Creating subcommunities to reflect organizational change

Create a subcommunity to bring together a subset of members within an existing community for a specific purpose.

What can members do in a subcommunity?

When you create a subcommunity, you and any other community owners automatically become owners of that subcommunity.

Create a subcommunity

  1. Open the community to which you want to add a subcommunity.
  2. Click Community Actions > Create Subcommunity.
  3. Follow the instructions in the wizard. The most important field is the subcommunity's Access type. The access options depend on the access level of the parent community.
    • When the parent community is Public to my organization, the subcommunity can be public, moderated, or restricted.
    • When the parent community is Moderated, the subcommunity can be moderated or restricted.
    • When the parent community is Restricted, the subcommunity must also be restricted.
  4. Click Create.

Some tips

A subcommunity cannot be more visible than its parent. Therefore, if a parent community does not have Let anyone in my organization see the community's title, description, tags, and owners selected in the parent community's profile setting, the subcommunity cannot have this set either.

You cannot change the External access setting for a new subcommunity. That is, all subcommunities have the same setting for external access as the parent community.

What's next?

Subcommunities display on the Communities page. If the Subcommunities app is added to the parent community, any subcommunities also appear on the parent's Overview page.

A Subcommunities link is added to the navigation bar in the parent community to enable you to open the subcommunity from the parent community. You can also access your subcommunities from the I’m a Member or I’m an Owner views.