As a community owner, you can add widgets to your community to make different types of functionality available to members.
| Widget | Description |
|---|---|
| Activities | Allows community owners to create activities
for sharing resources, assigning tasks, and organizing meetings with
community members. A community can have multiple activities. This is an optional widget. |
| Blog | Creates a blog for the use of community members.
A community can have only one blog. This is an optional widget. |
| Bookmarks | Enables community members to post relevant bookmarks
to the community. This widget is added to every community by default, but it can be removed if it is not needed. |
| Events | Lets community members schedule community events
and share information about them. This is an optional widget. |
| Feeds | Enables community members to subscribe to feeds
that are of interest to the community, directly from the community. This is an optional widget. |
| Files | Allows community members to upload and share
files and folders. This widget is added to every community by default, but it can be removed if it is not needed. |
| Forums | Enables community owners to create forums where
members can ask questions and discuss topics that are relevant to
the community. This widget is added to every community by default, but it can be removed if it is not needed. |
| Ideation Blog | Creates a central blog space where members can
post ideas and vote on other people's ideas. This is an optional widget. |
| Library | Creates a community library where members can
upload and collaborate on documents. This is an optional widget. |
| Linked Library | Links from a community to an existing document
repository on an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) server, allowing
members to upload and collaborate on documents in the linked repository. This is an optional widget. |
| Linked Quickr® Library | Links to an existing IBM Lotus® Quickr library from a community. This is an optional widget that can be downloaded from the IBM Lotus and WebSphere® Portal Business Solutions Catalog. |
| Media Gallery | Creates a media gallery where members can upload
and share photos and videos. This is an optional widget. |
| Members | Displays the existing membership of the community. This widget is added to every community by default and it cannot be removed. |
| Quickr Library | Creates an IBM Lotus Quickr place with a library, and displays
updates from that library in your community. This is an optional widget that can be downloaded from the IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog. |
| Recent Updates | Lets community members keep up-to-date on the
latest news stories and status updates on your community. This widget is added to every community by default, and it cannot be removed. |
| Related Communities | Lets you link to other communities that might
be doing work that interests your community. This is an optional widget. |
| SharePoint | Allows community members to access and manage
files stored in Microsoft SharePoint
directly from the community. This is an optional widget that can be downloaded from the IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog. |
| Status Updates | Lets you post messages to your community and
view posts by community members. This widget is added to every new community by default, and it can be removed if it is not needed. |
| Subcommunities | Allows members to see the subcommunities contained
in the parent community and navigate easily to them. This is an optional widget. |
| Wiki | Creates a community wiki where community members
can share information and resources with fellow members, and collaborate
on projects. This is an optional widget. |