Administering the Community

Learn how to configure your community, including settings related to content and people, remote connections, and customizations.

Starting the Admin Console
Setting Up the Community
You have several options for customizing the look and feel of your community.
Customizing the News Page
Users with Manage Community or Manage News Streams permissions can configure the News page of the community, which features a variety of configurable tiles and subscription streams curated for specific users or groups of users.
Customizing the Home Page
You can customize the Home page of your community if you have Manage Community permission. You also have the option to delete the Home button from your community in the Admin Console.
Getting Basic System Information
Directory Server Integration Guide
Setting Up Single Sign-On
Single Sign-On allows you to integrate Jive authentication with an external identity provider.
Configuring Content-Related Settings
Configuring People-Related Settings
Managing SEO in Your Community
You can manage search engine optimization (SEO) to help your Jive-x communities rank even better in web search engines by adding page-level redirects, using keywords in URLs, and describing images in alt tags.
Managing Search
Jive provides configurable search access to content and people, as well as access to external search engines that support OpenSearch.
Setting Up Email
You can choose to send email to users for stream notifications, welcome messages, and so on (customizable email templates are included).
Setting Up the Activity Engine
Understanding the Jive Genius Recommender Service
Managing Add-ons and Apps
Jive enables you to use add-ons, or extensions, to configure Jive. These add-ons can contain apps, tiles, streams, external storage providers, analytics services, and other extension points to Jive.
Enabling Unified Communications
If you want your users to be able to connect to Jabber, WebEx, or Google Hangouts right inside the Jive interface by clicking through from hover cards or other locations where they want to invite collaboration, you can set up connectors for these applications in your community using the Add-Ons and Apps functionality.
Setting Redirection Rules
Setting Up Records Retention
The Records Retention plugin records who does what, and when they do it, in your Jive community. It captures snapshots of the activity within a community. This plugin is a useful tool to help an organization that needs to meet legal requirements, particularly in a regulated industry. It can also be used to track activity in a community.
Getting Information About Performance
Jive provides tools through which you can keep track of the application's performance and usage.
Connecting Communities with Bridges
When you connect two communities with a bridge, people can see activity taking place in a community that's separate from the one they're currently using.
Managing Customizations
Enhance the application's features with plugins and other extensions.
Working with Feeds
Like many Web sites and applications, the Jive application provides the ability for users to subscribe to a content digest by using a feed.
Configuring a Binary Storage Provider
Filtering Web Robots
You can use the Web Robots settings to ensure better community performance when you're experiencing heavy traffic from bots and spiders hitting your site.
Fine-Tuning with System Properties
Managing Places and Pages
You can use space hierarchies and specially designed place pages in your community to highlight the focus and function of different areas.
Managing Permissions
A system admin can grant permissions to users for access to content and administrative features.
Managing User Accounts and User Groups
Moderation
Moderation allows you to designate one or more users to approve or reject documents, discussions, comments, and many other kinds of content before they are published in the community. You can set up moderation on nearly all types of content.
Jive Security
Jive's security and privacy features are designed to meet the requirements of the most tightly regulated global industries and government agencies.