Community Site:
SharePoint 2013 introduced a new site template called Community Site. Community site is the improvement of discussion forums that was available in SharePoint 2010. Community site provides the following features
Ø Discussions
Ø Categories
Ø Badges
Ø Reputation
This is also available as a site feature called Community Site Feature which can be enabled in the site. I have a team site collection where I am going to create a new community site as a subsite (I need a separate site which will be used by my team members to discuss).
Steps Involved:
1. Navigate to the team site http://c4968397007/.
2. Click on Site Contents link which is available in the quick launch bar.
3. Click on new subsite under Subsites section.
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4. Enter the Title, Description and URL name as shown below
5. Select Community Site template which is available in the Collaboration tab.
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6. Click on Create.
7. A new community site is created successfully which can be used to discuss some interesting topics among the team members.
Summary:
Thus in this blog you have seen how to create a community site in SharePoint 2013.