Managing places and pages

Spaces, social groups, and the blogs and projects associated with them give your site structure. You can use space hierarchies and specially designed place pages in your community to highlight the focus and function of different areas.

Note that you can create spaces and manage certain aspects of them in the Admin Console, but social groups are created and managed from the user interface.

A space is a place for content, including documents, discussions, and blogs. A space can also contain projects, polls, tags, and announcements. Spaces are typically arranged in a hierarchy that reflects how the community's users are organized. For example, a human resources department might have its own space, with sub-spaces for content related to benefits and recruiting. Spaces provide the context for organizing content, sharing information, collaborating, and generally getting things done.

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.
Designing places Here you can find general information about designing and managing places, including special place pages.
Designing space hierarchies One of the first things you do when setting up your community is to create spaces and sub-spaces in a hierarchy that reflect your organization's functional areas or interests.
Managing spaces You can create and configure spaces, setting up defaults for content and managing discussions and documents.
Space creation options You have several options when setting up a space.
Creating new space from Admin Console Creating several spaces quickly is easier from the Admin Console, although you can create spaces from the user interface as well. After the space is created, you can apply place templates from the user interface.
Creating new space from user interface Creating spaces from the user interface lets you fully set up the space, apply place templates, and configure the space Activity page.
Arranging space hierarchy You can view the list of spaces and organize the space hierarchy in the Admin Console.
Configuring spaces Some of the space parameters you can configure only by using the Admin Console.
Managing content in spaces From the Admin Console, you can access discussions and documents in a space. Also, you can manage space categories and merge spaces. A few of these features are also available in the user interface.
Merging spaces You can merge the content from one space into another space. This can be a useful way to remove spaces that are no longer needed as spaces, but whose content you still want to keep.
Managing external groups Jive provides external access for private and secret private unlisted groups. With externally accessible groups, you can add external contributors by using group invitations or LDAP and you can restrict who can create external groups.

Managing community