Area “Tools” Tab

A cool feature on the Area Details page of Arena is the ability to customize the "Tools" tab to include any HTML that you’d like.  When editing the settings of the Area Detail module, any HTML that you include in the Details section will be displayed in the Tools tab.

For example, this the HTML that we’ve entered for our Area Details module…

<div class="heading2">Tools</div>
<div class="normalText" style="padding-left:15px">
    <a href='default.aspx?page=1437&Area=<area_id>'><area_name> Events</a><br/>
    <a href='default.aspx?page=4065&Area=<area_id>'>View <area_name> Families</a><br/>
</div>
<div class="heading2" style="padding-top:20px">Reports</div>
<div class="normalText" style="padding-left:20px">
    <a href='default.aspx?page=3987&title=<area_name_encoded> Members, Attenders and Guest Book Signers&AreaID=<area_id>' target='_blank'><area_name> Members, Attenders and Guest Book Signers</a><br/>
</div>

As you can see in this example there are some codes you can enter that will be replaced with data from the current Area that is being displayed..

<area_id> will be replaced with the area’s ID

<area_name> will be replaced with the area’s name

<area_name_encoded> will be replaced with a URLEncoded version of the area’s name.

We use this functionality to link to area specific occurrences (next post), an Area specific person search page (using the AreaPersonFilter module), and to area specific custom reports.