Signup Wizard
The Signup Wizard plugin is a set of blocks and lava files that allow for a fantastic user experience in order to allow volunteers to sign up to serve at events. The concept is that any signup is configured with some basic partitions such as campus, role, or schedule and each variant in that partition will have a number of volunteers needed.
After installing the plugin, you will have access to a couple new blocks along with associated Lava files which can be included/configured for various types of output:
Blocks
The following blocks will be available under the "SECC > Connections" category:
Volunteer Signup Wizard
Volunteer Signup Form - Connections
Lava Templates
You'll have the option to select from one of the following templates that come prebuilt for you with the Signup Wizard. This is setup to encourage you to copy existing lava templates if you make modifications rather than modifying the default ones which come with the Signup Wizard plugin.
Genius - This will output as a structured table similar to other signup systems out there
CardPage - This will output as a single page with panels containing cards. This is probably best for outputting 1-2 partitions
CardWizard - This is good for fairly complex signups with 2-4 partitions (Campus, DefinedType, Role, Schedule). It will output and behave in a left-to-right animated set of cards and allow for signing up for multiple roles or attributes at once. With this layout, you can also add and set the lava variable "partitionDescriptionShow" to "True" and it will show the description of each partition at the top.
Once you have the plugin installed, please follow this tutorial to get started:
- Volunteer Signup Wizard - Block Configuration
- Volunteer Signup Form - Connections - Block Configuration
- Lava Documentation
The following screenshots show a couple examples of how we have used this functionality here at Southeast Christian Church. This was our Easter Volunteers signup page in 2018. It uses a customized version of the Card Wizard layout:
This is the volunteer registration page for our annual Shine event:
