Planning customized community pages
There are several locations in Jive where you can customize a page with images and information, by using either tiles or widgets as building blocks.
- The News page of the entire community. For more information, see Customizing News page.
- The Home page of the entire community, if it is enabled. For more information, see Designing Home page of your community.Important: We do not recommend that you use widgets and widgetized Overview pages (including the Home page) in your community. For more information, see Understanding pages in places.
- The Your View page, if it is enabled in your community. For more information, see Disabling or enabling Your View feature.
- The landing page of a place: an Activity page or an Overview page (place widgets must be enabled). For more information, see Place Templates for designing activity and custom pages for places and Designing Overview pages for places. Important: We do not recommend that you use widgets and widgetized Overview pages (including the Home page) in your community. For more information, see Understanding pages in places.
- A custom page added to a place if Pages are enabled in your community and the Overview page has been disabled for the place. For more information, see Adding custom pages to places.
Tiles and widgets like content blocks help you lay out certain pages in your community. Tiles are the default way to do this, but if you have widgets enabled, you can choose them instead. Use the following table to determine which model is available for you to use. For more information, see Using tiles and Adding Overview page.
The following table shows where you can use tiles, and where you can use widgets.
| Page | Tiles | Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Community Home Page | ✔ | |
| Your View | ✔ | |
| Place: Activity page | ✔ | |
| Place: Overview page | ✔ | |
| Place: Custom pages | ✔ |
The number of tiles on a page
When planning Activity or custom pages, take heed of the number of tiles on the page. A large number of tiles may degenerate Jive performance, including but not limited to page loading times and content responsiveness. This also applies to the user's Your View pages.
This is especially applicable to wide and custom tiles that are usually heavily impacting the performance. With this in mind, Jive has a limit on tiles per page:
- Wide tiles that take 2/3 of the page width
are limited to no more than 3 tiles per page by default. - Custom tiles (listed under the External Add-ons category when you add a new tile) are limited to no more than 5 tiles per page by default.