MyLO offers the ability to secure Members Only content. This means that site visitors will only see that content if they are: a) logged in to the system, b) recognized as an online member of your League. Those same online members can be made into webmasters to edit and manage your site's content.

In order for this to work, you will need to make sure that your members have user accounts on MyLO. There are three basic ways to accomplish this: 

1. Manually add the members to your League member list (Manage Members)
2. Request a bulk upload of members once your site is live, provide a properly formatted spreadsheet (download a template below)
3. Allow members to create their own accounts on MyLO, webmaster activates Membership Status/State in your League online

You can also remove or block members from your League's private content.

PLEASE NOTE: Within MyLO, "members" refers to users with a MyLO user login who have been granted access to a MyLO site's Members only section and private files. Your Manage Members list lets you know who has access to your private sections and with which role (if any), who might be requesting to be in your group, and who has already been blocked. This list is not a true reflection of your official League member roster.

Manually add the Members to your League Roster

To add or manage your members, click on Manage Members from your Administrator League Menu in the left sidebar. Need to create the new user account first?

From here, you will see a list of all of the members in your League, as well as any that have been set as adminstrator members (webmasters). Your members may have differing Member status values.

The Member status is important: 'Active' means that they can see Members Only content on your League site. 'Pending' means that they have requested online member access, but a webmaster still needs to approve their account. Members will be in pending state if they create their own account. 'Blocked' means you can disable members' access while keeping their online user account details available to you as League webmaster. 

Manage Members provides filters to use in search to help you find specific members within the list. The Operations menu allows you to take action on multiple members at once (for example, activate a bunch of pending members in one action).

To add a new member: 

1. Click on Add Member at the bottom of the list.
2. Start typing the username of the member you want to add. The system will make recommendations based on what you type, only searching through MyLO users in our system. If the user exists, select the username and click Add Users.
3. If the user doesn't exist, you need to create the user account. Scroll down to the section: Cannot find the user?
4. Click on Create new user button at bottom of screen, which will open a new browser tab. Keep the original tab open (at Add a group member to [League]) in order to quickly add the new user as a member.
5. Enter the new user's information, username, email address, and password (confirm password) are the minimum requirements.
6. After entering user info, click Create new account button at the bottom. 
7. A green bar will appear across the top of the screen: Created new user account for [username].
8. Go back to the tab Add a group member to [League], and enter the new user's username.
9. Begin typing the user's username or email address, then select the correct user from the list of users that appears underneath as you type. Capitalization doesn't matter here, so 'testuser' and 'TestUser' bring up the same user.
10. Click Add users.
11. A green success bar will read: [username] has been added to the group [League] (for example: Testuser12 has been added to The Demo County). You're taken back to Manage Members with your new member in the list.

Once you create the new user account, you'll need to notify the member. Download a copy of our  welcome message.