Setting up community
You have several options for customizing the look and feel of your community.
This section introduces the basic configuration that is required to start using your Jive community site. You can find the detailed descriptions in the Configuring community and Managing community sections of this guide.
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Setting up your profile One of the first things you do as the community manager or administrator is setting up your user profile. By adding profile information, you create an example for other new users.
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Starting Admin Console The Admin Console is an administration interface used to control and manage the Jive community site. As a community manager or administrator, you can access the Admin Console to manage your Jive community settings, permissions, content (such as documents, discussions, and blogs), and people.
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Creating community structure Creating a structure for content is one of the most important things you do to get your community started. Because people post content in various places, the places you create should help your users intuitively understand where to post (and find) content.
When setting up the community structure, you have distinct considerations for Spaces, Groups, and Projects, especially in terms of visibility and management.
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Jive places: spaces, groups, and projects A place in Jive is essentially a container that houses all the collaborative content for a certain subject or team. There are three types of places: Spaces, Groups, and Projects. The differences between them can sometimes be confusing, so here're the basics of each one.
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Planning customized community pages There are several locations in Jive where you can customize a page with images and information, by using either tiles or widgets as building blocks.
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Theming community The Themes interface gives you the ability to create a professionally-designed community with just a few clicks.
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Changing community URL If your Jive community is deployed on-premise (and not hosted by Jive Software), you can change the community URL, which is the web address of your community.
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Renaming root space You can change the name and description of the root space from the Admin Console. By default, the root space is named
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Setting up locale and time zone You can set the default locale, time zone, and character set for your community. The correct locale helps to make people's experience in the community feel more familiar and comfortable.
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Inviting people to community As a community manager, you can invite people to join the community. Informing people about the community site is rather simple: you provide them with a direct link to the site either from the community itself or by using any other communication channel.