Communities are sites within a portal designed for a specific audience or task, such as collaborative projects. You might have communities based on departments in your company. For example, the Marketing department might have a community containing press information, leads volumes, a trade show calendar, and so on. The Engineering department might have a separate community containing project milestones, regulatory compliance requirements, and technical specifications.

• To view the communities to which you belong, open the My Communities menu.
• To display a community, in the My Communities menu, click the community name.
• To join a community, in the My Communities menu, click Join Communities.
  Tip: You can also join the community you are viewing by clicking Join this community.
• To unsubscribe from a community, in the My Communities menu, click Unsubscribe Communities.
  Tip: You can also unsubscribe from the community you are viewing by clicking Unsubscribe from this community.
• To display a page in the community, in the community title bar, click the name of the page.
• To view the Community Knowledge Directory, in the community title bar, click Community Knowledge Directory. This link is available only if the community administrator has enabled the Community Knowledge Directory. The Community Knowledge Directory displays the members of the community, any subcommunities of the community, and any other folders and contents the community administrator added.
• To view the subcommunities to which you belong, open the Subcommunities menu. This menu appears only if this community contains any subcommunities. Subcommunities are separately secured subsections of a community. For example, you might have a Marketing community that contains the Advertising Subcommunity. The Advertising Subcommunity could have distinct owners; or only a subset of the Marketing community might be entitled to see the Advertising Subcommunity.
• To view a subcommunity, in the Subcommunities menu, click the subcommunity name.
• To create a new, blank page in the community you are viewing, click Create Page.
• To edit the community page you are viewing (rename the page, add, remove, or rearrange portlets), click Edit Page.
  
  • If you are viewing an adaptive page layout, the Flyout Editor opens. See Editing a Page in the Flyout Editor.
  • If you are viewing a legacy user interface, the Page Editor opens. See Editing a Page in the Page Editor.