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Create a community activity
You can add activities to your community to provide community members with a place to assign tasks and to share information and resources. When you start an activity from a community, all community members automatically become members of that activity.
You must be a community owner to create community activities. To start a community activity, a community owner must first add the Activities widget to the community.
Create an activity is a useful way to share to-dos, post event information, and organize meetings within a community. Creating an activity is easy: just click a button and fill out a form. There are no required fields. You can edit the activity later to add or change information.If you want, you can create an activity from a template. A template captures the tasks required to complete a specific job. For example, a patent template might link to the files, databases, tools, or Web sites that an inventor seeking a patent would need. It might also capture a list of to-do items that an inventor would need to complete as part of the patent application process.
To create the first activity within a community...
- Click Create your first Activity.
- If you are not already logged in to the Activities feature, you are prompted for a user name and password. Provide the requested information, and then click Log In.
- In the Title field, type a short name that describes the purpose of the activity.
- In the Activity Goal field, enter a description of the activity. Provide a sentence or two that summarizes the goal of the activity, its audience, or the type of content that you want members to add to it.
- In the Tags field, type a tag term. As you type, a list of matching tags from the tag collection is displayed. Click a tag to add it, or keep typing to add a tag that is not in the list. Separate multiple tags with commas.
- In the Due Date field, add a date by which this activity must be completed. Type the date or select it from the calendar control provided.
- To create the activity from a template:
- Expand Template options.
- Click the down arrow to see a list of available templates. When you select a template, a description of the template is displayed. If you choose not to use a template, select None from the list.
- Click Save to finish creating the activity.
Results
After you save the activity, it opens in the Activities user interface where you can start to add entries and to-do items. Community members receive an e-mail message to notify them that they have been added to the new activity. For information on how to work with your activities, click the Help link in the top right of the Activities user interface. You can return to the community at any time by clicking the community title in the community business card that displays on the top left of the page.
From the community, you can do the following:
- Click Start an Activity to create another activity.
- Click Activities to display the full list of activities associated with the community.