Get It Your Way

You'll want to personalize your home page. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of the time you're using Jive SBS.

As you and others use Jive SBS, the amount of content will grow until you want ways to keep it all sorted out. You'll develop a preference for certain people's blogs, for discussions in certain areas. And you'll learn that some areas just rarely have anything you need.

1. Go the home page and click the Your View tab to begin designing your personalized view.
   
   
2. Click the personalize link to jump into design mode.
   
   

   Notice how the page in design mode is divided into a top part and larger bottom part. In the box near the top of the page is a list of widgets. Most widgets are special views on content or people in Jive SBS; a few provide other ways to add other things, such as notes and links to stuff on the web.

   Note: At the top notice that the widgets available for your community are grouped under a tab with your community's name. But you might also see other tabs with other community names. If you do, it means that your community is connected to that community. If you're a member of the other community, you can add widgets to display content and activity from that one, too.

   Beneath the list of widgets is a design already started for you. This design is an arrangement of widgets for you to change by rearranging it, removing widgets, and adding some you'd rather have.

3. Notice the widgets you don't want and remove them by clicking their Remove this widget link.
   
   
4. Take a look at top of the page. This is where you get the widgets that display what you'll want to see on your personalized page. At the far left side, you'll see a list of layouts. Each of these arranges the widgets on the page in a slightly different way. Next to the layouts is a list of the widgets you can use. They're organized by category -- whether they're for showing information about content, places (such as spaces), people, or other things. To find out what you have, click each of the categories, then click the name of the widgets that look interesting to you. For each widget name you click, you'll get a preview of what it might display if you chose it.
   
   
5. Next, grab a widget's Drag to Add button and drag it onto your design...
   
   
6. ...then drop them where you want it.
   
   
7. Click the widget's Edit this widget link to edit its properties. This is where you fine tune the widget so that it shows you what you want.
   
   Edit this widget's properties to get it how you want it.
   
   
8. Click Save Properties to save your changes.
   
   
9. When you've got the widgets you want in the design, click a layout from the available layout arrangements at the left side of the page. Click each one to see how your personalized page looks. As you consider layouts, you can drag your widgets from column to column by grabbing the widget's name.
   
   
10. Once you've got your design where you want it, click Publish Layout. As you use the community, remember that you can come back to design mode by clicking the Personalize link.
11. In the Create Content section of the tour you'll learn more about the kinds of content you can create.