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Designing activity and custom pages for places

To customize a space, group, or project with a preconfigured set of content options designed for specific collaboration goals, you can use your Activity page as the landing page and then apply and configure a place template.

An Activity page shows a real-time activity stream of updates happening in the place, such as status updates and replies to content.

Place templates are the starting point for setting up an Activity page: each template contains an activity stream, plus a configurable group of tiles that reflect common collaboration goals. Templates are organized according to the kind of workgroup that typically uses them, but you can rename and customize any template. For example, if you want to set up a place to track items identified for quick follow-up, you could pick the Sales Answer Desk template when creating the place, even if Sales isn't your main goal. This template includes a Featured People tile to identify people you can direct questions to, tracks items marked for Action and recent decisions, and surfaces popular content.

When you edit an existing place, create a group, start a project, or (if you have permission) create a new space, you can choose a template from a list of pre-designed place templates. You need to quickly set up a few essential tiles to start collaborating in reality-tested environments such as:

  • An Event Planning place for organizing the material for an upcoming event
  • A Vendor Collaboration place for partnering with external talent
  • A private Pre-Hire Collaboration place for discussing potential job candidates

When you use a place template, you can add or remove any tiles and move them around within the layout. Tiles are visual building blocks of information. They may dynamically pull data either from around your Jive installation or a third-party service, or they may be configured with the information you've hand-selected.

  • Setting up custom pages in places When custom pages are enabled, place owners or users with Manage community or Manage Social Group can add pages to a place.
  • 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.
  • Applying place templates When you apply a place template to an existing project, space, or group, you get a preconfigured Activity page that contains the tiles and layout included in the template.
  • Adding tiles to Activity page You can use tiles to display specific information that you want the visitors to see in a place. Here you can find how to add tiles to the Activity page of a place.
  • Adding tiles with external stream integrations to Activity page External stream integrations are available along with tiles on your place Activity page. You can configure the Activity page to display information from the external streams.
  • Adding tiles to custom pages You can use tiles to display specific information that you want the visitors to see in a place. Here you can find how to add tiles to the custom pages of a place.
  • Managing page navigation in places You can rearrange the custom pages if they are enabled. But you can't change the order of the predefined pages.
  • Creating a new place template You can create a new place template based on a currently configured place. Custom pages are not saved within the new template.
  • Saving place templates globally If you have community manager rights, you can save a Place Template for other users to apply when they set up places.
  • Deactivating place templates If you want to limit the templates community users can select, you can activate and deactivate them in the template browser.
  • Managing template categories You can manage the categories of templates that are available when creating places and create your own categories for displaying new templates.
  • Place template reference Each place template contains a selection of tiles customized for a specific collaborative activity, such as Sales or IT. Here you can find references for the templates to help you understand which templates you can access.

It's possible to develop custom tiles that aren't included in the product, including tiles for third-party integrations. For the latest developer information and programming tutorials, see the Jive Developer portal at https://developers.jivesoftware.com/.

Restriction: If your community does not have additional modules enabled, you may not see some of the feature options that are listed and your options may be different.

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