Communities Consoles

The AEM Communities consoles, available in the author environment from the global navigation panel, provides access to administrative tasks such as:

Creating a community site
Adding groups nested within the site
Managing community site templates
Managing community members
Moderating user generated content (UGC)
Create custom badges
Configuring the default storage for UGC

When UGC storage is configured to be a common store shared by author and publish environments, the moderation console, available from both author and publish environments, operates on a solitary instance of UGC.

In the author environment, after signing in with administrator privileges, the Communities consoles are available from the navigation and tools consoles.

NOTE

In the publish environment, a community site will display an Administration menu item when the signed in member has appropriate privileges.

Select the Adobe Experience Manager icon in the upper left corner to open the global navigation panel and access to two icons:

To access the various Communities consoles, from global navigation select navigation, Communities.

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Sites

The Sites console is accessible in the author environment for the purpose of creating and managing community sites and its groups.
Moderation

The Moderation console is for bulk moderation of UGC and in the author environment. A similar bulk moderation console is accessible in the publish environment to community members assigned the role of community moderator for one or more community sites.
Members, Groups

The Members and Groups consoles are for managing community members and member groups that exist in the publish environment from the author environment.
Reports

The Reports console is where reports on assignments, page views, and posted content (UGC) may be generated when a community site has enabled Adobe Analytics. The console is only available in the author environment.