Community Platform User Guide
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Accessing the Community
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Navigate to your Community's URL. If you are not already signed in, you will be redirected to the login page.
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If you are not signed in, enter your membership account credentials and click Login
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If already signed in, or after signing in to your account, you will be redirected to the Communities home page. Click a community to view its Community Page.
Community Page
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The Community Page contains four tabs:
- Community Members lists all members currently in the Community
- Community Information can contain information about the Community or important notes added by the Community Moderators
- Posts contains all Member discussions
- File Library contains a repository of files uploaded by Members and Moderators
The Posts tab is selected by default
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View of the Community Members tab. Note the community list can be exported to Excel.
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View of the Community Information tab. Moderators have access to edit the contents of this page.
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View of the File Library page. Files can be saved inside folders or directly in the main file list. There are options for both a text search and a tag search to filter listed files.
Creating a New Post
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To create a new Post, click the Submit a new Post button. The button is at the top of the page by default and moves to the bottom right of the window when scrolling down.\
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Below shows the location of the new Post button in its default location
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And the location of the new Post button when scrolling down the Posts page
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A popup dialogue will then appear. Enter the title of the Post and your Comment.
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Then, click the Add Post button to create your Post.
Uploading Files
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Click the File Library tab from the Community Page. Then click the Upload New File button
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Select a folder to save your file (optional). Then, give your file a friendly name.
You have the option to either upload a file directly to the Community File Library OR enter a URL where the file can be located. Entering a URL is helpful when you want to collaborate on a live document, for example.
Finally, enter any tags you would like to be used to identify the document in a search (optional) and click the Add button to complete the file upload process.
Subscribing to Posts
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On the Community Page, Posts section, click the Subscribe button to receive an email notification when new Comments are added to that Post.\
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NOTE: You will automatically be subscribed to a Post that you create as well as one that you comment on.
