My Communities

Communities are sites within a portal designed for a specific audience or task, such as collaborative projects. The portlets, layout, community preferences, and subcommunities within a community are determined by community administrators.

My Communities Menu

The My Communities menu displays the communities to which you belong. If you do not belong to any communities, click Join Communities at the bottom of any My Page or Knowledge Directory page. If you belong to one or more communities, in the My Communities menu, click the name of the community to view.

When you are viewing a community, the My Communities menu displays the following:

• The name of the community you are viewing.

• Links to any additional pages in the community.

• If enabled by a community administrator, a link to the Community Members and Knowledge Directory. The Community Members and Knowledge Directory includes the following folders:

  • Members, which includes a list of all the groups that are mandatory members of this community and the users that are members (mandatory or not) of this community. To view the user profile for a member, click the user's name.
  • Subcommunities, which includes a list of this community's subcommunities. To view a subcommunity, click its name.

  • Other folders created by the community administrators. These folders can include links to Knowledge Directory documents, Web pages, users, or community pages.

  For more information, refer to Community Members and Knowledge Directory.

• Under Subcommunities, links to any subcommunities to which you have access. Subcommunities are separately secured communities within a community.

• Under Related Communities, links to any related communities to which you have access. Related communities are communities that are stored in the same administrative object folder as the current community.

Page Options

The following page options are available:

• Join Communities—allows you to add yourself as a member to any communities to which you have access.
• Unsubscribe Communities—allows you to remove yourself from communities to which you belong. You cannot remove yourself from mandatory communities.
• Add Portlets—allows you to add portlets to the page you are viewing. This option is available only if you manage the community.
• Edit Portlet Preferences—allows you to set your preferences for portlets on this page.

To navigate to the page options, click Jump to Community Page Options.

To see a list of access keys that allow you to navigate the portal with your keyboard, refer to Access Keys.

To learn about the functions available at the top of the portal, refer to My Home, My Account, Logging Off, Help, and Searching.

To learn about the My Pages menu, refer to My Pages.

To learn about the Directory menu, refer to Browse Directory.