A hub is a page you build for your members out of rows and elements: a start page, a resource corner, a page for one group. You decide what is on it and who may open it. The page list describes hubs as "the custom pages your members see", and that is the whole idea: one place where you collect information and tools for a specific audience.
How a hub differs from a course
A course is structured learning: lessons, exams and progress per member. A hub has no lessons and no progress. It is a free layout of rows and columns that you fill with elements such as text, video, an image gallery, a countdown or a list of courses. Many workspaces use both: the course holds the teaching, the hub is the page that points members to it.
Where hubs live
Hubs appear in the admin under Hubs. The page has two tabs, Hubs and Templates. The table lists every hub with the columns Name, Categories, Members, Status and Created. You can also show Last edited, Elements and Access, and filter by Status, Access, Category, Members and Created.
The status filter knows two values: Live for hubs that have a published version and Draft for hubs that have never been published. The access filter separates hubs open to All members from Restricted hubs.
The three-dot menu on each row holds Edit, Analytics, Manage Access, Duplicate, Save as template (with the Create Hub Template permission) and Delete. View and Copy link appear only once the hub is published, because before that there is nothing a member could open.
Depending on what you chose when you set up your workspace, Hubs may be switched off. You can switch them on or off at any time on the features page. While the feature is off, the hub pages in the admin and the member area are not reachable.
Draft and published version
Every hub has a draft that you edit and, once you publish, a published version that members see. Your edits save as you go, but members keep seeing the published version until you publish again. That way you can rebuild a hub over several days without members seeing a half-finished page. How versions and publishing work in detail is covered in Hub templates and publishing.
Who can open a hub
A member sees a hub when two things are true: the hub has a published version, and the member is assigned to it, either directly or through a group. You set this under Manage Access, which has the tabs Members and Groups. When Payments is switched on under Settings > Features, two more tabs appear: Products and Bundles.
For a hub that every member should see, there is a shortcut. Select one or more hubs in the list and choose Access > Make available to all. This assigns the built-in group All members, which always contains every member of your workspace, so new members get access without further steps. Restrict access removes that group again. Members you assigned directly or through another group keep their access.
Team members with the View Hub permission can open every published hub, even without being assigned to it. That lets your team check what members see without adding themselves to the hub.
A member who opens a hub they are not assigned to sees a no access page instead of the content.
Permissions for your team
Each hub action has its own permission, so you can separate building from publishing:
- View Hub opens the hub list and the categories.
- Create Hub creates and duplicates hubs.
- Update Hub changes hub settings and categories.
- Edit Hub works in the editor: rows and elements.
- Publish Hub publishes a version and lists older versions.
- Delete Hub deletes hubs.
- Assign Member or Group to Hub changes who has access.
Templates have four more: View Hub Templates, Create Hub Template, Update Hub Template and Delete Hub Template. The built-in Content Manager role has all of them. You assign roles under Settings > Team & Roles; see Team and permissions.
Categories and the trash
Categories group hubs in the admin. They help you and your team find a hub in a long list. The list itself says it plainly: Hub categories are only shown to team members. Members never see them.
A deleted hub is not gone right away. It moves to the trash, where you can restore it. Restoring counts toward the number of hubs your plan allows, just like creating one. More in The trash.
Next steps
- Creating a Hub walks through the first hub, its settings, access and categories.
- Hub rows and elements explains the editor.
- Element types reference lists every element you can place.