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Managing space settings

Learn how to manage space settings

Written by Rodrigo

Managing your space settings gives you control over how each space works, including visibility, access permissions, posting permissions, and other space-specific options.

Managing space settings

Here's how to access your space settings:

  1. From your home feed, click on your site name and select Admin from the dropdown menu.

  2. From the Admin dashboard, click Spaces in the sidebar menu.

  3. Click the Edit icon next to the space you'd like to edit.

  4. Make any edits to your space you'd like, such as changing space details (name, icon, image, etc.), availability, and options.

Space settings

Let's take a closer look at each one of the available space settings.

Availability

Define your space availability options, defining who can access and follow your space.

Access

Choose whether the space is available to all members or only to specific members.

If you select Only specific members, choose which members should have access to the space. You can grant access based on specific products, events, or plans, and you can also manually add individual existing members if needed.

Following

Choose whether members automatically follow the space and whether they’re allowed to unfollow it later.

  • Members automatically follow this space: Turn this on to have new members automatically follow the space you’ve created. This means they’ll automatically receive notifications and see updates from this space in their home feed.

    • Members can unfollow the space at any time if they no longer want to receive updates.

  • Members cannot unfollow this space: This option is available when Members automatically follow this space” is turned on. Enabling it prevents members from unfollowing the space.

    • This is useful for important spaces you want everyone to stay subscribed to, such as an Announcements space.

Options

Post layout

Choose how posts are displayed in the space. You can use either a Social feed layout or a more compact List layout.

Here's the difference between social feed and compact list layouts:

Compact list

Social feed

New posts

Use this option to control and prevent members from posting in the space.

Choose whether all members with access to the space can create new posts or if only you can post.

Notifications

Choose whether members who follow the space should receive notifications for new posts by default.

Changing this setting updates the default notification preference for all current followers of the space. Members can still change their own notification preferences at any time.

FAQs

Can I change the order of how spaces appear in the home feed?

Spaces are ordered alpha-numerically by default.

If you are looking to show your space in a specific order, the easiest way would be to add numbers in front of their names.

Example:
01. Animals
02. Weekly Meditations
03. General
...

I’ve enabled automatic following for a space, but it is not showing up for my members... HELP!

If you’ve enabled a space as a default space but your members still aren’t receiving notifications, this may be caused by a caching issue.

To refresh the setting:

  1. Turn off the Members automatically follow this space option for the affected space.

  2. Save your changes.

  3. Enable the Members automatically follow this space option again.

This will refresh the setting and should resolve the issue.

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