KB User's Guide - Settings Tab - Group Spaces Screen

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You must have full administrative permissions in your space to perform these steps. This means access to the Documents, Settings, and Users tabs.

There are options that can be set at the site level so that each KB Administrator can choose the best options for their users.

Group Spaces

Go to KB Admin Tools > Settings Tab > Group Spaces link

The Settings tab at the top is circled in red. Group Spaces is circled in red in the left side menu. The Edit link in the table is circled in red.

Editing a Group Space

The Group Spacces page. The Edit link in the results table is circled in red.

The Groups Spaces screen shows the list of other KB subsites and their subsequent contact information. Fields in this table include:

  • ID

  • Group Name

  • Edit

  • URL Path

  • Institution

  • Contact Name

  • Contact Email

  • Start Date

KB Admins will find their KB subsite information on the first row of this table.

To view/ modify the data, click on the Edit link in the Detail column, you will be taken to the Group Spaces screen displaying all Group Space Attributes.

Group Space Attributes

The Edit button will lead you to the Group Spaces screen displaying a number of sections with a variety of fields.

  • General Group Settings

    The General Group Settings Section.

    • Institution - Select your institution

    • Group ID - Automatically assigned Group ID

    • Group full name

    • Group short name

    • Group directory name - Required directory name

    • Allow crawler indexing

    • Time zone

  • Contact Information

    • Group contact name

    • Group contact email

  • Group Space and Site Status

    The Group Space and Site Status section.

    • Group space - Group space Active or Group space Inactive

    • Internal site - Internal site Active or Internal site Inactive

    • External site - External site Active or External site Inactive

    • Start Date

    • End Date

  • Documentation Settings

    The Documentation Settings section.

  • External Site Settings

    The External Site Settings section.

    • Browser tab title - Displays at the top of your browser window tab

    • Site title - Displays the site header like a logo. If undefined, your group space short name will be used

    • Tagline - Displays below the site title

    • SEO description - Max 225 characters

    • Additional meta tag - Browser parsable but not displayed

    • Site short name - Displays in SiteAccess section. Suffix "-external" will be automatically appended

  • Internal Site Settings

    The Internal Site Settings section.

    • Browser tab title

    • - Displays at the top of your browser window tab

    • Site title - Displays the site header like a logo. If undefined, your group space short name will be used

    • Tagline - Displays below the site title

    • SEO description - Max 225 characters

    • Additional meta tag - Browser parsable but not displayed

    • Site short name - Displays in SiteAccess section. Suffix "-internal" will be automatically appended

  • Update and Reset buttons

    • Make sure to click the Update button to save your changes.

Keywordsdefault expiration period draft minor change default require doc review comment hide restricted docs search enable cross site cross-site search doc based doc-based blogging Group Space Attributes   Doc ID18597
OwnerLeah S.GroupKB User's Guide
Created2011-05-18 18:00 CSTUpdated2023-06-12 10:45 CST
SitesKB User's Guide
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