Communities Sites

This section is for those who administer AEM Communities and assumes familiarity with AEM Communities features.

Overview

For an overview and getting started tutorials, visit:

• AEM Communities Overview
• Getting Started with AEM Communities
• Getting Started with AEM Communities for Enablement

Administration and Configuration Topics

Communities Site Creation and Management

• Communities consoles

  • Sites

    • Groups (sub-communities)

  • Moderation

  • Members and Groups Management

  • Enablement Resources

  • Reports

• Communities tools:

  • Site Templates
  • Group Templates
  • Community Functions
  • Storage Configuration
  • Component Guide
  • Badges

User Generated Content

A major feature of AEM Communities is the generation of user generated content (UGC) by signed in site visitors (members). To learn more about working with UGC visit:

• Common UGC Store: choice of SRP for shared storage of UGC
• Moderating UGC: trusted members may moderate UGC in bulk or in-context
• Tagging UGC: features may be configured to allow members to tag content
• Translating UGC: features may be configured to translate all UGC or allow members to translate selected posts
• Analytics Configuration: enabling Adobe Analytics to report on various metrics regarding member activity

Community Members

• Managing Users and User Groups: details of community members and member groups, including privileged members.
• Contribution Limits: ability to constrain posting by new members.
• Tunnel Service: allows publish-side members and member groups to be accessed from the author environment.
• Members and Groups consoles: allows publish-side members and member groups to be created and managed from the author environment.
• User Synchronization: for synchronizing members and member groups across multiple publish instances.
• Social Login with Facebook and Twitter: ability for site visitors to become a community member using their Facebook or Twitter credentials.
• Scoring and Badges: ability for badges to be assigned to identify role(s) of a member and for members to earn badges through their participation in the community.
• Notifications: ability for members to be notified of activity they follow.
• Subscriptions: ability for members to interact with the community using external email.
• Messaging: ability for members to interact with the community using internal messages.

Enablement Features

• Configuring Enablement: necessary information to correctly setup the enablement features.
• Analytics Configuration: necessary information for enabling Adobe Analytics for Communities features.
• Tagging Enablement Resources: necessary for creating enablement catalogs.

Deployment

The deployment section contains information specific to AEM Communities.

The nature of working with community content influences the structure of the deployment:

• Recommended Topologies for Communities

It is important to install the most recent Communities release on the AEM platform:

• Latest Communities Feature Pack

See the deployment page for other Communities specific information, such as for Upgrading, Dispatcher and Replication.

Related Communities Documentation

• Visit Deploying Communities to learn about recommended deployments.

• Visit Developing Communities to learn about the social component framework (SCF) and customizing Communities components and features.

• Visit Authoring Communities Components to learn how to author with and configure Communities components.