Super Admins and Community Admins have access to an area of settings for their Community Essentials site ("community"). These settings control various aspects of the community, such as community events, join and view permissions, and content moderation. This article details the Edit Community Settings page.
Access the Settings page
To access the Settings page:
- Click Settings to the right of the community name.
- In the Admin-settings panel, click Settings.
The Edit Community Settings page is your community-configuration page. You can configure details such as community name, type, and description; select who can join and who can view the community; and choose which features are available to members.
The following table provides descriptions of the fields on this page.
| Name |
Specify a name for your community. Click Check Availability to make sure that the name is not already in use by a different community.
NOTE: If you change the name of your community, the new name will display on the various community pages, but "Open Forum" is a necessary and static default-design element and will remain in the top navigation.
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| Type |
Click the dropdown and choose:
- Open Forum - to make this a public, member-based community.
- Staff - to make this a private, staff-only community.
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| Description |
Enter a description of the community or its purpose or mission statement. |
| Who can join? |
Click the dropdown and choose an option.
- Invitation Only - Users can join the community only if they are invited by an Admin or by a member of a community in which Members can invite others to join is enabled.
- [site] Members - Only users who belong to an IsMember Security Group (i.e., the group's users have Member status) can join the community. ("Joining" occurs by default as a result of being in the Security Group.) Members of communities with this permission setting can also join communities set to Authenticated.
- Authenticated - Any logged-in user can join the community, irrespective of their Member status.
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| Who can view? |
Click the dropdown and choose an option.
- Invitation Only - Users can view the community only if they are invited by an Admin or by a member of a community in which Members can invite others to join is enabled.
- [site] Members - Only users who belong to an IsMember Security Group (i.e., the group's users have Member status) can view the community. Members of communities with this permission setting can also view communities set to Authenticated.
- Authenticated - Any logged-in user can view the community, irrespective of their Member status.
- Public - All visitors, whether logged in or not, can see the community.
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| Moderation |
Click the dropdown and choose an option.
- No Moderation - Messages don't require admin approval and are immediately public and available in the community.
- Self Moderation - New content does not require admin approval and is immediately available in the community. However, all admins and community members can send content to moderation by using the Mark As Inappropriate option. The member will be prompted to give a reason for marking the content as inappropriate. At this point, the content is removed and an admin can then approve the moderation request to keep the content in moderation or reject it to add the content back to the community.
- Full Moderation - ALL new content is queued in moderation and requires admin approval before being available in the community.
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| Features |
The Discussion and Library features are enabled by default. Click Delete next to a feature to disable it in this community. |
| Formal Tags |
Click Add a tag to add a Formal Tag. Formal tags are available throughout the community for all users to add to their contributions. |
| Other options |
After configuring your new community or editing the settings for an existing one, click:
- Save and Invite Members - to save your settings and go to the Invite to Community page to compose and send an invitation message. See Create and Send an Invitation.
- Save - to save your settings and return to the Home page.
- Delete - to delete the community site.
- Cancel - to cancel setting up or editing your community.
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