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Platform basic usage

Spaces

Brilliant Blue Platform is separated into multiple spaces. A space serves as an independent area or “Boot” which will represent the Boots for the teams on the event as well  as well the main Event Space with all current updates an information also public accessible. In addition the 3 categories have category specific boots = spaces with relevant information for the teams in each category.

Each space allows an own set of members, permissions, settings and modules. Most content created within a network as posts, events or custom pages are linked to a specific space. That said, spaces are a fundamental part of most Brilliant Blue Platform networks.

Streams

In Brilliant Blue Platform, streams are used to display and filter recently created contents and activities. The following types of streams are available in the Brilliant Blue Platform core software:

  • Space stream: This space level wall stream includes contents related to a specific space

  • Profile stream: This profile level wall stream includes contents related to a certain user and by default also includes content created by a user within spaces

  • Dashboard stream: A network wide wall stream includes contents of spaces and profiles a user is following

  • Activity stream: Sidebar stream which lists activities within the whole network or on space level

Activities

Beside the wall streams, which display actual content entries as posts or calendar events, the activity stream lists various information about recent activities within the whole network or a single space. An activity for example could be a new member joining a space or a user liking a post. Activities are also part of the summary mail sent out to users to keep them up-to-date with recent network activities.

Posts

In Brilliant Blue Platform, posts are the simplest form of content and are included in the core platform. Users can create posts directly within the start page of a space or on their user profile wall. Brilliant Blue Platform provides a WYSIWYG editor for most text based contents in order to add simple formatting as headlines or bold text as well as file uploads. As in most social network platforms, posts can be commented on, liked, or archived.

The search system can be used to search for contents, users and spaces.

Notifications

Notifications are sent out to users to inform them about user related events as new comments or likes on one of his/her posts. In contrast to activities, notifications are always directed to a single user and not the whole network or a space. A Notification can be sent to multiple targets like E-Mail, Web or Mobile. Brilliant Blue Platform provides fine grained notification settings in order to specify which notifications should be sent to which targets.

Dashboard

By default, the dashboard is the starting point for all of your users. The dashboard provides a quick overview of all recent contents and activities of all spaces and profiles a user is following and may contains additional sidebar elements as for example a task or calendar overview snippet.

Spaces Page

The spaces page provides an overview of all spaces that are visible for you. You can filter them by your status (member, following) and search for specific spaces.

People Page

The people page provides an overview of all users. You can filter them by user group and your relation to them (following, friendship) and also search for specific users.

Topics

Topics can be used to classify and filter contents within a stream by attaching one or multiple topic labels to a content entry. You can either allow all space members to create a topic, or restrict creating and managing topics to only space administrator or moderator roles.

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