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Tips and Tricks...

A Collection of Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks for various HBS Alumni Club and Association Activities...

Ever wondered how your AlumniMagnet photo fader works? Need tips for cleaning up your homepage? Looking for the AlumniMagnet help screens, but can't find them? Need an event RSVP list, but can't figure out how to generate one?

The Tips and Tricks section will help to answer all of your questions.

If you have a Tip or Trick that you would like to have added to the collection or can't find one that should be here, please email clubtips@hbs.edu

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Tips and Tricks:

Notification Preferences (eNewsletters) How to see who is or is not subscribed to your eNewsletters. [ read more ]

Video Tutorials Need a refresher on how to create an Event or eNewsletter? Watch the video tutorial... [ read more ]

Event RSVP Questions Need to find out if your guests would prefer chicken or fish? Or need additional assistance? You can now ask Nine questions that will appear at the end of the Event RSVP process. [ read more ]

Look Who's Coming This new feature will allow you to display a list of currently registered event attendees on the event article. [ read more ]

YouTube Videos YouTube videos can be embedded on to your site. Here's how... [ read more ]

Membership Filter The membership filter can be used to show expired members or renewed members in a specified date range. [ read more ]

Event Date or Time TBD Have an event to promote, but haven't confirmed the date yet? No problem, use the "Event Date TBD" feature. Have the date, but haven't confirmed the time? Use the "Time TBD" feature to create the event article as a "Save the Date". [ read more ]

Event Tickets How to create event tickets [ read more ]

Using an Image as a Link How to create an image link in an article. [ read more ]

Hidden Tickets How to create a ticket that will not be visible in the store. A great way to create a complementary ticket that can be managed by a Club Administrator. [ read more ]

Data Downloads How to extract user information from your AlumniMagnet website [ read more ]

Adding Images to Articles An explanation of using images within articles. [ read more ]

Magnet Support Tracker An enhanced tool for submitting requests for new features, technical support, or general questions [ read more ]

Groups vs. Classifications Groups and Classifications offer two unique ways of organizing the records/users in your database. [ read more ]

Help Screens Where are the AlumniMagnet help screens? [ read more ]

Photo Fader Image Format Remember, the photo fader images need to be formatted to 410x205 pixels. [ read more ]

Free Photo Editing Looking for a way to format images, but don't have photoshop? [ read more ]

Broadcast Emails with AlumniMagnet Email queuing/delivery system for newsletters. [ read more ]

Problematic Email Filter The Problematic Email Filter helps to analyze the emails that are targeted for newsletters. [ read more ]

Enhancing Website Aesthetics Tidying up your Homepage. [ read more ]

E-Commerce Solution Online payment processing for HBS Alumni Clubs and Associations. [ read more ]

How do I refund or cancel a credit card transaction? Canceling or refunding transactions for Clubs with CyberSource accounts. [ read more ]

Shift+Enter to Add a Line Break Using Shift+Enter to create a line break in your text. [ read more ]

How do I know what to do next? Building a website with AlumniMagnet, but are unsure of the next steps? [ read more ]

AlumniMagnet Help Index Index of AlumniMagnet help and "how to..." screens. [ read more ]

Fighting Spam A Message from the HBS IT Group. [ read more ]

User Account Search New search functionality. In the Manage Users section of your website, you can now search for users based on the date their account was created or when the profile was last updated. [ read more ]

Featured Events An enhancement to the Featured Event functionality. [ read more ]

iCal Download to Outlook Download events to your Outlook calendar with a single click. [ read more ]

New Content Management Functionality Enhanced sorting functionality has been added to the Manage Articles and Event RSVP sections. [ read more ]

RSVP Quick Link Easy access to event RSVPs. [ read more ]