- Communities Guide
- Introduction to AEM Communities
- Communities Sites
- AEM Communities Overview
- AEM Communities Release Notes
- Getting Started with AEM Communities
- Getting Started with AEM Communities for Enablement
- Initial Setup
- Author a New Community Site
- Experience the Published Site
- Authoring Nested Groups
- Initial Setup for Enablement
- Author a New Community Site for Enablement
- Create and Assign Enablement Resources
- Experience the Published Enablement Site
- Deploying
- Administering
- User and UGC Management Service in AEM Communities
- Communities Sites
- Communities Consoles
- Analytics Configuration for Communities Features
- Configuring Enablement Features
- Configuring Messaging
- Moderating Community Content
- Configuring Email
- Communities Notifications
- Communities Subscriptions
- Communities Scoring and Badges
- Managing Users and User Groups
- Community Groups Console
- Social Login with Facebook and Twitter
- SRP - Community Content Storage
- Communities Sites Console
- Members & Groups Management Consoles
- Moderation Console
- Communities Tools
- Site Templates
- Group Templates
- Community Functions
- Storage Configuration
- Badges Console
- Enablement Resources Console
- Reports Console
- MySQL Configuration for Enablement Features
- FFmpeg for Communities
- In-Context Moderation
- Advanced Scoring and Badges
- ASRP - Adobe Storage Resource Provider
- MSRP - MongoDB Storage Resource Provider
- How to Setup MongoDB for Demo
- DSRP - Relational Database Storage Resource Provider
- MySQL Configuration for DSRP
- JSRP - JCR Storage Resource Provider
- Solr Configuration for SRP
- Tagging Enablement Resources
- Tagging User Generated Content
- Translating User Generated Content
- Communities User Synchronization
- Member Contribution Limits
- Developing
- Developing Communities
- Social Component Framework
- Community Components Guide
- Component, Function and Feature Essentials
- Tutorials
- Troubleshooting
- Coding Guidelines
- Server-side Customization
- Client-side Customization
- SCF Handlebars Helpers
- Storage Resource Provider Overview
- Community Site Essentials
- Activity Stream Essentials
- Assignments Essentials
- Blog Essentials
- Calendar Essentials
- Catalog Essentials
- Clientlibs for Communities Components
- Comments Essentials
- OSGi Events for Communities Components
- Featured Content Essentials
- File Library Essentials
- Forum Essentials
- Community Group Essentials
- Ideation Essentials
- Leaderboard Essentials
- Liking Essentials
- Messaging Essentials
- QnA Essentials
- Rating Essentials
- Reviews Essentials
- Rich Text Editor Essentials
- Scoring and Badges Essentials
- Search Essentials
- Component Sideloading
- Social Graph Essentials
- SRP and UGC Essentials
- Tag Essentials
- Tally Essentials
- Voting Essentials
- Setup Website Structure
- Create an SCF Sandbox
- Initial Sandbox Application
- Initial Sandbox Content
- Develop Sandbox Application
- Develop Sandbox Content
- Add Clientlibs
- Overlay Comments Component
- Create Comments Page
- Create Nodes
- Alter the Appearance
- Create the Components
- Add Comment to Sample Page
- Extend Comments Component
- Alter the Appearance (HBS)
- Create a Sample Page
- Accessing UGC with SRP
- Using Maven for Communities
- Naming Conventions
- SocialUtils Refactoring
- Authoring
- Communities Components
- Communities Components Basics
- Activity Streams Feature
- Assignments Feature
- Blog Feature
- Calendar Feature
- Catalog Feature
- Using Comments
- Featured Content Feature
- File Library Feature
- Forum Feature
- Community Groups
- Ideation Feature
- Leaderboard Feature
- Using Liking
- Messaging Feature
- Q&A Forum Feature
- Using Ratings
- Using Reviews and Reviews Summary (Display)
- Search Feature
- Using Social Graph
- Activity Trends
- Using Social Tag Cloud
- Using Voting
- Create a Sample Page
Group Templates
The Group Templates console is similar to the Site Templates console. Both are blueprints for a set of pre-wired pages and features which form a community site. The difference is that a site template is for the main community and a group template is for a community group, a sub-community nested within the main community.
A community group is incorporated into a site template by including the Groups function (which may not be the first nor only function in the template).
As of Communities feature pack 1, it is possible to nest groups by including the Groups function within a group template.
The moment an action is taken to create a new community group, the group’s template (structure) is selected. The selection depends on how the Groups function was configured when added to the site or group template.
The consoles for the creation of community sites, community site templates, community group templates and community functions are for use only in the author environment.
Group Templates Console
To reach the groups templates console in the AEM Author environment:
- Select Tools | Communities | Group Templates, from global navigation.
This console displays the templates from which a community site can be created and allows new group templates to be created.
Create Group Template
To get started creating a new group template, select Create.
This will bring up the Site Editor panel which contains 3 sub-panels:
Basic Info
On the Basic Info panel, a name, description and whether the template is enabled or disabled are configured:
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New Group Template Name
The template name id.
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Description
The template description.
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Disabled/Enabled
A toggle switch controlling whether the template is referenceable.
Thumbnail
(Optional) Select the Upload Image icon to display a Thumbnail along with the Name and Description to creators of community sites.
Structure
If working with AEM 6.1 Communities FP4 or earlier, do not add a groups function to a group template.
The nested groups feature is available as of Communities FP1.
It is still not allowed to add a Groups function as the first or only function in a template.
To add community functions, drag from the right side to the left in the order the site menu links should appear. Styles will be applied to the template during creation of the site.
For example, if you want a forum, drag the forum function from the library and drop under the template builder. This will result in the forum configuration dialog opening. See the functions console for information about the configuration dialogs.
Continue drag-and-drop of any other community functions desired for a sub-community site (group) based on this template.
Once all desired functions have been dropped into the template builder area and configured, select Save in the upper right corner.
Edit Group Template
When viewing community groups in the main Group Templates console, it is possible to select an existing group template for edit.
Editing a group template will not affect community sites already created from the template. It is possible to directly edit a community site’s structure instead.
This process provides the same panels as creating a group template.
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