Once you have enabled the Community Everywhere feature, you use the Script Generator
to create URLs that you can embed in your site. There are options for the amount of
content you can show:
- Display "Discuss This" Link: Choosing this option will result in only a
link back to your community to a thread created from this piece of content. If a
user posts a reply message, the reply and any other messages will not be
displayed with the content.
- Display "Discuss This" Link and Recent Posts: Choosing this option will
show a link to your community to a thread created from this piece of content and
will show the messages (if any) in the thread.
- Display "Discuss This" Link, Recent Posts, and Comment Box: Choosing this
option will show a link to your community to a thread created from this piece of
content, will show the messages (if any) in the thread and will show a comment
box giving users the ability to create comments on the piece of content.
The Script Generator gives you four display options for the content generated from
the choice you made about the content to display:
- Number of Posts to show: Enables you to choose the number of replies that
will be displayed alongside your content. The default is to display all the
replies. You can choose to limit the number of replies to five, ten, fifteen,
twenty or twenty five replies.
- Show Discussion Statistics: Select this option to have Community
Everywhere display the total number of replies and the date and time of the last
reply. Sample: 2 message(s). Last at: Feb 28, 2007 12:48:36 PM
- Open Link in New Window: Select this option to have Community Everywhere
force the opening of a new window when the user clicks on the "Discuss This"
link.
- Include Default Style (CSS): Select this option to have Community
Everywhere include style markup (via CSS) in the list of replies and comment
box.
The Script Generator requires you to choose the space/community that you want the
thread to be generated in and provides a button that gives you the ability to
generate a unique key for each piece of content. After you've settled on all the
options, you can copy and paste the text in the Code section of the admin
console page into the HTML of the content that you want the Community Everywhere
feature to be embedded in. See the Usage section below for more information.
Finally, the Community Everywhere feature gives you the ability to choose a custom
title and description for the thread that is automatically generated by the system.
You can do this by including two meta tags in the <head> of your document:
<meta name="jiveTitle" content="A discussion about Widget Foo"/>
<meta name="jiveDescription" content="Add your thoughts about the Widget Foo article below."/>
or by including a snippet of JavaScript code in your document:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
var jiveTitle = "A discussion about Widget Foo";
var jiveDescription = "Add your thoughts about the Widget Foo article below.";
</script>