Configure your platform and community home pages by adding banner images and promoting key Challenges and other content. Communities each have their own home page.
Who can do this? Site Admins and community Admins
Open the home page editor
- Go to your platform or community home page.
- Click the filter icon next your name on the left hand side of the page
This will take you to the home page editor.
Select display options
Here you can choose which content options are displayed. You can enable or disable Banner, Metrics, Home card and To Do list using the toggles.
Enabling the Banner option gives you the ability to upload an image that displays at the top of the home page.
- Click the image icon on top right of grey banner placeholder at top of home page.
- Select a banner image from your computer. For the best result, choose a banner image that is at least 894 x 200 pixels in PNG or JPEG format. Max size 1MB
- Select Apply changes
- To change or hide the banner select the 3 dots icon
Metrics options
When Metrics is enabled you can choose which metrics widgets are displayed on the home page.
- Select the edit icon on the Metrics widget.
- Select which metrics you wish to display and then select Save.
Enabling the Home card option gives you the ability to add text and an image that appears in a card on the left hand side of the home page. You can add as many cards as you wish.
- Click the Add home card button on left side of home page.
- Select a card image using the upload button. For the best result, choose a card image that is at least 278 x 112 pixels in PNG or JPEG format. Max size 1MB.
- Add text in the description box and use the rich text options to format and add links.
- Select Add card to home page to publish the card.
- Home cards can be reordered by dragging and dropping the icon on the top right of the card.
To Do List
Toggling on the To Do List option displays a link to the To Do list directly from the home page.
Featuring content
You can add featured content at the top of the home page. You can choose Challenges, Communities and/or Conversations to feature – for each home page (site or community), an admin is able to feature up to 6 cards.
- Go to your platform or community home page.
- Click the filter icon next your name on the left hand side of the page. This will take you to the home page editor.
- Enable Featured Content
- Select the + Block icon and choose Content block
- Select the challenges, conversations and/or communities you wish to feature. You can scroll through the list or search by name. You can select up to 6 pieces of content to feature.
- You can drag and drop your chosen content to display it in your preferred order.
- Click Save changes
- Featured content now appears at the top of the homepage
You cannot feature deleted or archived Challenges
Home View
The Home View option is a slimmed down version of the home page using our Featured Content and Home page card components to allow admins to create a configurable home page view as an alternative to the current activity feed view. You can enable Home view from the home page editor.
Once enabled Home button is displayed in the left pane and the Home page view in the center pane.
The new ‘Home‘ view will allow the an Admin to configure a home page view made up of one or more versions blocks for 2 component types:
- Content block: Feature content block to display content in either a carousel (current view) or rows of cards (new view).
- Text block: Text block to display text and banner image (optional)
How to add Text, image and/or video blocks
- Select +Block
- Select Text block and click Next
- Upload an image or video (optional). Note: Videos will be embedded play from the box
- Enter and format text then select Save changes.
Content and text blocks can reordered by dragging and dropping the icon on the top right of the block.
Set default filters for activity feed
Admins have the ability to choose and set homepage filters that will apply site-wide to users.
- Go to the homepage
- Click the filter icon next your name on the left hand side of the page. This will take you to the home page editor.
- Scroll to the Activity feed menu options. Select specific filters to enable or disable in the menu options.
- Check the Set as default for all box
Note: Settings applied on the main site home page will only apply to the main site. Community Admins can configure default settings for a Community via the related Community home page.