Communities

Communities are collections of Users who have a common interest. WebSynergy's default pages are in the 'Guest' community, because everyone-whether they are anonymous or members of the portal has common interest in the default public pages of your site.

There are three types of Communities:

• Open

• Restricted

• Private

An Open Community (the default) allows portal users to join and leave the Community whenever they want to, provided they have access to a Communities portlet from which to do this. A Restricted Community requires that users be added to the Community by a community administrator. Users may use the 'Communities' portlet to request membership. A Private community do not allow users to join and to leave the community.

• Defining Communities

• Assigning Users to Communities

Defining Communities

To be done.

To add a Community

1. Login to WebSynergy as Admin user.

2. Click 'Add Applications' from the welcome menu.

3. Click 'Add' against the 'Communities' portlet.

4. Click 'Add Community'.

5. Specify the Name, Description, Type, and Active attributes for the community. Open is the default type.

6. Click Save to save the community.

Assigning Users to Communities

To be done.

To Assign Users to a Community

1. Login to WebSynergy as Admin user.

2. Click 'Add Applications' from the welcome menu.

3. Click 'Add' against the 'Communities' portlet.

4. Click 'Available Communities' to list all available communities.

5. Click the 'Actions' button for the community, and select 'Assign Members' from the menu.

   All the current Users, Organizations, and User Groups are listed in their respective tabs.

6. Click 'Available' tab under 'Users' tab to list all available users.

7. Select the checkbox against each of the users who you want to assign as members.

8. Click 'Update Associations' button to assign selected users as members.

9. Click 'Current' tab to view the current members which includes the new members assigned to the community.