Communities

Turn your Confluence spaces into Communities...

Communities functionality is available from the 1.1 release.

What are Community Spaces?

A normal space in Confluence is primarily a content repository used to store pages, news, comments and files. By turning a normal space in to a community space, you retain all the normal features but gain a community classification, designated membership group, permission schemes, membership management (join, invite, etc.), enrolment model (open, moderated, closed, network), home page portal and theme settings.

There's also a plethora of functionality such as listing community members, managing invite requests, listing communities of a given type and listing the communities you are a member of, etc.

Example Uses

We've seen many inventive uses for communities:

• Job roles
• Countries
• Projects
• Departments
• Conference Sessions

In short, if there's an aspect of your organisation that brings people together, create a community for it.

Creating and Managing Communities

	Creating a Community Learn how to create a community or convert an existing space into a community Learn more...		Community Configuration Learn how to admin users can setup community templates for community creation, and manage configuration of communities Learn more...
	View and Manage Community Members Learn how to view the current members of a community and to manage which communities you are a member of. Learn more...

Community Macros

	{community-info} macro Display various information about a community. Learn more...		{create-community} macro Generate a "create community" link. Learn more...
	{invite-users} macro Invite users to a community. Learn more...		{join-community} macro Generate a "join community" link. Learn more...
	{my-communities} macro Display a list of the communities that you are a member of. Learn more...		{my-invites} macro List communities that you have been invited to. Learn more...