Manage Community Settings

Here, you can update the community's Community Type, which determines a few default settings and the features you'll be able to enable in the Features area below.

NOTE: See Manage Community Types to learn more.

Enter a community description, purpose, or mission statement.

This information displays on the All Communities page, and is generally used to give users information about the community so they can decide whether they want to join.

Toggle to Yes/No to set whether this community is a Topic Community.

Topic Communities are special communities where all content, upon creation, must be flagged with unique Topic Tags (created by Super Admins). This ensures all content belongs to organizational-approved categories, which, in turn, makes all Topic Community content easily searchable and consumable by users interested in specific topics.

This option is only available if a Topic Community has been set up on your site. See Topic Communities to learn more.

Sets the community's join permissions:

• Invitation Only - Users can only join this community by invitation from an Admin (or other member if community members are allowed to invite).
• [site] Members - Only users belonging to Security Groups with Member rights can join this community. Those with Member permissions can also join communities set to Authenticated.
• Authenticated - Any logged in user can join this community. An authenticated user may or may not have Member status.
• Request to Join - To join this type of community, users must manually submit a request. A Community Admin or Super Admin can then either approve or reject these requests. Requests are managed per community, and placed in a queue for easy management.
  
  See Request to Join Communities to learn more.

NOTE: Communities a user can view but not join are indicated with a locked icon.

Sets the community's view permissions on the All Communities page, allowing you to hide specific communities from specific groups of users:

NOTE: This setting does NOT control who can view a community's content, just its visibility on the All Communities page.

• Invitation Only - Users can only view this community by invitation from an Admin (or other member if community members are allowed to invite).
• [site] Members - Only users belonging to Security Groups with Member rights can view this community. Those with Member permissions can also join communities set to Authenticated.
• Authenticated - Any logged in user can view this community. An authenticated user may or may not have Member status.
• Public - Both users with a login AND without a login to your site can view this community.

These options let you control whether user-created content (discussion posts, blog posts, ideation posts, and library entries) has to be approved before being available in the community.

• No Moderation - New user-created content does not require admin approval; it is immediately available in the community.
• Self Moderation - New user-created content does not require admin approval; it is immediately available in the community. However, all users who have access to the content can send it to moderation using the Mark As Inappropriate option on the post or file page (Ideation posts excepted). The user will be prompted to give a reason for marking the content as inappropriate. At this point, the content is removed and a Community or Super Admin must i) approve the moderation request to keep the content in moderation or ii) reject the request to add the content back to the community.
• Full Moderation - All new user-created content is queued in moderation and requires admin approval before being available in the community.

NOTE: A community discussion's Moderation setting is automatically applied to its associated library. For example, if set to Full Moderation, all uploaded files must be approved before they're available.

NOTE: See Manage a Community's Moderation Queue to learn more.

If enabled, members of this community can invite others to join by selecting Invite Others to Join from the Settings menu on the community's Home page (the Settings menu is located to the right of the community's title at the top of the Home page).

Check the boxes to control which features the community has available:

NOTE: The features available here are determined by the Community Type selected above (in the Type field). For example, if the Community Type doesn't allow Discussions and Microsites, these two features won't appear in the list. See Manage Community Types to learn more.

• Website - Controls whether this community has its own Microsite. If enabled, the community has its own standalone website apart from your main site, giving admins more flexibility in its layout and design. Refer to the Microsites section to learn more about Microsites and how to create them.
• Discussion - Controls whether this community has a Discussion or not.
• Library - Controls whether this community has a Resource Library or not.
• Who can create events? - Controls whether only admins or admins AND community members can create events for this community.

NOTE: Depending on the community's content and the optional modules your organization licenses, you may see other features listed here, like Blog, Announcements, Workspace, and Volunteer Opportunities.

NOTE: If the community has any of these features, you can remove them by clicking their Delete button. Keep in mind doing so removes all of their associated content.