Create a community

The first part of establishing a community is to create it. When you create a community, you are prompted to define a community name and description, the user roles that have administrative permissions within the community for your tenant, and the users and groups considered Community Members within your tenant.

Prerequisites

You must be assigned a user role with community administration permissions on the administrative tenant.

To create a community

To create a community:

1. In the left pane, select Data Management > Communities.

2. Select + Add Community in the upper right hand corner.

   The Create Community wizard opens to the Details page.

3. On the Details page, enter the following information and select Next:

   Detail	Description
   Name	The name of the community.
   Description (optional)	A description of the community.
   Contact Email	An email address that your business partners can use to contact you for any questions or issues related to this community. This field defaults to the email address for your user account, but you can override it by selecting and entering a new address.

   Tip: You can update your Contact Email later. For more information, see Configure contact email.

4. On the Community Administrators page, choose the CONNECT data services roles that are assigned community administration permissions. Users assigned these roles can perform administration tasks for both their own tenant and the entire community. You can either accept the default roles or add new ones.

   • To add community administrator permissions to a user role, select the Add Roles dropdown menu and then select Add Role for any role that you want to function as community administrator.

   • To remove community administrator permissions from a user role, select Remove Role for the role that you want to remove.

     Tip: You can edit the default roles that are listed. For more information, see Manage default community administrators.

5. After you finish, select Next.

6. On the Community Members page, add Community Members, which are users within your tenant that have read access to the community and its data.

   To add new Community Members, select Add Members and search for each user or group that you want to add.

   Note: Community Administrators are not automatically added as Community Members. If you want your Community Administrators to also be Community Members with access to shared resources, you must manually add them.

7. After you finish, select Create.

   The community is created and added to the Communities page.

Next steps

Invite tenants to your community. Continue to Invite a tenant to a community.