My Communities
Communities are sites within a portal designed for a specific audience
or task, such as collaborative projects. The pages, portlets, layout,
community preferences, and subcommunities within a community are determined
by the community creator or administrator. Although the community administrators
determine which portlets are displayed on each community page, a portlet
itself might allow community members to change the content within each
portlet.
This topic discusses:
My Communities Menu
To view the communities to which you belong, open
the My Communities menu.
To display a community, in the My
Communities menu, click the community name.
To join or leave community, in the My
Communities menu, click Edit My
Communities. For information on joining or leaving communities,
see Edit My Communities.
Tip: You can also join the community you are viewing by clicking
Join this community
or leave the community you are viewing by clicking 
Unsubscribe from this community.
To display a page in the community, in the community
title bar, click the name of the page.
Community Knowledge Directory
If the community administrator has enabled the Community Knowledge Directory,
you see a Community Knowledge Directory
link in the community title bar. The Community Knowledge Directory displays
the members of the community, any subcommunities of the community, and
any other folders and contents the community administrator added.
To view the Community Knowledge Directory, in
the community title bar, click Community
Knowledge Directory. For more information on the Community Knowledge
Directory, see Community
Knowledge Directory.
Subcommunities
If this community contains any subcommunities, you see a Subcommunities
menu. Subcommunities are separately secured subsections of a community.
For example, you might have a Marketing community that contains the Advertising
Subcommunity. The Advertising Subcommunity could have distinct owners;
or only a subset of the Marketing community might be entitled to see the
Advertising Subcommunity.
To view the subcommunities to which you belong,
open the Subcommunities menu.
To view a subcommunity, in the Subcommunities
menu, click the subcommunity name.
Managing Community Pages
If you have at least Edit access to the community, you can create new
community pages or edit existing ones:
To create a new, blank page in the community you
are viewing, click 
Create
Page.
To edit the community page you are viewing (rename
the page, add, remove, or rearrange portlets), click 
Edit Page.
If you are viewing an adaptive page layout,
the Flyout Editor opens.
If you are viewing a legacy page layout,
the Community Editor opens, displaying the Community
Pages page.
Note: The following portlet
comes with the portal software and can be added to a community page:
Managing
a Portlet Through the Portlet's Title Bar
To refresh a portlet, click 
.
If this portlet does not include refresh functionality, you will not see
this button.
To edit your personal preferences for the portlet,
click 
. If this portlet does not have personal preferences,
you will not see this button.
To minimize a portlet so that only the title bar
appears on the page, click 
.
To maximize a portlet so that the entire portlet
displays, click 
.
To remove a portlet from the page, click 
. You must have at least Edit access to the community to see
this button.
Note: Your portal administrator
might use a navigation scheme with menu options that differ from what
is described in this topic.
To learn about the functions available at the top of the portal, see
Portal Banner Functions.