How do you create a community?

Introduction

A community brings together employees around a site, a service or a theme. There are two types of communities:

• Manual : you select the employees who are part of it yourself.

• Dynamic : the members are determined automatically from one or more services and locations. The list updates itself whenever employees' assignments change.

Creation takes place in three steps.

Step 1 — Information

Enter:

• the last name of the community (required);

• a description (optional), to explain the purpose of the community and what is shared there.

Step 2 — Members

Choose how the members are defined, using the selector Manual / Dynamic.

Manual : search for and select employees one by one. You can add or remove them at any time.

Dynamic : choose one or more services and/or locations. Employees matching the selected services and locations will be members; the list is updated automatically when assignments change.

Step 3 — First content

Choose the first content created automatically with the community. You can modify it later:

• a section, to organize the community's posts;

• a conversation, a group discussion for members;

• a folder, to share documents.

Validate to create the community.

After creation

You will be redirected to the new community's space.

For a dynamic, adding members happens in the background: the members list may be completed a few moments after creation.

To go further

• How do you manage the members of a community?

• How do you manage community membership requests?

• How do you delete a community?

What the assistant can do

Creating a community is done in Steeple: the assistant does not create it for you. Once the community is created, however — with Administration scope — it can add or remove members, and it can guide you to the creation page.