Configuring communities Configure various aspects of Communities based on the specific requirements of your organization. Community content typesThere are seven supported content types: Answer, Blog, Comment, Document, Event, Question, and Video.Community feedback typesThere are two supported feedback types: Upvote and Helpful.Community access typesAccess types are used to control access to a forum or a content type.Platform Analytics Solutions for CommunitiesThis Platform Analytics Solution contains preconfigured dashboards. These dashboards contain actionable data visualizations that help you improve your business processes and practices.Migrate Social Q&A data to CommunitiesIf you want to migrate existing Social Q&A content to Communities, you can use a script to migrate the data.View community logsCommunity logs display information about who has viewed or searched for content in a community. The list view displays all log entries, unless filtered.View community feedback and bookmarks tablesView feedback and bookmarks tables to view which community content was given feedback or was bookmarked.Create a case from a discussionIn order to engage your internal experts to reply to discussion threads, you can create cases directly from community questions.Enable knowledge harvestingConfigure knowledge harvesting from a community to convert unstructured conversations to structured knowledge articles and make the information more accessible.Activate Communities pluginsActivate the Customer Communities plugin to use the Communities application.Community setup guide for adminsDefine your requirements with community and forum stakeholders and set up your forums for community users to start creating content.Configure community content typesConfigure content types, such as videos and blogs, for the community.Configure video sources for a communityConfigure additional sources that can be used for uploading a video to the community.Configure community forumsA forum is a place for users to share content, exchange notes, ask and answer questions, and so on. Before community users can contribute content, configure a forum with content types and permissions, and create and add topics to one or more forums.Forum and user permissions managementCommunity and forum administrators can give users and groups of users different levels of access to forums and forum content.Configure the community profileSet up the community profile by configuring profile fields and deciding which fields to display in the personal information section of the community profile.Create community Terms and ConditionsCommunity members must follow the community rules of conduct. Create community Terms and Conditions and them share to build a successful community. Every community user must review and accept the Terms and Conditions before contributing to a community.Enable users to self-register to a communityOnce users have accessed public forums and decided they want to join the community, they can self-register to the community. External user registration provides a way of validating users and requires them to accept the community Terms and Conditions.Moderate a communityCommunity moderators can manage content quality by reducing the inappropriate content that is posted on the community.Administer gamificationUsers with the gamification administrator role can create the rules and other entities that award points to users based on their participation within the community.Community Service PortalThe Community Service Portal is a web interface that is based on the ServiceNow Service Portal application.
Configuring communities Configure various aspects of Communities based on the specific requirements of your organization. Community content typesThere are seven supported content types: Answer, Blog, Comment, Document, Event, Question, and Video.Community feedback typesThere are two supported feedback types: Upvote and Helpful.Community access typesAccess types are used to control access to a forum or a content type.Platform Analytics Solutions for CommunitiesThis Platform Analytics Solution contains preconfigured dashboards. These dashboards contain actionable data visualizations that help you improve your business processes and practices.Migrate Social Q&A data to CommunitiesIf you want to migrate existing Social Q&A content to Communities, you can use a script to migrate the data.View community logsCommunity logs display information about who has viewed or searched for content in a community. The list view displays all log entries, unless filtered.View community feedback and bookmarks tablesView feedback and bookmarks tables to view which community content was given feedback or was bookmarked.Create a case from a discussionIn order to engage your internal experts to reply to discussion threads, you can create cases directly from community questions.Enable knowledge harvestingConfigure knowledge harvesting from a community to convert unstructured conversations to structured knowledge articles and make the information more accessible.Activate Communities pluginsActivate the Customer Communities plugin to use the Communities application.Community setup guide for adminsDefine your requirements with community and forum stakeholders and set up your forums for community users to start creating content.Configure community content typesConfigure content types, such as videos and blogs, for the community.Configure video sources for a communityConfigure additional sources that can be used for uploading a video to the community.Configure community forumsA forum is a place for users to share content, exchange notes, ask and answer questions, and so on. Before community users can contribute content, configure a forum with content types and permissions, and create and add topics to one or more forums.Forum and user permissions managementCommunity and forum administrators can give users and groups of users different levels of access to forums and forum content.Configure the community profileSet up the community profile by configuring profile fields and deciding which fields to display in the personal information section of the community profile.Create community Terms and ConditionsCommunity members must follow the community rules of conduct. Create community Terms and Conditions and them share to build a successful community. Every community user must review and accept the Terms and Conditions before contributing to a community.Enable users to self-register to a communityOnce users have accessed public forums and decided they want to join the community, they can self-register to the community. External user registration provides a way of validating users and requires them to accept the community Terms and Conditions.Moderate a communityCommunity moderators can manage content quality by reducing the inappropriate content that is posted on the community.Administer gamificationUsers with the gamification administrator role can create the rules and other entities that award points to users based on their participation within the community.Community Service PortalThe Community Service Portal is a web interface that is based on the ServiceNow Service Portal application.