Converting an existing site into a community

A non-community site can be converted into a community using the Community Web feature. To convert, do the following:

1. Go to the Site Action > Site Settings for the site.



Navigate to Site Settings

2. From here, click the Manage site features link.



click the Manage site features

3. Activate the NewsGator Community Web feature.



Click Activate

This automatically activates the Web Context feature and the Social Newsfeed Integration feature. These are infrastructural features to capture events.

After this feature is active, the follow/stop following control and activity stream are automatically added to the front page of the team site.

Any notifications is displayed to site owners in the yellow message bar. Admins can customize the layout and add the community members part if thumbnails and access to a members page is desired.

Notification displayed on yellow ribbon

Also, a link is included in the Site Settings page to get to a community administration page that provides the same functionality as the Admin tab does in a community created through the wizard and utilizing the NewsGator Master Page.

For further details, see Creating and setting up a brand new public community (site-level).

Site Settings page