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Category Archive: Tips

Keep Intranet Administrators up to date with important news

News is one of the most popular and useful apps used in any company intranet. Read more »

Setting default expanded navigation for your company intranet

Good intranet navigation enables a user to reach their destination with minimal clicks, and therefore deliver good usability for the company intranet. Read more »

Allow users to “Like” your intranet pages to boost engagement

As a default setting, iD provides both a thumbs up Like and thumbs down Dislike option for content pages.

However, using the configuration settings, you can hide the Dislike option, so that users can only choose to Like a page, similar to Facebook.

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Create Sponsored Links to help intranet users find content

iD features an incredibly robust Enterprise Search functionality to assist users in locating content. One of the most popular features is Sponsored Links. While these are generally used for advertising purposes, Sponsored Links are also useful to guide users to commonly used content, where there may be multiple definitions or misspelt search queries. Read more »

Stay on top of requests and bulk upload files with iD Desktop Assistant

iD Desktop Assistant is the perfect companion for administrators. It provides notifications for all items which require approval, making it easy to stay on top of requests. Read more »

Keep users in the loop when intranet content is updated

iD has a great feature which allows users to be kept in the loop when content is changed on any intranet page. Read more »

Configuring iD as an extranet

In addition to iD serving as a site for staff on an internal network, it can also serve the same or different content as an internet accessible platform for external users. This is commonly known as an extranet. Read more »

Enforce users to set strong passwords

Strong passwords mean better intranet security and iD has a configurable feature that allows you to enforce that Administration users set strong passwords. Read more »

Creating a social intranet with iD

Encourage feedback and create a more social intranet platform, by allowing users to comment and rate your pages. Read more »

How to customize your intranet homepage for different users

Setting a specific homepage for users or user groups, is a great way to personalize your intranet, while providing relevant content to particular users. Read more »