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Step #1 - Collect images to use

The first step is to find graphics/images that you want to use on your website.

If you already have images on your local computer that you want to use, congratulations you can skip to the next step.

Lets go find some graphics/images on the Internet that you can use.

Step by Step instructions

  • Browse to BSA Clip Art.
  • Click on the "Color" link next to "Arrow of Light".
  • You can now see the Arrow of Light image
  • Place your cursor over the image, and right-click the mouse
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How to use graphics on your SOAR website

This guide will walk you through the steps required to use images/graphics effectively within your website.

This guide will primarily focus on adding graphics to content through the Rich Text Editor - i.e Announcements, Events, and Custom Pages.

How Tos



This section contains tutorials on how to accomplish specific tasks.

Service Outage 8/28/2009 10:30 – 11:30 PM EST

It is our policy to provide you with notification of any issue that has interrupted service to your website.

We do this to ensure good communication with our customers and to make you aware of the issue so you can answer questions raised by your unit members.

Service Outage – 8/28/2009 10:30 – 11:30 PM EST

At 10:30 PM EST on Friday August 28th, there was a power failure at the data center that hosts or servers at our service provider www.serverbeach.com. The electric company was on site at the data center doing routine maintenance. They accidentally cut a cable and in the process shorted out the backup UPS systems. Thus no main power or backup power.

By soar at 2009-08-31 19:11 | read more

New Site Themes coming September 3rd, 2009

SOAR Customers,

We are pleased to announce that our next release will be on September 3rd, 2009 and will include all new Site Themes and a number of new theme related features.

As you may know, this release has taken us much longer than we anticipated. It took quite a bit of time to thoroughly test a number of new technologies to be used in the release and to integrate those technologies that proved reliable. The current Site Themes were developed by a 3rd party consultant and unfortunately have limited both us in development and you (our customers) in personalizing your website. For this reason the new themes (HTML and CSS) have be rewritten from scratch to overcome these limitations and to add in new technologies/features.

By soar at 2009-08-31 19:06 | read more

Editing Registrations

Only someone with Administrative persmissions can edit ALL registrations.

Registrations cannot be deleted, for historical reasons. Registrations can be changed so that the number attending is zero (0). This effectively "unregisters" the person while also keeping a record that they initially signed up for the event.

If the Edit Own option of Event Signup is used, members may be able to edit their own registrations.

Style Account What can be edited
By Family Shared Nothing - a shared account cannot be tied to an individual registration
Individual Scout - his own registration.

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Attendee List

The Attendee List shows the details of who is currently registered for an indivudal event.

It includes:

  • The name of the registrant
  • The date and time of the registration
  • The number of scouts, adults, and other that will be attending
  • Any notes from the registration
  • If costing is used
    • the total event fee for the registration, based on the number attending
    • an indicator if the event fee for the registration has been paid

Print View

A version of the Attendee List suitable for printing can be accessed by using the at the bottom of the page.

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Upgrade: Event Signup

We have a number of enhancements and bug fixes to the Event Signup feature that we wanted to make available to you immediately. Here they are !

Bug Fixes

  • Event Registration block on Home Page now sorts events by their upcoming date
  • The Attendee List for an Event will not show any cost information if costs are not enabled for that event
  • When an Event is using the No Time option, only the date will shown on the Event Signup pages

Signup Type – Individual

The initial Event Signup used a “style” we call Family Style. Where possible an entire family would signup during the same registration. Scouts and their Parents (even if leaders) would all register under a scout’s name. Only those adults without scouts would register separately.

By soar at 2009-01-28 00:20 | read more

Upgrade: Online Payments

The following changes have been made to the Online Payments feature.

  • The bug that prevented Option Descriptions from displaying as been fixed.
  • An options has been added to determine if the Checkout Button should be displayed in the User Menu.
By soar at 2009-01-28 00:17

Upgrade: Email Address #3

This upgrade is for users of PackMaster and TroopMaster. PM/TM 2008 have two (2) fields for email addresses. The current SOAR website Roster supports three (3) email addresses. Previously, the 3rd website Roster email address would be cleared on every TM/PM Import.

This has been changed. A TM/PM Import will now only clear the first two email addresses in the website Roster. This will allow you to add a 3rd email address for members, that will not be affected by TM/PM Imports. You need to use the last email address field on the right side for this feature.

By soar at 2009-01-28 00:16