Add a library to your community to give members a central
place to store and work with community files.
Before you begin
To create a community library, the IBM® Connections Content Manager add-on must be
installed for your deployment.
About this task
When you are a community owner, you can create libraries
in your community by adding the Library widget or link to existing
libraries using the Linked Library widget. You can create or link
to multiple libraries from your community, and give the libraries
different names to distinguish between them.
When you create a community
library using the Library widget, the library is created on the Enterprise
Content Management (ECM) server and access to the library is granted
based on community membership. When you link to an existing library
using the Linked Library widget, permissions for working with files
and folders in the library are set on the ECM server.
Procedure
To add a library to a community, complete the following
steps.
- From the Overview page, select .
- Complete one or more of the following tasks:
- To create a community library, click Library.
The Library widget is added to your community's Overview page.
You can open the full application by selecting Library from
the navigation sidebar.
- To link to an existing library, click Linked Library.
The Linked Library is added to your community's Overview page.
You can open the full application by selecting Linked Library from
the navigation sidebar.
- Optional: Close the widget palette.
What to do next
After creating a community library by adding the Library
widget, click
Add Your First File to start
uploading files and working with them. After adding the Linked Library
widget, you must create a connection to an ECM server so that you
can access and start working with the files in a linked library. For
more information, see
How do I connect to an ECM server.
If
you are creating multiple community libraries or linking to multiple
libraries, you might want to rename them to make it easier to distinguish
between them. For more information, see Managing libraries.