You can create spaces from the user interface or from the Admin Console. If you want to associate a place template with a space, you'll need to do that from the end user interface.
Note: Creating several spaces quickly is easier from the Admin
Console; you can apply place templates to the Activity page for each
space later, or create Overview pages for them if you choose. Tile Pages Versus Widget Pages.
- In the user interface, click
> Space and then type and select the place where you want to create the
space. (If you want to create a sub-space, go to the parent space and click
Create a sub-space in the Actions menu.) - In the Create Space window, enter the space name to appear in the user interface.
- Enter a brief description to appear in the user interface. For example, a Marketing space might say "A home for all of our marketing teams."
- Select tags that will often be used in this space. For example, a Sales space might use the following tags: RFPs, sales_videos, wins, and so on.
- If you click through without selecting Advanced Options, your place will use an Activity page as its main page, with the option to add more custom pages. We recommend using an Activity page because it can be displayed on mobile devices, and because it's more friendly to streaming content. However, you may want to include an Overview page with widgets. You do this by clicking Advanced Options and choosing one of the two options that include an Overview page. If you select Activity + Overview Page, you'll need to specify which page will be the landing page for the place.
- If you want to apply a customized place template to this place, click Preview and browse templates. If you don't choose a template, just click Preview: the space will use the default template, Team Collaboration. Place templates determine which tiles and streams will be included in your space's Activity page (which you can further customize). Choose the one that's right for the kind of collaboration that will happen in the place you're creating. You might want to read more about Using Place Templates.
- Click Banner Design or Place Image in the banner to choose the colors or images for your place header. Banner Design controls the banner's background: Place Image is a small inset image displayed inside the banner. If you don't configure them, you'll get a generic background and a placeholder image.
- When you're finished customizing the space, click Create Space.
- Later, if you want to further customize the space, just click Manage in the banner.