows the organization of their Campus Attended, otherwise their primary organization, otherwise the default.
A text-to-give link opens the organization that received the text, otherwise the designation's organization, otherwise the default.
With more than one organization, the site shows the organization's name, and its logo or else the account icon.
A visitor is sent to the site home when they try to open an unknown or archived organization, a site that is off, a hidden module, or the index page of an organization that shows no module.
Embeds on your website
List embeds for events, groups, forms and sermons work a little differently:
An embed can name an organization. It then shows that organization's records plus records available to All.
An embed with no organization shows the default organization plus All.
An embed that names an unknown or archived organization shows nothing.
The embed generator shows an Organization field only when your campus selector offers two or more organizations.
Warning: Embeds ignore the site's on or off switch and its module visibility. An embed on your website keeps showing published records even when that organization's public site is turned off.