Update Web Site policies

As a Web Site Administrator, you can edit Web Site policies for the Site listed on the policy page. From this page, you can control publishing and participation settings.

Note: Some of these policies might be already set by the System Manager, who governs access to all Web Sites. If so, the selected policies display.

Accessing the Web Site policy page

From the Web Site Manager, click Set participation policies.
The Web Site Policy page appears.

Using the Web Site policy page

The following types of policies govern this and related Web Sites:

  • Participation policies: Allow users to participate in your Web Site by showing the Participate button on your page.
  • Publishing policies: Allow participants to publish content on your Web Site.
  • Calendar policies: Allow participants or Web Site Administrators to publish events from related Web Sites to the parent calendar.
  • Policies for related Web Sites: Allow participants to publish content and display their information on sites below this one. Also allows participants to change the greetings that display on pages.
  • Calendar policies for related Web Sites: Allow participants or Web Site Administrators to publish events in a related Web Site's calendar up to a parent calendar.

After making changes to this page, scroll to the bottom of the page and click:

  • Cancel to go back to the previous page without making any changes
  • Done to save your changes and go back to the previous page
 
Set participation policies
You can let users participate in your Web Site by displaying the Participate button. If you don't, they do not see this button. Participants can join a chat, add events to the calendar, and publish content, if allowed.

You can also automatically approve participation requests for registered users (those who have created a user profile). Otherwise, you must review all requests to participate and approve or deny them.
 
Set publishing policies

You can set two publishing options:

  • You can let participants within your Web Site create and publish content on your Web Site. For example, a participant could add a list of resources, a graphic, or a table to the page.
  • You can choose whether or not the content provided by a participant must be reviewed by a Web Site Administrator before it appears on the Web Site.
 
Set calendar policies

Participants can add events to the calendars of related Web Sites (Sites within this parent Web Site). The events can be displayed on the parent calendar depending on the following calendar policy settings:

  • You can require that Web Site Administrators obtain approval before they publish events from related Sites up to the parent calendar Site.
  • You can require that participants obtain approval before they publish events from related Sites up to the parent calendar Site.
 
Set policies for related Web Sites

This section contains five policies that govern what displays on related Web Sites.

  • Contributing content: You can always (or never) let participants add content to the related Web Site. Or, you can let the related Web Site Administrators decide how whether participants can add content to the related Web Site.

  • New contribution reviews: You can require (or never require) Web Site Administrator approvals on contributions that participants make to the related Web Site. If you don't require approvals, the content contributed by a participant automatically displays on the page.

  • Guest participation: You can allow guests to participate (or prevent them from participating) in a related Web Site. If you allow this, the Participate button displays on the page. Otherwise, guests do not see this button.

  • Greetings: You can allow the Web Site Administrator to change the Web Site greeting, which is any text. The greeting entered displays on every page created within the Community. You can change this text for different types of visitors and can use it to list the types of things the user can do. For example, for a Web Site Administrator, you might display, "Welcome to the Rocket Club Site. You are a Web Site Administrator and can change content, policies, templates, and settings for this Web Site." For a user who is registered and logged in, you might display, "Click Participate to change content on this page or view Private pages."

  • Display of participant information: You can choose what participant information displays on pages, such as username, last name, first name, email address, mailing address, or telephone numbers.
 
Set calendar policies for related Web Sites

You can set the policies that govern how calendar events from related Web Sites display in the site's parent calendar.

  • Calendar approvals for event additions made by Web Site Administrators: You can require (or never require) Web Site Administrator approvals on event additions that Web Site Administrators make to the related Web Site's calendar. Or, let the Web Site Administrator decide. If you don't require approvals, the events added to a related Web Site calendar automatically display on the parent calendar.

  • Calendar approvals for event additions made by participants: You can require (or never require) Web Site Administrator approvals on event additions that participants make to the related Web Site's calendar. Or, let the Web Site Administrator decide. If you don't require approvals, the events added by a participant to a related Web Site calendar automatically display on the parent calendar.