Hierarchy: Sites, Apps, and Pages
Intranets made with our software have Sites, Applications (Apps) and Pages. Each of these can provide various security access to different users.
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Sites
Sites are standalone areas of navigation, content, and design, and are the largest content grouping with our software. Your intranet may have only one site, a few sites, or many sites. Sites house content in the form of Apps and Pages, and most sites will include both of these.
The hierarchy breaks down to Site level, followed by splitting between Apps and Pages.
Home Site
The Home site which is the main site for your intranet and can’t be removed. The home page of the home site is the front door to your intranet and includes information that all employees need to know about, such as today’s updates, company announcements, or employee milestones.
Team Sites
Team sites, or department sites, are a great way to group content by location, department, project, committee, or activity. You can make content accessible only to members of that specific team, invisible to non-members, or you can show it to everyone.
Each team site includes its own specific landing page and content. Team sites are a great way to delegate responsibility for content updates, so a team can be responsible for their area of the intranet.
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Apps
Applications, or Apps, are pre-built to provide functionality for presenting information such as company news or documents. Apps can be used right out of the box, with minor modifications for your organization such as naming the App or changing folder names as appropriate, and setting security.
Though they're ready to go out of the box, you can also customize Apps by adding or relabelling fields. Apps can also be cloned and repurposed as many times as you want, and can be renamed (e.g. company news relabeled as articles).
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Pages
Pages are standalone content without the added functionality of Sites or Apps.
There are two types of pages: Content Pages, which only have static content such as text; and Widget Pages, with static and dynamic (i.e. automatically updated) content.
With a Widget Page, you have lots of flexibility in terms of both layout and function, presenting a variety of information to users in an efficient layout.