3DSwym reveals the power of communities to share and innovate throughout internal and/or external ecosystems, by providing intuitive content creation tools and social interaction.

What's 3DSwym?

3DSwym provides users with an easy way to innovate by sharing their expertise, experience, knowledge or skills.

3DSwym provides the following key capabilities:

• Create and join communities to learn from other users and share knowledge using contributions and comments grouped by expertise, activity or interest.
• Engage users with social contributions and participate with others community’s members to increase innovation.
• Manage communities by selecting features that matter and inviting members that share the same skills and interests.

Here are the different types of content that can be created inside a community:

• Post: A post is a blog article that you can edit using the rich text editor. You can categorize and also enrich it by adding different types of media like images, videos, audio files, 3D Models, documents and drawings.
• Questions: Questions allow you to ask questions to all the members of a given community and receive collaborative replies.
• Ideas: Ideas are a starting point to create and innovate by sharing the knowledge of the community members. Ideas go beyond posts for they can be assessed by other users and different statuses can be applied to obtain a final community validation.
• Survey: Let you gather information via a questionnaire that can be answered by any member of the community. 
• Wiki: Wiki pages are meant to share knowledge and keep shared content updated. You can keep track of any modification thus allowing you to navigate and retrieve an older version of a wiki page. Wikis can be used as a:
  • getting started guide for new hires by gathering all the knowledge they need to start being operational quickly.
  • knowledge base to keep track of a list of links or research papers.
  • terminology or glossary database to be used in specific projects.
• Media: A media can be embedded in Posts, Questions, Ideas, Wiki Pages, answers and comments. The following types of media are supported: image, including animated gif files, 360° images, video, audio, 3D Model, document and drawings.

3 types of roles exist in a community:

• the contributor role: this person (or these persons) can basically like and comment contents. But owner(s) of the community can grant specific access to all the contributors of his/her community for certain types of contents. For example, in the Play 3DEXPERIENCE community, we have decided that contributors will be able to also write questions and ideas. Contributors will never be able to create post though.
• the author role: this person (or these persons) can like and comment contents. Authors can publish any content in the community (posts/medias/questions/surveys/ideas/wikis), can edit/delete their own content. 
• the main owner/owner role: this person (or these persons) can like and comment contents. Owners can publish/edit/delete any content in the community. They also have the right to set up the community (name, picture, ideas funnel, etc). They have access to a statistic page too. All owners can also add members to the community.

3 options are possible for the visibility of a community:

• public: internally, and for now, only major corporate communities are set to public. Public communities can be accessed by every platform user without having to ask for permission to join. 
• private: this type of community is the main one used on our internal platform. It allows these communities to be found via the Search so that users can ask to join them. Once their requests have been accepted by the community owners, then these users will be able to read the content. 
• secret: this visibility is meant for secret project mainly. Secret communities can't be searchable via the Search, which means that no user can find it unless a community owner has added them to the community.