Add a library to your community to give members a central
place to store and work with community files.
Before you begin
To create a community library, the IBM® Connections Content Manager add-on must be
installed for your deployment.
About this task
When you are a community owner, you can create libraries in your community by adding the
Library app or link to existing libraries using the Linked Library app. You can create or link to
multiple libraries from your community, and give the libraries different names to distinguish
between them.
When you create a community library using the Library app, the library is created on
the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) server and access to the library is granted based on
community membership. When you link to an existing library using the Linked Library app, permissions
for working with files and folders in the library are set on the ECM
server.
Procedure
To add a library to a community, complete the following
steps.
- From the Overview page, select .
- Complete one or more of the following tasks:
- To create a community library, click Library. The Library app is
added to your community's Overview page. You can open the app by selecting
Library from the navigation sidebar.
- To link to an existing library, click Linked Library. The Linked
Library is added to your community's Overview page. You can open the app by
selecting Linked Library from the navigation sidebar.
- Optional: Close the palette.
What to do next
After creating a community library by adding the Library app, click
Add Your
First File to start uploading files and working with them. After adding the Linked
Library app, you must create a connection to an ECM server so that you can access and start working
with the files in a linked library. For more information, see
How do I connect to an ECM
server.
If you are creating multiple community libraries or linking to multiple libraries,
you might want to rename them to make it easier to distinguish between them. For more information,
see Managing libraries.