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Creating a 2-tier Team Setup in AccessAlly

In this article you’ll create a tiered approach for employees at different levels within a company. Each level oversees the level below, while the top-most level sees progress of employees in all levels.

Overview of Tiers

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Introduction
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Company Overview
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Company Goal
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Roles within Company
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Overview Team #1
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Overview Team #2
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Decision Time - Do you need the second team?
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Walkthrough - How all of this comes together
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Admin adds team members
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What associates see.

Plugins Used

We recommend using AccessAlly, ProgressAlly, and the User Switching plugin for best results with this article.

Terms Used

In this article the following consulting terms are used. Feel free to replace these with what works for the roles within the companies you serve. These roles will be used within two different teams inside AccessAlly.

  1. Company (employer that Partners, Managers, and Associates work for)
  2. Partners (Oversee Managers and Associates)
  3. Managers (Oversee Associates and report to Partners)
  4. Associates (Report to Partners)

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Team Program #1 – Offering

Go to AccessAlly > Offerings > + CREATE > Team Center > Use Template

Offering Content Tab

Offering Content Tab

This consists of three pages for the partner portal. Publish all pages. The first page is the base module where the partner can see managers and associates. There’s also a page for managers to self-register and a welcome page for new managers and associates to see after self-registration.

Partner Offering Image 1

Offering Forms Tab

Forms Tab

This tab shows the opt-in form or order form used for a partner to get access to the portal.

Partner Portal Forms Tab Image 2

Team Program #1 – Settings

Front end example: These are examples of the items you are building to create your team display.

Partner Portal Front End View

Behind the scenes: In the content tab click the more team program settings button.

More Team Program Settings Button

Basic Setup Tab

Basic Setup Tab

This tab will be pre-filled with the details about this team.

Basic Setup Image

Scroll to the Welcome Operations section. If you would like to release an offering when members join the team you can do that here. If you prefer to add tags for access you can add those in the Welcome Tags section.

The Revoke Operations and Revoke Tags will remove access to an offering for members of the team.

Welcome Operations Section

New Member Tab

New Member Tab

Front end “add members” tab view.

Front End Add Members Tab

Behind the scenes setup with recommended options.

New Member Image

Self Registration Settings

Optional – storing items in a custom field as members are added to the team can be helpful to make it easier to identify them on the administration dashboard.

In the front end view example this is used to create a dropdown with the role in company options.

Additional Input Fields

Display Tab

Display Tab

All team displays are unique and are built by you for the needs of the team. These will be visible on the front end to the partners and managers inside this team.

Front end example:

  1. Custom text section displaying the member’s role in the company
  2. Team member email address
  3. Team interactions
  4. Text based section showing name of course
  5. Offering progress tracking completion of the course the team has access to

Portal Manage Team

Behind the scenes setup:

It is recommended to choose customize display using built-in elements and to check the box to allow for accordion style display. Below you will see the five items shown in the image above and how they become part of the display.

Display Tab Team

Interaction Tab

Interaction Tab

The interaction tab can be used along with tags or custom operations to allow the leader of the team to do something for one or more members of the team from the partner administration dashboard.

Front end example:

The partner can click a button to start a new team for the manager.

Start Manager Portal

Behind the scenes setup:

Before you can build this in the interaction panel you’ll need a custom operation to initiate a team parent. This is shown in the image below, but is not created until after you complete the setup of Team Program #2 later on.

Custom Operation View

AccessAlly > Settings > Custom Operations

Initiate a Team Parent

Interaction Tab View

Interaction Tab

Advanced Tab

Advanced Tab

This tab allows for the “assign as team leader” and “remove” buttons to be shown on the partner portal page.

Front end view:

Team Leader Button

Behind the scenes setup:

Important – you need to enable grant team management privileges to team members. This allows a partner to “promote” a manager once added to a team.

Advanced Tab

Webhook URL Tab

Webhook URL Tab

This tab allows you to trigger team functions via webhook from inside your CRM system as needed. You can also use interactions along with custom operations to trigger items from inside your site without needed to use webhooks if you prefer.

Webhooks Team

Team Program #2 – Offering

Go to AccessAlly > Offerings > + CREATE > Team Center > Use Template

Offering Content Tab

This consists of three pages for the manager portal. Publish all pages. The first page is the base module where the manager will manage their associates. There’s also a page for associates to self-register and the welcome page associates see after self-registering.

Manager Portal

Offering Forms Tab

With this setup all managers are added to the portal by a leader. Since managers are not buying access to the programs no forms (order forms or opt-in forms) are needed.

Team Program #2 – Settings

Front end example: These are examples of the items you are building to create your team display.

Basic Setup Tab

This is pre-filled from your choices when you created the Manager Team Offering

If you would like the Associates to have access to any programs (like courses) add those in the Welcome Operations section. Add the revoke release operation or the revoke tag for what programs are removed too.

Managers Basic Setup

New Member Tab

This tab controls what is displayed when new members are added to a team. There’s an optional place to collect information (like role in the company).

Front End View

Manager Add Members Front End View

Behind the scenes setup:

Manager New Member Tab

Display Tab

This is where you build items shown in the Manage Team tab. Remember you build these to be what you would like including wording for the buttons shown.

Front End View

Manager Manage Team Tab View

Behind The Scenes

This is where you add each item that is shown in the front end view.

Manager Display Tab

Interactions Tab

Interactions allow for lots of options between the manager and associate. In our example for this article there are no interactions used, but if you would like to explore these in more detail, click here.

Manager Interaction Tab

Advanced Tab

This section allows for the manager to remove, add, or grant management privileges to the associates. For this team the members are not being promoted so all settings were left at the default.

Manager Advanced Tab

Webhooks Tab

If you would like to use an integrated CRM system to perform the options below (instead of doing them from inside your site) webhooks for the available options are listed here.

Manager Webhooks Tab

Article FAQs

Can I use this for multiple companies?

Yes you can. This method will not reveal companies to other companies. This is recommended when selling the exact same program to multiple companies.

 

Updated on November 29, 2023

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