To Access a Community Directly

1. Community URL refers to the URL of a community page. Typically, the community URL is http://your-server:port/portal-id/dt?dt.community=CommunityName.

   The Communities home page allows users to browse and/or search communities, view list of their communities, preview and visit interesting communities, and create communities using the community portlets. For more information on the community portlets, see Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 Technical Reference

   By default, for each community that the user is a member of, they will have a community page that allows the user to interact with the services, leave the community, and remove the community if the user is the owner. The community visitor page allows users to preview a community and join the community.

   Community URLs can be:

   • Bookmarked in a browser.

   • Emailed to another user who can click on the link from their mail reader to access the community.

   • Entered directly into a browser, by hand.

   Community URLs are cross-organization. The same URL will work in any community enabled organization. This allows a user in one organization to send a community URL to a user in another organization. If a community URL is accessed by an unauthenticated user, the user is redirected to a login page and then taken to the community after successfully logging in. The community system home page does not require login. If a user is a member of a community, the community URL will take the user to the community member page. Otherwise, the user will be taken to the community visitor page.