The first step to creating a portal is creating a community. Each community is a group of users for whom the portal is designed. The community is, in effect, your audience. Communities are created by Portal Administrators, using the Communities tab in the Portal Administration.
Enter the Portal Administration and click on the Communities tab.
Click New Community.
The New Community Page opens.
Select or create a folder for the community.
The community can reside within an existing folder, or you can create a new folder for the community.
Enter a Community Name and a Web-Friendly URL.
The Community Name is used in the portal and the Portal Administration to refer to the community. The Web-Friendly URL is used in generating the URL for the Community pages. As a result, non-alphanumeric characters are stripped out of the Web-Friendly URL.
You can also specify other settings for the new community now, or you can specify them later as you develop the community; these are described in the Editing a Community section.
Click Save.
The community is created, but is left inactive.
To make the community available online, select Active from the Status dropdown list on the New Community page in the Portal Administration or the Community Settings Page in the Community Administration and click Update.
You can also create multiple similar communities using a community template. For example, if you are creating a portal for an organization with many local branches, you can create a community for one branch, using the procedure described in this section. You can then create a community template based on this community, then use the template to create a similar community for each branch. For a description of how to make and use a community template, see Creating Communities from Community Templates
