Last January (2016), the inheritance feature was reworked to rationalize how to create relationships between sites. Everything is now configurable directly in the settings of the parent website (in the "Instance" menu of the settings) - that’s because parents make the rules. This is pretty straightforward. The first option defines upwards searchability (many to one), the second one downwards searchability (one to many), and the third one encourages children to share their toys among them.…
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Make sure lumsites@domain.com sees all users in the domain (and a trick to only show real humans)
When naming a user for a certain admin role in the Google Admin Console, you can decide the target OU (Organizational Unit) on which the user will be able to use his or her admin powers. This has a direct bearing on the users you will be able to see in the LumSites user pickers. It is strongly advised to allow the admin account to have reading access on all users in the platform, unless a…
How to use shortened URLs and how content URL works in LumSites
Two related stories today. One about content-oriented URLs, and one about shortened URLs for internal content. Pay attention because this could save you hours of useless work. Content URL Much like in Google Drive, LumSites is content-oriented rather than hierarchy-oriented. Pages do not know that they are part of a menu, or submenu. When you create a new content, creating a URL is one of the 3 mandatory options to fill out (along with a Title,…