Setting up Community Everywhere

Before you can use Community Everywhere, you must first enable and configure it in the Admin Console.

Fastpath: Admin Console: Spaces > Settings > Community Everywhere

You can optionally choose to limit the sites that embed discussions by entering a comma-delimited list of referrers that should be allowed to embed discussions. Each of the referrer values must begin with http:// or https://. You can also specify a user to be used as the author of the threads that are generated by your content (note that users of your application will only be able to create replies and messages to threads which are generated automatically by Community Everywhere).

  • If you choose to disable the Community Everywhere feature after it has been used for a while, the feature displays an error message stating that Comments have been disabled by the system administrator.
  • If a user attempts to use the Community Everywhere feature from a web site that you haven't explicitly allowed in the referrer list, the Community Everywhere feature displays an error message stating that This site is not authorized to access the Community Everywhere feature.

To enable and configure Community Everywhere:

  1. In the Admin Console, go to Spaces > Settings > Community Everywhere.
  2. Under Community Everywhere Enabled, select Enabled.
  3. If required, in Restrict Referers To, enter the sites where referrers must be allowed.

    The list must be comma-delimited. Each of the referrer values must begin with http:// or https://.

  4. If required, in System User, specify the user to be used as the author of the threads.
  5. Click Save Settings.

After you enabled the Community Everywhere feature, you can proceed to generate a script for embedding, as described in Generating script for Community Everywhere.