Creating a community
In Aurea Social, it is highly recommended to create all communities as sites and not as site collections. There are a few reasons for this:
- There is not a way to apply a community template to a site collection community.
- Community rollup capabilities work within a site collection but not across site collections.
- There have been some defects associated only with site collection communities, such as deleted ones still showing in web parts that list communities, and the Latest Blog Posts web part displaying bad links only when placed on a site collection community.
Instructions for creating communites by each of the three means follows:
- by creating a new site
- by creating a new site collection
- by converting an existing site