Designing Overview Pages and Place Pages

There are several locations in Jive where, if you have rights, you can design a page with customized images and information, using either widgets or tiles as building blocks. These places include:

The Home page of the entire community, if it is enabled.
The landing page of a place. (A place is a space, group, or project.)
A custom page added to the navigation of a place, if Pages are enabled in your community and the Overview page has been disabled for the place.
The Your View page, if it is enabled in your community.

Widgets and tiles both contain content blocks that allow you to lay out a page. Usually the kind of page determines which you will use, but as the following table shows, there are two different models for customizing place pages: Overview pages, which rely on widgets, and Activity pages, which rely on tiles. For help deciding which to use in a place, see Tile Pages Versus Widget Pages.

The following table shows where you can use widgets, where you can use tiles, and where you have a choice.

	Tiles	Widgets
Community Home Page	no	yes
Your View	yes	no
Spaces, groups, or projects (Activity page)	yes	no
Spaces, groups, or projects (Overview page)	no	yes
Spaces, groups, or projects (custom Pages)*	yes	no

*Custom Pages in a space, group, or project are not available unless the Overview page for that place has been disabled. This means you can't have Overview and custom pages activated in the same place.