How easy it is to have your App and Page on the Internet – easy guide

How easy it is to have your App and Website – easy guide - Kyrios ChMS

By reading this article you will understand how easy it is to have your Mobile Application (App) and Website constantly updated with all the latest news.

This functionality is available with any Kyrios ChMS subscription, from a Diocese to a catechist who simply wants to share information and content with everyone who may be interested. Using Kyrios, this is so easy you'll never need help again.

Firstly, you need to have a valid subscription and the Website module active. To do this, if you are not yet a subscriber, you must subscribe to one of the following options:

• The Website service (which includes Website + App + Newsletters + Emails);
• The Parish Management Plus service (which includes the Website service + the entire management of a parish);

What should you know to understand the operating logic?

First of all, it is worth understanding some concepts of how the different elements that allow a website to function on Kyrios are combined.

Thus, in the Internet page module we have:

• Sections
• Settings
• Menus
• Contents
• Events

Before we even move on to configuring a website, we must keep in mind the structure we want. In this sense, we must prepare the necessary sections.

First you must access Kyrios (https://portal.kyrioscloud.com) and use your access data to enter:

Sections

The logic behind organizing content is based on sections.

Sections are a file style used to classify content. These sections can then be associated with content and menus, this way we can create content listings in a very simple and practical way.

By default, a subscription does not have any sections created, so we must create as many sections as we need.

To begin with, we must create at least the news and events sections. These will be the sections that will serve to associate all the news to be published on the website and in the app, as well as events. But you can create many more, for example, at the time of a parish's festivals it may make sense to create a section that brings together all the content associated with that festival and at that time this section could be highlighted on the page and in the app.

To create a section you must follow the following steps (in this case we will create the news section):

1. Open the sections by clicking on Website - Sections
   
2. Then click
3. The creation window will open, where you must fill in the fields:
   1. description – name of the section;
   2. reference – name of the section without spaces and without special characters;
      
   3. At the end, click save.

You must create all the sections you need.

But don't worry, you can create whenever you need.

Settings

Now that you have the sections created (you must have at least the news section created), you must carry out the main settings of your Website / App.

To do this, you must:

1. Access the website settings found on the Website -> Settings:
   
   
   
2. Here you must fill in the following data:
   1. The Url is responsible: you must enter the address without spaces or special characters that you want for your website. We recommend that it be the name of the parish. This name will be associated with the kyrios domain, for example if you put demoonline in this field the final address will be https://demoonline.kyrioschms.com;
   2. E-mail: the e-mail address will be used to receive the data that can be filled in the contact form on the website;
   3. Share content (news/events) on the Kyrios mobile application: you must activate this option so that the Kyrios App can display your website. By having this option active, you can tell your community to install the Kyrios App, so they can set their subscription as default, thus making the App as if it were your App;
   4. Facebook Url: if you have one, you should enter the address of your Facebook page here;
   5. Twitter Url: if you have one, you should enter the address of your Twitter page here;
   6. Youtube Url: if you have one, you should enter the address of your Youtube page here;
   7.  Soundcloud Url: if you have one, you should enter the address of your Soundcloud page here;
   8. Main section – news section: you must select the section that you configured to associate the news (if you have not yet created the sections, see how to create them below);
   9. Right Section – Parish Registry Content: Select the content that will display the opening hours and service information;
   10. Right Section – Eucharist Content: Select the content that will display the time of the Eucharist (if applicable);
   11. Right Section – Confessions Content: Select the content that will display the confessions timetable (if applicable);
   12. Right Section – Patient Visits Content: Select the content that will display the patient visit schedule (if applicable);
   13. At the end, click save to save the changes.
       

Menus

At this point, if you have activated the “Share content” option, you can now open the Kyrios application and you will find your subscription so you can mark it as “Following” to follow all the news.

At this point we will create the main menu of the Page and App. Let's access the Website - Menus:

Now we click or in if we prefer to edit an already existing menu.

