General Settings

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The General Settings section houses the majority of the universal settings and details for your community.


Basic Settings

Advanced Settings
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General Settings: Basic

Community Link

Custom Domain

Community Settings

Approval Required

System Settings

Member Profile Questions


Community Link

Your Community Link serves as the web address directing users to your community's home page. Please contact support to change it.


Community Settings

Community settings allow you to change the status, language, community timezone


Approvals Required

Community settings allow community administrators to control ideas and comments submitted by the members of the community.



System Settings

This section helps you to set the system-level settings such as community visibility and default campaign.


Private Community: You can set your community visibility to Public or Private by toggling the switch for a Private campaign.

Difference between Private and public community

Default Campaign: The default campaign setting allows you to select one campaign where all the ideas will be directed unless the user selects a particular campaign.

Member Profile Questions

Member profile questions help administrators to collect additional information from the community members apart from their Name and Email address.


General Settings: Advanced

Custom Domain

Custom Domain

Custom domain settings allow linking your IdeaScale community to your own domain.

Last Updated: October 1, 2024