ATG Portal provides two methods for copying an existing community to make multiple similar communities. You can do this using the Community Templates and New Community Template pages in the Portal Administration, or you can do this using a command line tool named SpawnCommunity. Using community templates through the Portal Administration may be easiest when you have just a few new communities to create based on a template. Using the SpawnCommunity tool may be easier if you have a large number of new communities to create.
Once you’ve created a community template, you can use the ATG Portal Process Automation (Portal.ppa) tools to create workflows that can automate the process of creating new communities from the template. See Automating the Portal Creation Process for more information.