In this example we will create a new menu, called The institution and within this menu I want to find some sub-menu items, like this example:

The institution:

• Who we are
• Valencias
• News
• Agenda
• Contacts

To create a new main menu item, we click and then fill out the form as follows:

• Title – will have the name of the menu: The institution
• Section – in this case, as I don’t want it to open any content, it should only display the sub-menu, I leave it blank
• Content – ​​in this case, as I do not want it to open any content, it should only display the sub-menu, I leave it blank
• Layout – in this case, as I don't want it to open any content, it should only display the sub-menu, I leave it blank
• Sub-menus – this is where we will create menu items, which will be associated with content or sections (if the content or sections do not exist, they must be created and subsequently associated).
  • Who We Are – let's create the submenu, to do so we click on the button which is next to the order column and our sub-menu line will appear, which we will fill in as follows:
    • Order – here as our first element (this field is used to sort the order of the elements) we will put the number 1
    • Title – Who we are
    • Section – left blank, because we want to present content
    • Content – ​​we select content that has already been created to present who we are
    • Layout – in this case, as it is a page to present content, we must select “News details”;
  • Valencias – let's create the submenu, to do so we click on the button which is next to the order column and our sub-menu line will appear, which we will fill in as follows:
    • Order – 2
    • Title – Valencias
    • Section – is left blank, because we want to present content, however if we wanted to present a list with the different aspects and in which each value would have its presentation, here we would select the section
    • Content – ​​we select content that has already been created with the presentation of the skills
    • Layout – in this case, as it is a page to present content, we must select “News details”;
  • News – let's create the submenu, to do so we click on the button which is next to the order column and our sub-menu line will appear, which we will fill in as follows:
    • Order – 3
    • Title – News
    • Section – You must select the News section (or the one you created to present the news)
    • Content – ​​left blank, because we want to display the list of contents of a section
    • Layout – in this case, as it is a page to display a list of content, we must select “News List”;
  • Agenda – let's create the submenu, to do so we click on the button which is next to the order column and our sub-menu line will appear, which we will fill in as follows:
    • Order – 4
    • Title – Agenda
    • Section – You must select the Agenda section (or the one you created to display the Agenda)
    • Content – ​​left blank, because we want to display the list of contents of a section
    • Layout – in this case, as it is a page to display a list of agenda-type content, we must select “Agenda Listing”;
  • Contacts – let's create the submenu, to do so we click on the button which is next to the order column and our sub-menu line will appear, which we will fill in as follows:
    • Order – 5
    • Title – Contacts
    • Section – is left blank, because we want to display a contact form
    • Content – ​​left blank, because we want to display a contact form
    • Layout – in this case, as it is a page to display a contact form, we must select “Contact form”. The subscription contacts will appear on this page and if you prefer, you can choose to associate normal content with all contacts instead of using a typed form;

The final aspect is this:

We must create the different menu items that are necessary for the Website.

After this step, the Website and App are fully configured and from this moment on, we only need to add content and events. Therefore, this is a simple and routine task that any user can do. Speaking of which, did you know that you can create and manage your own users, defining what each one has access to? See how here.

Contents

Whenever you need to enter a message, news, presentation content, etc... you should do so in the contents on the Website - Contents:

To insert simple content, such as the content Who we are, the steps and data to be filled in are as follows:

First click , then fill in the following fields:

Mandatory:

• Title: Who we are
• Featured image: you must select a featured image for the content. The image must be on your computer.
• content: it is mandatory to have something in the content for it to be saved. This should contain all the content to be presented.

Optional:

• Sections: if content appears in a section you must select the section, as is the case with news, in the case of loose content it is not necessary to have a section.
• Summary: you should include a sentence that helps visitors understand the basis of the content. Very useful in the case of news.
• Content author: by default the user who is creating the content appears, but can be changed to any name you wish.
• Content location: serves to geographically associate a location reference with the content.
• Image author: you can fill in the author of the image.
• Image location: serves to geographically associate a location reference with the image.
• Keywords: serve to improve content search and association with search engines.
• Publish: by default the current date and time appears, but you can change it to a time and day when you want the content to appear online. You can also schedule the removal of content automatically from online.

Events

See here how to use events to manage mass registrations.