Configuring Jive Socialization for a Site

The Jive Socialization Settings screen provides the "Site" or second layer (four layers total) of socialization administration.
Note: See Corporate Policies for Jive for more detail regarding the socialization administration layers.

The Site layer is designed to be controlled by a specific SharePoint site owner. This layer is used to establish a "mapping" between a SharePoint site and a Jive Space, Project, or Group. Once this type of "mapping" is established, the Corporate Policy (Administrative layer) is used to determine what content can be socialized into Jive as a valid Activity Stream. This "mapping" in SharePoint also enables the use of the SharePoint widgets in the "mapped" Jive container (Space, Project, or Group).

To Access the Jive Socialization Settings for a Site

  1. Locate the Jive site settings section:
    • Site Actions menu > Site Settings > Jive.
      Note: You must have appropriate access on the site to be able to see or access the Site Actions menu.
  2. Under Jive, click Jive Socialization Settings.
  3. Select the Enabled check box to enable socialization for the specific SharePoint site.

    Note:
    • If the entire Jive Socialization Settings screen appears to be disabled, please navigate to the General Jive Settings screen (under Site Actions > Site Settings) and clear the Inherit settings from parent site check box.
    • When you enable socialization and click OK to establish the mapping to Jive, please make sure you are logged in with the correct account. This account will be used to pull activity stream updates from SharePoint.
  4. If the Enabled check box is selected, please choose a Jive place (space, project, or group) to begin socializing content; you can also create a "New Social Group".
  5. Choose whether only members of the SharePoint site can access the content in Jive OR all members of the target Jive container can access the content.

    The following table describes how this affects Jive:

    Feature Allow only members of this site to access SharePoint content* Allow all members of the Jive place to access SharePoint content
    Document metadata available in Jive Yes, regardless of the user's access to SharePoint Yes, regardless of the user's access to SharePoint
    Document thumbnail preview in Recent Activity widget No, even if the user has access to SharePoint Yes, regardless of the user's access to SharePoint
    Document preview Yes, but only if the current user has access to the document, otherwise no Yes, regardless of the user's access to SharePoint
    Link to SharePoint library and document Yes, but when clicked the user may be challenged for credentials Yes, but but when clicked the user may be challenged for credentials

    * Note that "members of this site" really means users that have access to the document.

  6. Click OK.