10. Journal/Blog

The journal component has several extra setting:

  • Access Rights - Here you can specify if a user can see journal entries from other users, or just their own.

  • Create journals for - You can specify if all members of the current space or group will get journals, or just selected members

  • Show comments by default - You can specify if the comments on journal entries will be displayed by default on the initial screen

  • Default display - Each users entries can be displayed on a separate page, or you can have all entries display on a single page

  • Number of entries to show - This is the number of journal entries that will diplay by default on the start page.

  • Edit Rights - Here you can specify if a user can edit all entries in their journal, or just their own.

10.1. Viewing entries

To view a users journal entries click on their name on the Journal start page.

10.2. Adding entries

As a space admin you can add entries to users journals in two ways:, or you can add entries to all users journals. To add an entry to a single users journal . To add entries to multiple journals at once select the 'Add multiple entries' link on the Journal start page.

  1. Add single entries to an individual users journal - to do this click on the users name on the Journal start page, and select 'Add new entry'.

  2. Add multiple entries - you can add an entry to more than one users journal at the same time. Entries added this way can also be edited from the one place. This is useful if you want to add an instruction to the journal of all users, eg. "This week you need to enter details about your project planning phase in your journal". To do this select 'Add multiple entries' on the Journal start page.