maps.transitionnetwork.org
- Signing up
- Adding a group
- Adding a Trainer
- Adding a healthcheck
- Trainer Admin
- Hub - Approving a group
- Hub - Reviewing healthchecks
- Hub - Editing a hub page
- Hub - Annual activity checker email & process
- Hub - Email contactablility of groups
- Hub - Embedding maps on your sites
- Hub - API access
- Hub data protection agreement
- Hub - Open data
- Hub video tour
- Further help
- Hub - Adding a group editor
Signing up
If you are new to the maps.transitionneywork.org site you will create a Transition ID account to access it.
If you have an existing account you can still log in with your existing username & password
Adding a group
Once you have logged in you can create a new Transition group.
Once you click save your hub will be notified that you have submitted it and it is up to them to approve the new group.
Once they have approved it it will appear on the website. Transition network will also mention it in their Twitter account
Adding a Trainer
New trainer applications are reviewed every six months https://transitiongroups.org/add-trainer/
Adding a healthcheck
Groups can do a self assessment process on the site called a healthcheck.
The submissions are shared with the appropriate hub.
Trainer Admin
New trainers submitted to the site are reviewed every six months by the trainer admins. For more information about this process please ask training@transitionnetwork.org
Hub - Approving a group
As a hub user you are responsible for approving and reviewing the group records in your hub area. Hubs can have as many users as are needed. If you would like to add an additional hub user please open a ticket
When a new group is submitted in your area you will receive an email notification alerting you to the pending group. You need to log in, review the group and either approve or reject it.
You will recieve reminder emails every six days until the group is either approved or rejected.
When a group is approved they will receive an email welcoming them to the movement and signposting to some support resources. If you would like to customise this email then please add your text to this welcome email document
If you have trouble accessing that document then ensure that you are a member of the Hubs group
Hub - Reviewing healthchecks
Groups in your hub area may complete the online Healthcheck When they submit the scores this will be forwarded to you by email. You can also view reports of these scores in the dashboard
Depending on the results you may identify particular areas where groups in your hub area need support.
Hub - Editing a hub page
Each official hub has a page on the site where you can link to your websites or social media. Please help us to keep these up to date and accurate!
You can edit the page by visiting your hub page and pressing the 'edit' button, or through the dashboard
Hub - Annual activity checker email & process
As you know keeping group records up to date is a challenge. We have developed an annual 'activity checker' function with funding from Transition Together.
We are in the process of enabling this on a per-hub basis so the global figures do not yet represent the full extent of the movement.
The process is:
- Every 365 days each primary contact in a group receives an email asking them to log into Transition groups.org and update their group profile.
- If groups do not log in and either update or delete their profile they are sent a reminder to do so every fifteen days
- The activity checker email function can be enabled on a per-hub basis on request
- We can translate/customise the email that is sent to get people to log in.
Activity checker is currently enabled on
Réseau Transition Suisse romande
We are seeking agreement to turn it on for the other hubs.
If you would like to turn on the activity checker for your hub;
1) Join the Hubs Group space if you haven't already (this grants you access to the document below)
2) Check the translated text of the email add your preferred text if required.
3) Submit a message using this form requesting the feature is turned on
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English version of the email
Please update #post_name#
Hello #post_name#
We are emailing you because you are listed as an official contact for a Transition group. We want to make sure that your group’s information is up-to-date, and we have the correct contact details for you.
For years, transitiongroups.org has been the place to go to find Transition groups and get involved - This information is vital to ensure we can contact you about training and other opportunities, and to understand our movement and how to best support groups.
This process should take you less than five minutes.
If your Transition group is still active, or you would like to delete the record to stop these reminder emails:
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Please click the link below:
#login_link# -
Update your information
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Please save the record, using the button at the bottom of the screen, even if the data is all correct. This is how we know you are still active.
If you do not click 'save' we do not know that your group still exists and we'll continue to send these reminder emails until the button is pressed, or you delete your group.
If you have any questions - reply to this email..
Thanks!
Sam Rossiter and the Transition Network team
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*Due to the historical context of Transition Network having held some hub functions in the UK there is an anomaly of 'England and Wales' being represented on the map as a hub, when in fact it is not yet a formal hub. We have done our best to represent this as an anomaly. We hope and anticipate that a hub will emerge in England and Wales soon.
Hub - Email contactablility of groups
The Transitiongroups.org has several email functions. For example
- Contact forms for each group
- The activity checker
It logs the success or failure of emails sent from the site in a email deliverability report
Please keep an eye on this report to ensure that groups in your hub area are contactable. If they are not then you may consider deleting them or reaching out to them on other channels to update the email.
If you find an email is failing, but you have another alternate contact email then you can add that to the group.
When logged in as a hub on each group page you will see the 'group editor' box to the right. Here you can add alternate email contacts you have for a group.
When you do this the person is invited to create an account.
Hub - Embedding maps on your sites
On this page https://transitiongroups.org/account#nav-maps/
You will find the code to embed the map for your hub.
It is possible to embed a translated version of the map by adding a two letter language code to the link you embed by adding the two letter language code.
The example code provided to embed a map for the Japanese hub is
<iframe src="https://transitiongroups.org/map/?hub_name=japan" width="100%" height="550px" frameBorder="0" style="display: block;" allow="geolocation 'src'"></iframe>
You can find the two letter language code by changing the site to your preferred language using the drop down and then looking at the URL. So if I change the language to Japanese, I see the URL changes to
https://transitiongroups.org/ja/
So I just need to edit the provided embed code to be
<iframe src="https://transitiongroups.org/ja/map/?hub_name=japan" width="100%" height="550px" frameBorder="0" style="display: block;" allow="geolocation 'src'"></iframe>
An example of the embed is here: https://reseautransition.ch/nos-prestations/carte-initiatives/
Hub - API access
There is an API available and several mapping services make use of it.
Information can be found here https://transitiongroups.org/api/
Hub data protection agreement
When you sign up as a hub you agree to treat personal data in line with the privacy policy
Hub - Open data
Data submitted to the site, with the exception of personal data is open data https://transitiongroups.org/licence/
Hub video tour
A quick tour of transitiongroups.org as a hub user can be found here:
Further help
Hub - Adding a group editor
As a hub user you can add new editors to any groups in your area.
Just visit the group page and in the top right corner add the new email address as a group editor
The user will then recieve an email invite to sign up, when they do they will have edit access to the group