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Setting Up and Understanding Enterprise Setup

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This article provides brief descriptions of each setup options available in Enterprise. System Administrators can access the Setup page to enable or disable the available options described below. 

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  • To access the Enterprise Setup page, log in to your Brightidea Site with an administrator account.
    • Click on the Setup link that is located in your 'Global Navigation' bar or a link in your dynamic navigation if available. 
  • The Enterprise Setup Page is divided into nine main tabs: Site, Ideas, Users, Exports, Initiatives, Mobile, Support, Image Library and Authentication.

Table of Contents

Site

  • Info

    • Affiliate Name: Allows you to change the name of your Brightidea Site.
    • Domain Names: To set or change your Brightidea site Vanity URL (ex: apple.brightidea.com/enterprise), please make the appropriate changes here.

  • Global Navigation

    • Allow you to enable or disable Global Navigation for all Enterprise and the applicable Initiative/Site(s). 
    • Administrators can also configure the Masthead, Background and Logo.
 

  • Navigation

  • Components

    • User Network: Users can invite other users to their "network".
      • Once in a network, each user can see others in the same network via the My Network widget.
    • Private Messaging: Private Messaging allows users to send messages to each other directly. 
    • Contact Email: This is the email address that will be used as the 'from' address on all Enterprise generated emails.
      • Also, the email address indicated will be displayed at the bottom of most Enterprise pages as the 'Contact Address' for your site.
    • Contact Name: This is the name associated with the contact email. This is only used with certain dynamic email fields.
    • Enable Email this page: The Email this Page option allows you to email hyperlink of any page in to another user.
    • Enable Date Formatting: To accommodate other formats of time and dates in your Site, please be aware of the feature to change your DD/MM/YYYY format. 
    • Time Zone: This option allows the administrator to configure the timezone for their Brightidea site. 
    • Time Format: Administrators can set their time to a 24 hour or 12 hour clock.  
    • Currency: This option allows administrators to set the currency for business impact in their site.
    • Advanced Email Options:
      • Enable Daily Mail Digest Queue & Weekly Mail Digest Queue: They can select a Daily or Weekly Email Digest that will show all their activity in Site or Enterprise.
      • NOTE: This enables the OPTION for users to choose, it does not force them to follow this regimen.
    • Allow users to Post to Blog: When this option is selected end user will be able to make posts to the Enterprise blog. 

  • Security

    • Enable Frame Encapsulation Security: Prevents the system from being put in an I-Frame. Click here to learn more.
    • Enable Simultaneous Login Security: Restricts multiple users from logging in with the same user account at the same time. Click here to learn more.
    • Session Timeout: Allows the administrator to override the default session settings and specify a timeout period for additional security.
    • Enable Strong Password rules: Requires users to select a strong password.
    • Expire email invitation within: Allows the administrator to specify a time after which email invitations to the Site expire.

  • Registration

    • Disable Self Registration: This option disables self registration for end users. Click here to learn more.
    • Restrict self registration by email domain: For internal corporate campaigns, it is often useful to restrict registration and participation to those users with a company email account. 

  • Design

    • Banner: The banner is the area at the top of the screen. There are three ways to add content to the banner area: Hide Site Banner, Image or custom HTML.
    • Footer HTML: By using some basic HTML code, the footer can be customized and designed as needed.  
    • Custom CSS: This allows adding custom CSS to fully design and customize your Enterprise level site and any applicable Site inheriting Enterprise CSS.

  • System Email Messages

    • Here email templates can be configured for the Site. Please see this article to dig deeper into setting up the individual system email templates.

  • Newsletter

    • Administrators can configure and send out a newsletter to selected users. Click here to learn more about the newsletter.

  • Labels

    • Edit Labels: This section allows you to edit labels within the software that would otherwise be difficult to reach with standard label edit mode (e.g. registration pop-up box).
    • Import/Export Site Labels: Here admins can export the Enterprise Labels spreadsheet. Once the spreadsheet is filled with the appropriate labels they can import the new labels back into the Site.

Ideas

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    • Show promote only: This option removes the capability of demoting an idea from the Enterprise level using the old Idea List.
      • In your View Ideas list, only “Promote” will be the only voting option.
    • Enable Idea Tags Automatic Description: When enabled, this automatically subscribes users to tags that they add to ideas when submitting -OR- any tags users add to an idea when editing an idea.

  • Statuses 

    • Here administrators can configure Enterprise statuses including status name, description, system status and status color.
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Users

  • Groups

    • Administrators can create groups, grant or restrict access to Site users across their Brightidea system. Click here to learn more about groups.

  • Manage

    • Administrators can search for users and create new user accounts. Click here to learn more on managing users.

  • Administrators

    • Here system administrators can configure additional site administrator or remove any existing administrator from administrator access. Click here to learn more. 

  • Blocked Users

    • Here you will find a list of all Blocked Users on your Brightidea site.

  • Profile Fields

    • User profiles fields can be configured in this section. Click here to learn more about setting up profile fields for your site.

  • User Import

    • Here administrators can import users into their Brightidea site by downloading the default template and importing it back. Learn more from this article about User Importing.

  • Group Import

    • Here administrators can import preconfigured groups into their Brightidea system. Learn more from this article about Group Importing.

Exports

  • Brightidea offers various reports available via export. Reports are organized by Sites, Ideas, Users, Login History, Search History, Tag Followers, and Site-Wide.
    • Click here to learn more about all available Enterprise level exports.
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Initiatives

Mobile

  • In this tab administrators can activate Brightidea's mobile application for their system. 
    • Click here to learn more about getting started with Brightidea Mobile.
    • Once enabled they can modify the design, labels, and mobile link.
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Support

  • Allows the administrator to quickly access the Brightidea Support Portal.
  • Please utilize the Support Tab to find articles, guides and submit any tickets to further assist you.

Image Library

  • In the Image Library the administrator can upload images, documents, or media files for use for the Enterprise system. 
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Authentication

  • In this tab, Single-Sign-On can be configured for their Brightidea Site. Click here to learn more and read our complete SAML SSO documentation.
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