Create a subcommunity when you want to bring together a
subset of members within an existing community.
Before you begin
You must be a community owner to create
a subcommunity. When you create a subcommunity, you and any other
community owners automatically become owners of that subcommunity.
The subcommunity has exactly the same functionality as the parent
community; you can edit it, add widgets, and perform the same actions
in it as you can in the parent community.
About this task
Creating subcommunities is a useful way of organizing your
community members into smaller groups with different areas of focus.
By creating subcommunities, you can share information and collaborate
with a more targeted selection of people while maintaining the goals
and objectives of the parent community. You can add as many subcommunities
as you like to a community.
Note: You cannot create nested subcommunities
within a community, and you cannot add an existing community as a
subcommunity of another community.
Procedure
To create a subcommunity, complete the following steps.
- Log in to IBM® Connections
and open the community to which you want to add a subcommunity.
- From the Overview page, select .
- Required: Enter a name for the subcommunity
in the Name field.
- Enter one or more tags in the Tags field.
- To generate a web address for
your subcommunity, enter a one-word, unique term that identifies the
subcommunity in the Web Address field. This field displays only if you have a Web Address entry
in the parent community. If you do not want to create a web address,
ensure that you leave this field blank.
Notes: - Certain keywords with a technical meaning, such as html or atom,
are reserved and cannot be used in subcommunity web addresses. If
you enter a reserved keyword, an error message is displayed, and you
are prompted to enter a different keyword.
- If your web address contains a non-alphanumeric character, such
as an ampersand (&), you must escape the character by using a
forward slash ( / ) before the character.
- If you do not see the option to create a web address for your
subcommunity in the user interface, this means that your administrator
has disabled this option for your organization.
- Required: Specify the level
of access that you want for the community. The access options
available depend on the access level of the parent community.
- When the parent community is public, the subcommunity can have
public, moderated, or restricted access.
- When the parent community is moderated, the subcommunity can have
moderated or restricted access.
- When the parent community is restricted, the subcommunity must
also have restricted access.
- Add members to the subcommunity by doing one of the following:
- To add a subset of the parent community
membership to the subcommunity, enter the names of the people that
you want to add in the field provided.
- To add all the members of the parent community to the subcommunity,
click Add all members of this community to your new subcommunity.
Note: To be a member of a subcommunity, a person must be a member
of the parent community.
- Enter a description for the subcommunity in the Description field.
- To upload an image for the subcommunity, click Upload
a Community Image and browse for an image.
- To apply a different theme
to the subcommunity, click Change Community Theme,
and select a theme.
- If moderation is available and editable
at your site, you can select from the following options:
For more information about moderation in communities, see Moderating
community content.
- Click Save to save the subcommunity.
Results
Your subcommunity is created as a child of the parent community.
A Subcommunities link is
added to the navigation sidebar in the parent community to enable
you to open the subcommunity from the parent community. You can also
access your subcommunities from the I’m a Member or I’m
an Owner views.
What to do next
You can add content, edit, customize,
delete, and follow subcommunities, and work with them in exactly the
same way that you would a regular community.
If you are creating multiple
subcommunities within a community, consider adding the Subcommunities
widget to the parent community. This widget allows you to see all
your subcommunities at a glance and navigate easily to them from the
parent community.