Both parent chapters and subchapters contribute to your total chapter count. Therefore, a parent chapter will be billed even if it serves solely as a collection for its subchapters.

Enable subchapters

When the Subchapter toggle is enabled for the parent chapter, all other chapters that have selected the parent chapter automatically display as subchapters.

1. In the Chapter Dashboard, access the parent chapter and navigate to the Settings tab.
2. Enable the Subchapter toggle located in the “Status” section, and then click Save.
   

Connecting subchapters to the parent chapter

1. For each subchapter, take the following steps to connect them to the parent chapter to automatically display them as subchapters on the parent chapter homepage:
   1. Open the subchapter in the Chapter Dashboard, and then click the Settings tab.
   2. Turn off the Sub-chapters toggle located in the “Status” section.
   3. Under the “Parent chapter” dropdown located in the “Lists” section, select the parent chapter the subchapter should be linked to

Displaying Subchapters on the Parent chapter page

Subchapters are not automatically displayed on the chapter page. To display the subchapter on the chapter page, add the page builder subchapter component to either the global page builder template or to the individual parent chapter page canvas. 

Once added, the subchapters are displayed as “subgroups”. Pagebuilder admins can change the title displayed. Learn more about chapter builder here: Chapter Page Builder

Chapter search behavior for subchapters

When members search for chapters within a region, subchapters are grouped under their parent city rather than listed separately. City chapters are returned first, and any non-city subchapter whose parent city also appears in the same results is nested beneath that city instead of appearing as its own top-level result.

How it works

• Region-level chapter search groups results by city. City chapters are returned first, and non-city subchapters whose parent city is present are omitted from the top-level list so they appear nested under that city.
• A subchapter is hidden only when its parent city appears in the same set of region results. If the parent city is not included, the subchapter still appears in the results.
• This grouping is applied on the server and is not controlled by a setting in the Chapter Dashboard.

Limitations

Joining a Parent Chapter

The default setting for chapters prevents users from joining a Parent Chapter, restricting them to subchapters only. This can be modified within the Chapter Page builder by adjusting the "Chapter is parent" display rule.

Subchapters as Parent chapters

Hierarchical content organization is possible through the subchapter configuration feature, which allows users to designate chapters as subchapters of parent chapters. However, it's important to note that subchapters cannot be designated as parent chapters.