What is a Cliq network and how to set it up?

What is a Cliq network and how to set it up?

Cliq network is a dedicated space to collaborate with your external business stakeholders such as partners, vendors, agencies, consultants, volunteers and more. It equips you with an extensive set of configurable permissions to facilitate controlled secure and full-fledged external collaboration.

Pre-requisites:

To create a Cliq network, you need to have an existing Cliq organization.

Who can create a Cliq Network?

Admins or users with admin roles, in the Cliq business organization, can create Cliq Networks.

Follow the below steps to set up your Cliq network:

  1. Create a Cliq network from the Cliq organization's admin panel.
  2. Navigate to Admin Panel > Network -Network Info. Enter your network-related information, such as your network's contact information, address information, and regional information. 
  3. Head to Admin Panel > Customization. Set up Themes, Assets, Custom Domain and Emailers
  4. Go to Configurations and configure feature-related settings to manage how you want your network to connect, communicate and collaborate.
  5. Navigate to Permission > Policies. Enable policies as per your network's preferences
  6. Navigate to Permission > Roles.  Add Roles
  7. Navigate to Users & Profile. Create teams, departments, and designations
  8. Navigate to Customization > User fields. Edit user field layout for Web iOS Android and customize user field as per your network's preferences 
  9. Add members to your Cliq network by sending  a network join invite link or by adding users in the Users & Profiles
  10. Delegate admin privileges to a few members to manage the network
  11. Add the users who joined via the network join link to their respective roles, designation, department and team.
  12. Create public teams, channels and group chats to collaborate.
  13. Navigate to the marketplace and install applications your network members use in their day-to-day workflow
Note: The user and the created network should be in the same DC to join a network.
Here are a few help documents to help you create and manage Networks:
  1. Difference between Cliq's Network and Business Organization
  2. How to create a Cliq Network?
  3. How to access Cliq Networks?
  4. How to create a user invite link in Cliq Network?
  5. How to moderate the awaiting user invite links requests?
  6. Where can I find the user invite links I created?
  7. How to deactivate the generated invite link?
  8. How to edit the name, expiry date and mode of joining of a pre-created user invite link?
  9. How to re-approve a rejected user invite link?
  10. How to add users to a Network via the network admin panel?
  11. How to join a Cliq Network via a user invite link? 
  12. How to edit your Cliq Network details?
  13. I am an owner of a Cliq network, how can I assign a new owner before I leave the network?
  14. How to deactivate a Cliq Network?
  15. How to upgrade my Cliq Network?
  16. How can Cliq Network users create teams?
  17. How can admins create teams in a Cliq Network?
  18. How can the Network admin approve the teams created by the network members?
  19. How to join a Cliq Network team?
  20. How to enable permission for users to create teams in a Network?
  21. How to approve the users who have requested to join your team?
  22. How to leave a team?
  23. How to delete a team in Networks?
  24. Difference between Cross org Users DM, External Channel and Networks
Networks can be purchased as add-ons to the Cliq organization. Below are the pricing details for your reference.