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On the surface, Igloo pages and spaces seem to be very similar. When is the best time to use a page over a space, and vice versa?
*Note* this article was made somewhat obsolete with the summer 2015 release.
We get a lot of questions about the pages and spaces and when to use what. I'd like to go over some of the benefits of each and best practices pulled from our customer experiences, but first, let's go over the differences between them.
Pages are places to collect and present content. On a page, you can insert any of our widgets, and pull information from anywhere in your Igloo community for easy access to your members.
Spaces are like smaller communities within your intranet, like a state or…
How to safely and reliably embed YouTube videos and their relatives on SSL enabled communities.
The Igloo editor is capable of dealing with a wide variety of embedded content, but sometimes it comes out looking a little like this, a big blank space:
Far from this being an Igloo bug, it is a carefully considered and implemented feature of your browser. All modern browers consider unsecured content on an SSL enabled site to be a security risk and actively blocks it from running.
Fortunately, many of the video and other content hosting sites that thrive on shared material are aware of this…
How to check if your PDF security is preventing it from being previewed in your community
How in the world to create an object with the same name as something that you've deleted.
If you ever create a wiki channel and then decide that it should be a page, you might have found yourself trying to find a new name for it, since the old name had a "~1" tacked on the end. There is a reason for this, and it can be escaped!
The URL gets the numeric addition, even if the old object was deleted because the old object secretly still exists! A deleted object lives in the Trash Can for 30 days after it is deleted, and it can be restored to its former glory (and URL) at any time. What…
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