Public pages and registration

Galette can show a few pages to people who are not logged in, or to all your members: a list of members, a gallery of their pictures, the list of the staff, the public documents of the association. It can also let new people fill in a registration form themselves.

All of this is optional, and set from Configuration, then Settings.

Public pages

The public pages are listed in the Public pages menu, or at the top of the login page for visitors.

Public members list

  • Members and Gallery: the members of your association, as a list or with their pictures,

  • Staff and Staff gallery: the members of the board only,

  • Documents: the documents your association chose to share.

Public members gallery

Who is listed?

A member only appears on the public lists of members when all the following conditions are met:

  • they checked Be visible on public pages: on their member card,

  • their account is active,

  • their membership is up to date, or they are freed of dues.

The staff lists show the members whose status makes them staff members, if they agreed to be visible as well. The Include groups managers with staff? setting adds the group managers to them.

Only some information is displayed: the name, the nickname, the picture, and the text of the Other information field of the member card.

Who can see them?

In the Parameters tab of the settings:

  • Public pages enabled? turns all public pages on or off,

  • each page then has its own visibility:

    • Everyone, including visitors who are not logged in,

    • Up to date members,

    • Admin and staff only,

    • Hidden,

    • Inherit: the page follows the Default visibility.

The Default visibility also applies to the public pages added by plugins.

Warning

Showing the list of your members to Everyone publishes their names on the Internet. Make sure your members agree, and that it complies with the rules on personal data that apply to your association.

Self registration

When Self registration enabled? is checked in the Parameters tab of the settings, a Register button is displayed on the login page and on the public pages. Anyone can then fill in a form to become a member.

Registration form

The form asks for the same information as the member form, and for a username and a password. A small question whose answer is a number, the captcha, has to be answered to prevent robots from registering.

Once the form is sent:

  • the new member receives an email with their login information, if sending emails is configured,

  • the administrators are informed by email, if Send email to administrators? is checked in the E-Mail tab of the settings,

  • the new member gets the Default membership status set in the settings, and no contribution yet: it is up to the staff to check the request and record the membership fee.

The emails that are sent can be changed from Configuration, then Emails content; see emails contents.

Note

To limit abuse, a same address can only send a few registrations in a row: 5 per hour by default. Those limits can be changed from the advanced configuration.