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Creating a Sub-Community

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Go to the Community where the Sub-Community will be created and click the My Communities dropdown in the upper right corner.

Select Edit this Community.

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In the ‘Edit Community’ screen, click Subcommunities and Select

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In the resulting pop up window, Click

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Search for your ‘Agency Name Standard Community Template’

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Select your “Agency Name Standard Community Template” and Click the OK button

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On the next screen, click the “OK” button in the upper right corner. The popup window will then close. Do Not un-check the checkbox to ‘Inherit the Template’.

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Click on the ‘Properties and Names’ menu link on the left side navigation. Enter a name and description.

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Make a note of the ‘Object ID’ field. This number is needed when creating your Left Navigation portlet. The object id in this example is 3793.

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NOTE: Object IDs allow the portal to find objects even if you rename them or move them into different folders.

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Note the Sort Order property at the bottom. This field is used to specify the order in which you want your communities to display in the left navigation. The community to be at the top of the navigation portlet should be the lowest number. If you are going to use the Sort Order it is recommended that you assign these values in sets of 10. These values can be changed at any time.

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On the top right, click “Finish”. By default, the save screen will choose the folder in which the community was created.

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There is one last step. Click the “Security” tab at the top of the screen.

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This is the Security screen that displays the Access Control List (ACL) settings for this community. When you create any portal object, it will automatically inherit the ACL of its containing object. In this case, the containing object was the Agency Name Communities folder.

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Your user object (name) should appear at the bottom of the list. Since you are already a member of the Community Managers group, you generally don’t need to also be included as a separate user with Admin access. As a result, it is a best practice to remove yourself. This is true of creating any object.

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For more information regarding adding Users and Groups, see “Adding or Removing Users and Groups”.

Refer to “Security Privileges and Mandatory Settings” for more information on the four privileges and their effects as well as the purpose of the Mandatory column, which only appears for communities.

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Finally, Click the “Save” Button

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On the confirmation screen, click the “Close” button.

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Click the “Finish” button

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The Sub-Community has been created.

Note: A community must also have a Home Page in order to be viewed. Without the Home Page the user will get an error stating that they don’t have permissions or that the page does not exist.

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Click the following links to review Tutorials.

Auto-Playback and Standard TutorialsThe Standard Tutorial allows you to click through each step of the process.

PDF File of Tutorial

This concludes the lesson on Creating a Sub-Community

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