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Trainer walks Dane County staff through Legistar administration; follow-up session tentatively set
Summary
A Legistar administration refresher for Dane County staff covered people records, meeting bodies, approval tracking, workflow control, file statuses and attachment templates. Staff tentatively scheduled a two-hour follow-up session for the 6th from 9 to 11 a.m., pending calendar confirmation.
Trainer (Legistar trainer) led a roughly 90-minute remote refresher on Legistar administration for Dane County staff, covering how back-end settings determine public-facing agenda and Insight page behavior and how to configure people records, meeting bodies, approval sequences, workflow templates and attachment requirements.
The training focused on the practical steps administrators use to keep the county’s agenda and minutes system consistent. "If you haven't been in there before, it is basically the back end configurations that can control the front end," the trainer said, describing how site information, logos, and address fields feed the system’s public pages. The trainer added, "I have logged in with my Legistar credentials, and I do have to have admin rights in order to use Legistar administration," to explain why only assigned administrators should change system settings.
Why it matters: county staff and elected-official profiles, agenda templates and approval flows are driven by these back-end settings. The trainer noted that people records are retained for…
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