Configure your private re:Post

When you use your IAM Identity Center credentials to sign in to your private re:Post application for the first time, choose Start setting up on the Welcome to your private re:Post page. This section explains how you can configure your new private re:Post.

Customize appearance for your private re:Post

Follow these steps to customize appearance for your private re:Post:

1. On the Customize appearance page, for Title, enter a title for your private re:Post. This is the title that shows at the top of your private re:Post home page.

2. For Description, enter a welcome message to greet your re:Post Private users. When a user signs in to your private re:Post, this message is displayed on the re:Post Private home page.

3. Under Logo, choose Change logo, and then upload an image. The maximum size for this image is 2 MiB. The supported file types are .jpg, .peg, and .png. This logo appears on the top-left of your private re:Post and has a resolution of 150 X 50.

4. Under Color scheme, for Primary color and Button color, choose the colors. The primary color that you choose is used as the header color for your private re:Post. The button color that you choose is used as the color for the buttons within your private re:Post.

5. Choose Save and continue.

Add custom tags, custom topics, and blocked terminology for your private re:Post

As an administrator for your private re:Post, you can add custom tags, custom topics, and blocked terminology for your private re:Post.

To add custom tags that apply to your private re:Post, follow these steps:

1. On the Add custom tags, topics and blocked terminology page, choose Tags, and then choose Create tag.

2. In the Create tag? dialog box, enter the tag. Then, choose Create.

   Note

   • You can't start the tags with AWS or Amazon.

   • You can't enter duplicate tags.

   The tags that you added are displayed in the list under the Tags section. The users of your private re:Post can add these custom tags in questions, articles, and selections that they post in the private re:Post.

To add custom topics to your private re:Post, follow these steps:

1. On the Add custom tags, topics and blocked terminology page, choose Topics, and then choose Create topic.

2. In the Create new topic dialog box, do the following:

   For Name, enter a name for the custom topic.

   Note

   • You can't start the topics with AWS or Amazon.

   • You can't enter duplicate topics.

   For Brief description, enter a description for your topic.

   For Full description, enter a detailed description for your topic.

   For Included tags, select all tags that you want to include in this topic. You can only choose custom tags to include in a custom topic.

   Choose Create.

The topics that you added are displayed in the list under the Topics section. If a user posts a question, article, or selection with the tag that you included in the custom topic, then your private re:Post adds the topic to this content.

To add blocked terminology to your private re:Post, follow these steps:

1. Choose Blocked terminology. Then, choose Add blocked terminology.

2. In the Add blocked terminology? dialog box, enter the text that you want to block your private re:Post users from using. Then, choose Add.

   The terms that you added are displayed in the list under the Blocked terminology section. When users try to use the blocked term in their private re:Post content, they get a warning message that asks them to edit the content and remove the term.

3. Choose Continue.

Choose your topics of interest for selections

A selection is a learning path or a curated set of content assets that are relevant to a use case, technology domain, industry, or specific problem area. It's a collection of knowledge assets specific to your organization's cloud use case within AWS services and contains high-quality content from AWS sources, such as AWS re:Post, Knowledge Center, AWS Blogs, and AWS Documentation.

To choose your topics of interest for selections, follow these steps:

1. On the Select topics of interest page, select your topics of interest for selections that you want to display on the home page of your private re:Post.

   You can also use the dropdown list to select topics of your interest.

2. Choose Launch your private re:Post.

All selections with the selected topics are added to the home page for your private re:Post.

Important

Your private re:Post is launched and ready for use after the console administrator onboards users to it. For more information, see Invite users and groups to your private re:Post. The users of your private re:Post use the information in the onboarding email to sign in to your private re:Post after it's launched.