Community portal view
Also known as Community Discovery Portal, this web part creates an attractive community discovery page to help organizations provide a single place for users to discover communities.
It features the ability to specify some communities as promoted to ensure they always display. It also shows recommended communities and provides users with tag and text search options for discovering communities.
The above screenshot shows two communities which are “promoted”. This means they were selected by an owner of this site.
You can have multiple community portal pages – each one that is in a separate site collection can have a separate list of promoted communities.
The default view also contains recommended communities which looks at the user’s “Interests” field in the profile as well as things like number of colleagues following those communities to find matches.
The popular communities have high amounts of activity as well as high numbers of followers.
The controls on the right allow searching and browsing by specific categories.
This gives users access to longer lists of results than the default view.
The browse by topic shows tags that have been entered either as a Classification or Interest Community Tag.