Status level properties

Here you can find the list of properties for status levels.

Table 1. Status level properties
Setting Description
Name The name of the status level. This appears when users hover the mouse over the status badge.
Description Additional text to describe the status level. By default, this doesn't appear in the user interface.
Add or replace existing level icons You can add your own images by clicking Add or replace existing status level icons, and then selecting your image and uploading it. Images uploaded this way are stored in <jive.instance.home>/www/resources/images/status and become available in the Image Path and Large Image Path image pickers.
Image Path and Large Image Path

The application includes more than 50 status level images. You can choose from among the included icon images by selecting Image Path or Large Image Path and then clicking Pick Image.

To add your own images, you must add your custom image files to <jive.instance.home>/www/resources/images/status.

You can use the Add or replace existing level icons box to upload images. This is useful if you don't have scp or other direct access to the application file server.

Alternatively, if the <jive.instance.home>/resources directory doesn't exist, you can create a symlink to /usr/local/jive/var/www/resources/images/status by using the following commands:

cd <jive.instance.home>
 ln -s /usr/local/jive/var/www/resources resources

You can use GIF or other types of image files, but you should use the same naming scheme as the existing images: statusicon-<number-in-sequence>.gif. You might want to start your numbering at some higher level to avoid problems if application upgrades include more images. For example, to add five new images (where included images currently end at number 52), you could add images called statusicon-100.gif, statusicon-101.gif, statusicon-102.gif, statusicon-103.gif, and statusicon-104.gif.

Point Range or Group You can associate this status level with either a point range or a user group. Entering a point range ties this status level to users' activity in the community. Alternatively, if you select Unbounded, no point range is associated with this status level.

If you want certain users in your community to always have a particular status level regardless of their activity, select Group. This associates the selected status level with a user group that you select. For example, you could define a user group made up of a few community managers or gurus, then associate a special status level to them in order to have a recognizable name and icon visible to other people.