JF 2023-07-10 SOLIDWORKS News & Info

In this video we will discuss how to create a new community and add members to that community. We will also cover the different community visibility types and who has access to them. Finally we will discuss the differences between each member role and what kind of access they grant within the community.

As an administrator you will also control the settings globally for communities on the platform. To do this, check out the Community Options in Platform Management section below.

How To

In this video you will learn how to: Create a new community, understand the community visibility options, setup a new community and modify community settings, and how to add members and understand access role types

Create Communities for Team Collaboration

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Community Visibility and Member Access Settings

Community Visibility for Employees	Member Access Rights
Public: Everyone automatically gets access (Except External Users) Community is visible in Community list for all users	Contributor: Read and interact with all content types Create content types (as specified in community settings) Delete content created by yourself (except WIKI pages)
Private: Community is discoverable to all users (Except External Users) Community is visible via the "Show All" link in the "Discover Communities" section Users can request access	Author: Read and interact with all content types Create all content types Delete content created by yourself (except WIKI pages)
Secret: Community is not discoverable to any users Community is accessible only if you are added as a member	Owner: Read and interact with all content types Create all content types Delete all content types

Community Visibility for Employees

Member Access Rights

Public:

Everyone automatically gets access (Except External Users)
Community is visible in Community list for all users

Contributor:

Read and interact with all content types
Create content types (as specified in community settings)
Delete content created by yourself (except WIKI pages)

Private:

Community is discoverable to all users (Except External Users)
Community is visible via the "Show All" link in the "Discover Communities" section
Users can request access

Author:

Read and interact with all content types
Create all content types
Delete content created by yourself (except WIKI pages)

Secret:

Community is not discoverable to any users
Community is accessible only if you are added as a member

Owner:

Read and interact with all content types
Create all content types
Delete all content types

Community Options in the Platform Management Cockpit

To access the Community options, go to the Platform Management Cockpit and select the "Communities" tab.

On this tab you will find the Communities Control Center application. Within the application there are 6 tabs to control and manage all of your platform communities.

	Create new communities Access community options for all communities on your platform Members, Statistics and Settings
	View and manage requests for new communities View and moderate reports of community abuse
	Add and manage platform 3DSwym community administrators Platform administrators are automatically added a platform community administrators
	View all media processing status Restart, view logs, or download original media
	View community statistics for all communities on your platform
	Modify community settings that apply to all communities on your platform

On the Manage Settings tab, we recommend taking note of the "Share" and "Create a Community" features

Share: Decide if you wish to allow or disallow community posts to be shared to an external social network

Create a Community: A common option is to allow members of the platform to created their own community (as shown in the video above). This setting does not allow external members to create a community.