Find Content

As you saw on the Jive SBS home page, you've got a number of paths into the content. You can browse by place, content type, bookmarks, and tags; you can also search. (You can even browse for content by other people — just try clicking someone's name.) This section of the tour will introduce you to Jive SBS's content-finding features.

Browse places. Most content in Jive SBS is organized by places. Places include spaces, projects, and groups. In places, you create, find, and organize content. Start by checking out spaces.

1. On the home page, click the Browse menu. Notice that spaces are organized in a hierarchical list.
   
   

   The Spaces page shows a list of the spaces you can visit. If you don't see the space you want, you can search for it. To view a space that's inside another, click a View sub-spaces button to reveal the list of spaces inside.

   

   On the list of spaces inside, you can click a space name to go to the space. As with many other links, you can hover your mouse pointer over the link to view more information about it. Here, you can view a list of content that's inside the space.

   
2. Click the name of a space. If the space's home page overview has been customized, you're likely to see an arrangement of content that's tailor-made for you as a visitor to the space. You'll also find lists of the latest content of other kinds, including blog posts, discussions, documents and more. Use the tabs to get more of each kind of content.
   
   

If you haven't already, take a moment to browse your spaces.

Browse by tags. When you browse by tags, you're using an indexing system that you and others in the community are refining. You and other people apply tags like index keywords to new content to make the content more findable. You look for content you want by clicking tag names to see a list of related content. Wherever you go in Jive SBS, you'll see tags that group your content into categories.

1. Look for the tag cloud. If your team has had a chance to add and tag content, the home page for a space also shows something you'll probably find yourself using quite a lot: a tag cloud. A tag cloud visually groups tags so that you can look by popularity (more popular tags are in a larger font) as well as look by alphabetical order.
   
   
2. While you're viewing the list of items associated with a tag, you can filter the list further. In the Tags box you'll see a cloud of the other tags that are applied to the items. As you click those tags, they'll be added to those you're filtering by (below, "eco_friendly" and "eco"). The list of content items gets shorter as you add tags to the filter, showing only those items that include all of the tags you're filtering by.
   
   

Search for content. Search for the content you want, filtering your search to refine the results.

1. Take a look at the Search box in the upper right corner.
2. Type in what you want to search for. Notice that a search is done for you as you type -- click an item that looks promising. Click Search if what you're looking for doesn't show up in the list.
   
   
3. See results on the Search page. You can sort search results, filter search results by content type and time. You might also see search results from outside of Jive SBS listed on another tab. You'll get these if your administrator has connected other sites to Jive SBS.
   
   

Through browsing and searching Jive SBS you can look for the content you need. But what if you've found something you want to keep your eye on? By bookmarking something, you can get back to it easily. By subscribing to feeds or email notifications, you can get updated on changes to content you care about.

Bookmark your favorite stuff. When you see something you know you'll want to get back to later, you can bookmark it. When you bookmark something, you add a link to that content to your list of bookmarks. It's easy to find the content again by going to your bookmarks page.

• Navigate to something you want to find later, then click Bookmark This under Actions.
  
  After you click, you'll be prompted to add notes. Your bookmark can be private or visible to others in the community.
  
  

Subscribe to feeds. Ever want a way to see what's new or changed on your favorite web sites without having to visit the sites? You can use feeds to get a digest of updates to the stuff you're interested in. When you "subscribe" to a feed (such as an RSS feed) — say, for particular search results or a tag or the content of a space — your feed reader (which might simply be your web browser) does the checking for you. With feeds, you can subscribe to nearly anything in Jive SBS!

• Click the feed icon at the right side of your browser's address bar to subscribe to a feed for the content you're looking at. For example, if you're using a recent version of the Firefox browser, you'll get a list such as the following if there are multiple feeds available.
  
  If you've chosen to be prompted to pick a feed reader (also known as a feed reader or aggregator), you might see a page such as the following. You can choose the reader you want to use and see what the feed would currently bring you.
  
  

If feeds sounds appealing, take a moment to get it set up. Select one of the Jive SBS feeds and subscribe. If you select a reader to always use for feeds, subscribing is as easy as clicking the feed icon where you see it in Jive SBS.

Get notified by email. In addition to feeds, you can stay on top of content by also using email notifications. When you sign up to receive email notifications, Jive SBS will send you email whenever the content you're interested in changes.

• Navigate to a document you want to be notified about, then click Receive Email Notifications under Actions.
  
  After you click, notice that Jive SBS will change the link to Stop Email Notifications. You can always come back here when you want to stop getting the email. You can also manage all of your notifications from your profile, as you'll see later in the tour.