Manage communities

A community is a grouping of other communities (subcommunities) and domains. It often corresponds to the functional divisions in a company and works best if it is aligned with a company's governance organization. You can create, edit, move, and delete communities.

Create a community

You can create your own community at the top level of your organization or under another community (as a subcommunity).

Prerequisites

You have a resource role with the Community > Add resource permission.

Steps

1. On the main toolbar, click .
   The Create dialog box appears.
2. Click the Organization tab.
3. In the Community section, select Community.
   The Create Community dialog box appears.
4. Enter the required information.
   

   Field	Description
   Community	Optional parent community under which the new community will be located. Tip  If you are currently on a community page, this field shows that community by default. If you select a community in this field, the new community is created (as a subcommunity) under the selected community. If you leave this field empty, the new community is created (as a community) at the top level of your organization.
   Community name	Name of the new community. Tip  You can create multiple communities together. To do so, enter the first name, click the drop-down or press Enter, and then enter the next name. Community names must be globally unique. You can't create identically named communities even if their parent communities are different.

5. Click Create.
   

Edit a community name

You can change the name of any community.

Prerequisites

You have a resource role with the Community > Update resource permission.

Steps

1. Open the community.
2. Click → Edit.
   The Edit Community dialog box appears.
3. In the Name field, enter the new name for the community.
   Note Community names must be globally unique.
4. Click Save.

Move a community

If a custom community has a parent community, you can change its parent community by moving the custom community to a different parent community. If a community is moved to a parent community in another scope, the assignment of the community's assets may change. If moving a community causes a conflict of scopes, the conflicting resources are removed from their original scope.

If a custom community doesn't have a parent community (meaning that it is a top-level community), you can move the custom community to a parent community to make it a subcommunity.

Prerequisites

• You have a resource role with the Community > Update resource permission on the community you want to move.
• You have a resource role with the Community > Add resource permission on the parent community to which you want to move the community.

Steps

1. Open the community.
2. Click → Move.
   The Move Community dialog box appears.
3. In the Name field, enter the name of the new parent community.
   Note Community names must be unique within their parent community. If you try to move the community to a parent community that already contains a community with the same name, an error message appears after you click Save.
4. Click Save.

Delete a community

Note System-managed communities can't be deleted.

You can delete a custom community if you no longer need it. Deleting a community also deletes its views, domains, and assets.

Prerequisites

You have a resource role with the Community > Remove resource permission.

Steps

1. Open the community.
2. Click → Delete.
   

What's next

• Add domains to the community by creating a new domain or moving an existing domain.
• Add a responsibility to assign a resource role to a user or group for the community.

Related topics

Out-of-the-box communities