If your chapter leadership board conducts a chapter meeting using the online chat room on your chapter Web site, you can get a complete transcript of the meeting. This eliminates having to compile and distribute meeting minutes—chapter leaders can access and print transcripts directly from the chapter Web site on Lutherans Online.

Instructions for using transcript feature

In the chat room, just before a meeting is scheduled to begin, a chapter site administrator clicks the Start New Transcript button located on the lower-right side of the page. (Only site administrators can see this button.) This will capture all messages posted in the chat room since the last time the button was clicked. Then click Continue.

When the meeting ends, a site administrator types in a name for the transcript in the "Transcript Name" field and clicks Save Transcript.
Tip: For easy reference, use the meeting date as the name of the transcript.

A site administrator then creates a link to the transcript from the chapter Web site. This is a one-time only process. Future transcripts will automatically save to the area you designate.

1. From the page where you'd like to place the link, click Edit Page.
2. Click Click to Insert a New Posting Here!
   Note: If you want the transcript to be private so only participants and site administrators can read the transcript (not the general public), be sure the page you choose is private or make it a private page. See the Getting Started Guide in Online Help (left navigation bar) for instructions. All newly created pages are public unless you make them private.
3. Click the arrow by the drop-down box that says: Select a Layout Set.
4. Under "Interactive Layout Sets," select Chat.
5. Click Preview.
6. Click the image that shows Link(s) to Chat Transcript(s).
7. Enter a posting name.
8. Click Continue. Your transcripts now will show as an active link on your page.
9. You can optionally click "Format Chat Transcript Links" to change how the chat transcript links look, or click "Link to which transcripts?" to choose which transcripts are linked from the page (the default setting is all transcripts.)
10. Scroll down and click Done.