Configuring your Employee Community organization settings.

How to configure settings and permissions in your Employee Community organization.

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Written by Rachel Kaplowitz
Updated over a week ago

Many of the features described below are only available to employee Community admins. If you have questions about who can or cannot see these settings, please don't hesitate to send us a note. We'd be happy to help!

If you're an Employee Community admin, understanding your Employee Community organization's settings and permissions will ensure that your organization stays secure and organized to your liking. 

To access your admin settings pages. 

All of your admin settings live in the same place, which you can find via the cog gear in the top navigation menu. Here's how... 

  1. Click the gear icon at the top, right-hand side of the navigation menu. 

  2. Select Admin from the menu.

In the sections below, we'll walk you through all of your admin pages and the tools within them. 

To add or edit your organization's name and description.

  1. Click the gear icon at the top, right-hand side of the navigation menu.

  2. Select Admin from the menu. By default, you'll land on the General page. 

  3. At the top of this page, you can edit your organization's name and description to your liking. 

  4. Click the blue Save Settings button at the bottom of the page. 

  5. Click the Close button in the page header to see your new organization name and description in action. 

To add or edit your organization's avatar and cover photo.

  1. Click the gear icon at the top, right-hand side of the navigation menu.

  2. Select Admin from the menu. By default, you'll land on the General page. 

  3. At the top of this page, use the camera buttons on the icon and cover photo spaces to update your visuals. 

  4. Click the Close button in the page header to see your new organization avatar and cover photo in action. 

To configure your organization's settings and permissions. 

Your General page includes a number of options to manage content, user, and notification permissions. To access and edit these permissions...

  1. Click the gear icon at the top, right-hand side of the navigation menu.

  2. Select Admin from the menu. By default, you'll land on the General page. 

  3. On this page, use the toggles to configure your settings permissions as needed. 

  4. Click the blue Save Settings button at the bottom of the page. 

Here's a list of the available settings options on this page:

  • Disable All Invites. When toggled on, no one can send organization or group invitations via email. NOTE: When toggled on, users can still join Employee Community via the invite link and verified domain. 

  • Restrict Organization Invites. When toggled on, only Employee Community admins can send organization invites via email. 

  • Restrict Group Invites. When toggled on, only Employee Community admins and moderators can send group invites via email. 

  • Disable Group Creation. When toggled on, only Employee Community admins can create new Employee Community groups. 

  • Restrict Integration Creation. When toggled on, only Employee Community admins can create Slack, RSS, and social media integrations. 

  • Send Weekly "Important News" Digest. When toggled on, all users—no matter their notification settings—will receive a Friday email listing new members, new groups, and announcements from the previous seven days. 

Additional admin settings.

Once you're done with the settings on your General page, you'll likely want to dig into the other admin pages available to you—all of which you can access in your Admin page menu. 

The links in each of these bullet points will take you to a new FAQ page where you can learn all about the tools on these pages. 

  • Members page. Your members page is where you can manage your Employee Community users and manage admin permissions

  • Guests page. Your guests page is where you can manage your guest users.

  • Invitations page. Your invitations page is where you can invite new Employee Community users via email or via invite URL.  

  • Resources. Your Resources page is where you can add, edit, and delete your org Resources.

  • Departments and Locations. Your department and locations page is where you can add, edit, and remove all of your employees' departments and locations.

  • Domains page. Your domains page is where you can add and manage the company domains you've added to your Employee Community organization. 

  • Single Sign-On page. Your single sign-on page is where you can set up and configure your SSO integration.

  • Integrations page. Your integrations page is where you can edit or delete all of the Slack, RSS, and social media integrations in your organization. 

  • Billing page. Your billing page—only visible to your billing owner—is where you can manage your subscription if you pay us via credit card.

  • Export page. Your export page is where you can download an export of all your Employee Community content. 

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