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Adding custom pages to places

If you are a place owner, you can add your own custom pages to a place to allow more flexibility in designing places for specific needs. For example, you might add a Product Schedule page that shows your upcoming shipping dates and product owners.

You can add a new page to your place to spotlight and organize content in that place. Once you add a page, you populate it with tiles tailored for that place. For example, you may want to dedicate a page to one important document by using a Document Viewer tile, or you may want to add a creative flair to your place by using an HTML tile.

You need to be able to edit a place to add tiles to Activity and custom pages.

Note: Your community manager determines the number of custom pages you can add to a place. The default number is five.

To add a new custom page to your place:

  1. In your group, click Manage > New page.

  2. In the Create a page dialog box, enter a name for your page.

  3. Select the column layout you want for the new page.

  4. Click OK.

    The page opens for editing.

  5. Add and configure the tiles you want to appear on the new page.

    You must add at least one tile.

  6. Click Save.

New pages appear first in the place navigation menu.

  • To make changes to your page, go to the page and click the Gear icon > Edit page.
Attention

If you enable widgets and reset the place pages to Overview or Activity + Overview and save that change, you'll no longer see the new page you just created. However, if you then reset the navigation to Activity + Pages and save that change, you'll see your custom page again. You don't actually lose any new pages you have created if you change the place pages. You just don't see them when the place pages are set to Overview or Activity + Overview.

Activity and Custom Pages with Tiles​

Activity and custom pages are responsive in design. That's why you should use Activity or custom pages with tiles if:

  • Your community heavily relies on mobile usage. In this case, you should also configure a community home page for mobile browser users. For more information, see Creating mobile Home page.
  • The audience of your place heavily relies on mobile usage even if the community as a whole is not. For example, many sales teams operate remotely.
  • Streamed content, such as a Chatter or Facebook stream, must be brought into your place from outside the community.
  • Custom pages are available, adding up to five customizable pages with tiles to every place.

For more information about tiles, see Using tiles and Tile reference.

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Designing activity and custom pages for places