Guide to MEETINGS

the Basic Meeting List Toolbox

Click on Meetings on the Main Menu. This is what we should see.

If there is a map below this we may click the arrow to the left of Search for Text to dismiss the map.

There are three sections to this menu: Basic Search, Advanced Search and the Search by Map/ Search for text toggle (a toggle switches between two options when clicked. The display above is set for Basic Search for text. Clicking on Search by Map will open the Search by Map. See below.

We'll look at that later. For now continue below.

If we enter nothing in the Search for: text box and hit

a list of all the meetings in the region will be displayed.

At the top New Search will take us back to the previous screen. The next line tells us how many meeting are displayed on this page and how many there are to display by selecting the pages below in blue. We may click on one of these to take us to a display of that page.

We may notice that, below the available page numbers, some of the headings for the columns of the meeting descriptors are blue.

The list is sorted by Weekday, Town and Time. We will know the primary sort by the location of the arrow

Clicking on the arrow will invert the sort. Clicking on a heading will move the arrow to that column and sort on it.

Let's do a search for “the ties that bind”

We type the “the ties that bind” in the text box. Hit the enter key or click

The search results in five meetings begin listed. Out of the five, four are in the same place, at the same time, four days of the week. We see a problem: this group meets every morning at 7:00 am except on Tuesday. I would like to go to a meeting every morning at 7:00 am. Then go to work with an attitude of gratitude. We click on the meeting name (which is in blue indicating that it is a link) of the first meeting in the list that meets at St. Gregory's.

A new screen displays on top of the list

At the top is the Name of the Group

The X in the red box on the top right hand corner will close this window if clicked.

Also at the top is time info about the meeting

Below that is the address and a link to a more detailed map to the meeting.

The arrows on the left move the whole map north, south, east, or west. The center box, with four arrows pointing toward the center, moves us back to the spot where we first clicked, the black NA pin. On the right we may change the view from map to satellite image. We may play with them to get a feel.

The scale on the left zooms in (+) or out (-)

The meeting location is marked by a black NA pin.

Below the map is a globe that will download a GPS file. When we hold our cursor over it, a brief description appears.

Then we'll see Language and Area Service.

Clinking Contact us about this Meeting will open a form to report information or ask questions about a meeting.

Below that is format information for the meeting and a link to close the window.

After clicking Contact us about this Meeting the form above is displayed.

It is filled with sample data, here. When we are satisfied with our entry we click Send Message. The form will collapse to a success screen. Click OK there and it will close, leaving the meeting information window open.

Closing that will leave the search list open.

Clicking New search on the search listing will take us back to where we began.

So much for text search ->->->->

Now we click Search by Map or the arrow to the left of it. A map is displayed.

We move our cursor to the map and click in the area of the map where we are looking for a meeting.

A new map will appear. Holy cow! what can I do with this? It makes no sense at all.

We can use the arrows here to pan; that is move the whole map up, down, right, left.

We can use the zoom in and out using the scale.

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We're looking for a meeting in “pig town”. We have fond memories of waking up in the gutter on Washington Boulevard. So we zoomed and panned and clicked where we saw Washington Boulevard.

Now we have something that we can work with. The black NA pin is where we clicked.

The Red Pins mark where more than one meeting meets each week.

The Blue Pins indicate where one meeting a week occurs.

Set our cursor over a pin and it will display the name of one of the meetings there.

Click on one and and a balloon pops up.

See it there? “Give Me a Break”

Clicking on More Details opens the same window, with a map and all the meeting information, that we saw when we clicked on a meeting name in the list view.

We aren't ready for the Advanced Search; or maybe it's not ready for us. Fool around with it if you wish.

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