About the Content Tile
Tiles by Social Edge are quality, easy-to-use custom tiles that do one thing very well (e.g., search) for your Jive community.
The Content Tile comes with its own configuration panel and can be placed on your community's global homepage or any Place landing page.
Content is an integral part in sharing information and updates in your Jive community. Our Content Tile allows you to more visually and clearly display your Content on any page. This customizable tile will dynamically pull in Content from any place in the community.
Key features:
Organize Contents displayed by using tabs or “pillars”
Automatically display Content titles based on document tags
The Content Tile is compatible with both Cloud and Hosted versions of Jive.
Setup and Configuration
Installing the Content Tile
Note: Below is Jive's documentation for uploading Add-ons, which includes a tile.
You can build your own add-ons to leverage systems in Jive. Once you build the add-on, upload it to Jive using the Add-ons page.
When you first upload an add-on to your community, we recommend that you first restrict its visibility to yourself and test out your tiles by creating a secret group for them. This strategy reduces the impact on your community and gives you a chance to preview your add-on without setting up an entirely separate test environment.
To upload an add-on:
Click your avatar in the top right, and select Add-ons.
From the Add-ons tab, select All Add-ons > Upload Package.
Click Browse to find the .ZIP package.
Visit Jive Core Help to view this documentation on Uploading Your Own Add-ons
Adding the Content Tile to a place
On a tile-based Place, click the Manage button in the place banner. Select Edit Page if you are on a Page or Settings if you’d like to add the Content Tile to an activity page.
Your Place or Activity page is now in Edit mode.
Find a vacant tile zone and click Add a Tile.
In the Categories column on the left, select External Add-ons.
If you are using Jive 8 the Content Tile will be under the Other category
In the tile column on the right, select Content Tile with the Social Edge logo.
Configuring the Content Tile
To access the tile’s configuration panel for editing, click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the tile.
Content Tile Configuration Panel
Configuring the Setup & Quadrants
Tile Header - Enter a name for the title of your tile. This is not a required field.
New Quadrant
To add a new quadrant - click new quadrant
Enter a title for your quadrant
Content Source - Select where to look for content - either search for a place, select the current place you are on, or select the community as a whole.
No matter what option is selected, you also have the ability to further filter down on the content you would like to display.
You can search for something specific by clicking on add content and searching
You can also filter content by specific tag(s) - using AND and OR statements
Set the Image Source - either select the default image (associated with the piece of content), a custom, linked image, or select to have no image display.
Set The Sort Of your Content WIthin Your Quadrant - EIther sort by the last modified date, what was most recently created, or by title (alphabetically).
Additionally Sort by Tags - Please enable if you would like to further sort the content displayed within the quadrant by tag. List the tags in order of how you would like the content to display.
Example: If you enter a tag “helpdesk” followed by “support” - all content with an associated “helpdesk” tag will display before content associated with “support.
Limit View by Custom Profile Field -
Field names for rules should be copied from "Global Profile Settings" panel of the Admin console, not from user's profile settings or profile page
Rules work by "and" logic: for quadrant to be shown all the rules should match viewer's profile counterparts
For address fields put the field name as "Address name: Field name" (e.g. "Home Address: Street 1")
In field value you can put multiple values separated by "||" characters. Rule will be considered valid if any of them will match viewer's value.
"Multi select list" type fields require complete equivalent values. To enter required values put them in value field separated by "&&" in the order they appear in the viewer's field. If the viewer has selected other options not listed in restriction rule - the condition will be considered not fulfilled.
For "multi select list" the paragraph above ("||" for OR) is not honored.
Click save quadrant when all work has been completed. Please complete highlighted steps above for any additional/ new quadrants.
Configuring The Theme
Configure Fonts
Content Tile Font settings
Select Fonts from the tile menu.
Fonts can be set for the tile title, the header text of your quadrant, and the content being displayed within a quadrant.
Select a Font method from these options:
Basic
Google
Custom
Font selection
Basic Font: Supports all of the fonts Jive allows admins to configure globally. Choose from the browser default fonts (serif, sans-serif, cursive, and monotype) and global web-safe fonts used in your Jive community. If you select a Basic font, you can also configure the script type (Bold, Italic, etc.).
Style | Script |
Google Font: you can select a font from those provided by Google. Begin typing to search for a specific Google font. Browse and preview the Google Fonts database here: Google Fonts.
Google font menu
Custom Font: you can import your own custom font by supplying hosted links to your font files. For cross-browser compatibility, please specify at least a woff or ttf font file.
Note: You are responsible for licensing and paying for that font.
Custom font menu
Inherit font options
Note: You can choose to “Inherit” your font selections. For example, if you configure Bold fonts you can choose to Inherit from “Bold”.
Configure Advanced Settings
Advanced Configuration Options
Default Image URL - Enter a URL if it is desired to have one default image display for all pieces of content in any quadrant within this tile.
Content Page Size - Set the content page size - meaning how many pieces of content will fit horizontally next to one another within your quadrant.
Customize Margins - IF you would like to customize the margins around each piece of content - you can do so here.
Example: If you wanted each story to have margins below it you could set a margin of 5 pixels in the bottom field.
Migrate Configuration
The Migrate Configuration option allows you to copy the Content Tile settings you have created from another Content Tile in this Jive community and add it to a new Content Tile in a different place in the community. This feature will save all the settings and stories you add.
Migrate Configuration Menu
Select from the tabs to ADD NEW CONFIG to a new Content Tile or to COPY CURRENT CONFIG to reuse in future tiles.
The use code from another Content Tile you need to paste the copied to clipboard code from another Content Tile into the ADD NEW CONFIG open text field.
Paste copied code from the clipboard and click apply button
Click Save All
Now Save the page to see your tile in action by clicking the Save button in the bottom left corner of your screen
We recommend setting up a Content Tile as a template with the desired settings, colors, etc. so that you can copy that configuration if you plan to reuse the Content across the community or share with your community management (place owners) team.
Publish the Page
Save your changes. Scroll to the bottom of the tile and click the Save All button.
Click Save in the bottom left corner to publish your page
Support
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