What a new tribe starts with

Opening a tribe should not mean writing its web page from scratch. Gorilla Dash copies a set of defaults into every new tribe, and those defaults are yours to write.

What a new tribe inherits

Page copy — banner headings and captions, search engine title and description, page headings, the introduction and the team introduction.
Email templates — every organisation template marked as available to tribes.
Opening hours — nine to five, Monday to Friday.
Timezone — your organisation's.
Website content blocks — from the tribe types you chose.

Writing the defaults

The Manage Default Content screen under Tribes holds the page copy. Write it once, with merge fields so each tribe reads correctly — the tribe name and your organisation name are substituted as the copy is copied in.

WORTH DOING BEFORE YOU OPEN THE NEXT TWENTY

Good defaults mean a new tribe launches with a complete, sensible page on day one. Poor defaults mean fifty tribes quietly carrying placeholder text, because nobody at tribe level ever notices it is there.

Changing the defaults later

EXISTING TRIBES DO NOT PICK UP A CHANGED DEFAULT

The content is copied at the moment a tribe is created, not linked to it. Improving your defaults helps every tribe you open afterwards and changes nothing about the ones you already have. Those have to be updated individually, or by using Populate Default Content on each — which overwrites whatever they have written.

Website fields come from the tribe type

The content blocks on a tribe's page are defined by its tribe type, each with its own default value. Adding a field to a type later does push it out to the tribes that already have that type — unlike the page copy, which does not.

Opening hours

A new tribe gets a standard weekday week so it is never left with no hours at all, which would quietly remove it from parts of your reporting. Correct them to the tribe's real hours as part of opening it.