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      Basic Community Settings Overview

      Configure foundational details about your community

      The community's Basic settings page allows you to define the core identity and foundational configurations for your community. These settings influence how your community is presented to users and how certain defaults function for your projects.

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      Accessing Basic Community Settings

      1. Click the Community logo in the top-left navigation menu

      2. Click Community configuration

      3. Select Basic settings

      Configuring Basic Community Settings

      Community Name

      The name displayed to users within the site and on the login page

      Company Name

      Represents the organization associated with the community. This field is referenced in only a few places, like the copyright link on the footer of the page.

      Community Time Zone

      Generally, times are displayed in the viewer's time zone (per their Account Settings), but some system functions leverage this default time zone for scheduled tasks, date transitions, and communications. Your default time zone in your community will also be used as the default time zone on any projects you create.

      Google Analytics Key (optional)

      Allows integration with Google Analytics to track site traffic and user behavior. Each page in the site will be tracked using your GA key allowing you to monitor your community's use of your testing platform. Simply leave this blank if not integrating Google Analytics

      • This can take up to a couple of hours, but after this period of time Google Analytics should show this it is successfully tracking (receiving data)

      Visual Theme

      Controls the appearance of your community, including colors and branding. If only one visual theme is available, this option won't be visible on the project configuration page. Projects that opt to use the community default theme will also use this theme.

      Options:

      • Default Themes: Pre-configured visual styles
      • Custom Themes: Tailor colors and branding to fit your organization

      String Set

      Enable customization of the language and terminology used throughout the community. If only one string set is available, this option won't be visible on the configuration page.

      Contact Us Email Address

      The email address used to send notifications when a user requests help from the community's Contact Us form.

      ⚠️ Since emails will be sent from our servers to your community administrators, using a reliable email domain is crucial. Make sure your SPF is set up to ensure delivery of emails using your domain.

      Community Reply-To Address

      This is the default “From” address used for all system-generated emails sent by Centercode.

      ⚠️ To prevent emails from being flagged as spam, ensure your email domain’s SPF settings allow Centercode to send emails on your behalf.

      Community Landing Page Settings

      These settings control the visibility of features used for recruitment and account creation.

      Allow visitors to see open recruitments

      Enables public visibility of recruitment campaigns on the login page (including non-community members). Open recruitments are essentially "public", so displaying them on the homepage is often core to their value. 

      Include site in central sign-in on Centercode.com

      Links your community to Centercode’s centralized list of a user's available communities. If a user is a member of multiple testing communities they'll each show up on their central sign-in page.

      Hide landing page from search engines

      Prevents the page from being indexed by search engines. This is essential for private communities that don't want to be searchable by common search engines like Google, Bing, etc.

      Enable Betabound promotion

      Promotes your community via the Betabound program to increase visibility and help attract more applicants to public testing opportunities.