Some local laws and external authentication providers require that terms of service are presented to new users before registration. This guide outlines how to define terms of service for your community.
Creating a Terms of Service page
If you already have a publicly available URL representing your terms of service, you can skip to the "Configuring Telligent Community" section below. If not, follow the steps below to create a custom page to host your terms of service.
- Navigate to the site homepage.
- Go to Manage > Manage Site Theme > Manage Pages
- Click Add Custom Page
- Give the new page a title, for example "Terms of Service".
- Give the new page a URL key, for example "terms-of-service". This will be used within the URL of the page to enable viewing the terms of service.
- Click Save.
- On the "Manage Pages" list, search for the page you just created, by title.
- Select your terms of service page and click Edit Layout
- Use the page editor to add relevant widgets to define your terms of service. For example, you may add a "Custom Title" widget to define the page's title and "Generic Content" widget to contain the legal details of the terms of service.
- When the page is defined, click Publish
- Go back to Manage > Manage Site Theme > Manage Pages, find your terms of service page, select it, and click View
- Copy the URL from your browser's address bar and use it to configure Telligent Community below.
Configuring Telligent Community
- Navigate to Administration > Site > Identification Options
- Specify the URL location of your terms of service document in the Terms of Service field. This should be a full URL starting with
http://
orhttps://
. - Click Save
- Now, when member register accounts with the community, they'll need to identify that they accept the terms of service before their account will be created.