Agenda

1) We cannot do anything for you without your club number.

2) This is FREEToastHost we do not offer phone support

3) There is documentation on how to use and maintain your Club site.
https://support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/fth4-documentation-index

4) If you have a specific question we will be happy to assist you.

5) Clubs and the ClubAdmins are responsible to maintain their own website we do not do it for you.

The directions for the calendar do not include adding a time for the club meetings. When I used the date range it did not include the time for the club meeting. Do the meetings have to be entered with a date range one at a time?

When you create a dated agenda the calendar is automatically updated.
No need to do it manually.

We don't want to do agendas through Free Toast Host.  Also, we have no meetings on federal holidays.  The software should include times, e.g., 6:30 to 8:30 and not just begin times.  Adding dates for no meetings should be allowed. The software allows "events".  Very confusing.

If you don't use the Agendas that is ok,  but it is easier.

You still didn't post your club number.

1) sign in
2) go to the calendar
3) remove the all day tick
4) put the date and time for start and stop
5) pick the recurring, how often
6) pick the day of the week
7) pick when it ends

Federal holidays are meaningless in a global context, so you will have delete those meetings manually.

Hello,
I do not see "all day tick" anywhere to click. I do not see an area to set up recurring meetings. Corporate Outlook that I used to use makes it so easy. Not Free Toast Host! The agenda that pops up is from January 23, 2012!

 

 

 

 

The red indicates an event rather than the blue for a club meeting.  Thus, on the webpage, it lists that a meeting schedule is coming.

If you want blue then you have to create agendas using the system.
create a simple agenda with one role for the length of your meeting.

For FTH to force using the agenda feature in order to populate the calendar with meetings is very inconvenient. We use Excel in Club 12 and have six weeks worth of advanced agenda items so that club members can plan. The way FTH is set up, you have to look at individual agendas. Very time consuming. We also have a club roster with names and phone numbers on the reverse side of our agenda. Plus there's additional information. Whoever created this in FTH did not do enough Beta Testing. It's too laborious and burdensome.

Just a thought.

Sounds like you are using the software for minimal usage.

As a club that uses agenda, the report cards are a brilliant functionality.
Our club is now expanding the usage of the site, given the new layout. 
Club members can glance down and see their roles, what is open.   The new ones are even reaching out and supporting each other to swap roles when they can't make it.  
They like it!

There have been very few bugs, and the software has proven to be intuitive.
Support has also been great!

It really sounds like you have a niche usage that may have been missed.

ps. any chance that I worked with you at a company in Milwaukee many moons ago?

I will ask our EVP if she wants to tackle the agenda. She's a lot younger. A lot of us in the club are retired. Funny, I don't find the program intuitive. Of course my logic doesn't match up to other people's logic. I am actually a retired California Community College counselor. I have never been to Milwaukee. I was born in Iowa and have Mid Western roots. Brought to California when I was a young child.

We don't force you to use any part of FTH.
You can manually enter any calendar information you want manually I described how to do it.
It is your choice what you do with it.

From what I can see, if we do not use the agenda, the website tab "meeting info" displays as schedule coming soon. A visitor may get confused by this. So, in a way we are forced to use the agenda software so that "meeting info" will display. Am I incorrect?

You don't have to do full agendas, just an agenda place holders with one role for the length of your meeting, and set to not allow signups.
Then schedule it when you want it to appear in the calendar and on you website.

The way FTH is set up, you have to look at individual agendas. Very time consuming. We also have a club roster with names and phone numbers on the reverse side of our agenda. Plus there's additional information. Whoever created this in FTH did not do enough Beta Testing. It's too laborious and burdensome.

Have you even looked at what is available in FTH4? Members can sign up on one page for roles available at the next 7 meetings - just a simple tick of a box.
Contact details - all on one page. And only current details (as maintained) - no accidental emailing past members, or forgetting to include new members because your personal lists aren't current.
Nothing laborious or burdensome about it.
If you don't try it, you'll miss all of the hidden gems (many of which have been suggested by users over the years). And it is continually improving.

Every Toastmaster Club is run differently. For your club, letting members sign up for whatever they want for upcoming weeks works. I've looked at the FTH agenda features. Our Excel agenda in our club has worked very well over the years. We have a lot more information on it that what FTH offers.