When you create a new distribution email or activity link, you are asked to assign the community for which the email is intended.

Once you select the community from the Assign to a Community list and click Create, that community is the target community for your distribution.

To distribute an activity to multiple communities, create a separate invitation for each community.

For more information, see Create an invitation and Create a new activity link.

You can use surveys or power surveys to distribute a single survey to multiple locales. Community automatically selects the appropriate version of the translated survey for the community you select.

For more information about using power surveys, see Deploying a survey in multiple languages.

For more information about using surveys, see The multilingual surveys workflow.

Use the Community system variable, which is available wherever profile variables are available.

You can use Community:

• In surveys for survey logic
• In reports, report filters, and subgroups to enhance your data analysis
• In community metrics to analyze the overall health of your communities

Example: Use the Community system variable in survey logic

You want to send the same survey to multiple communities. However, your survey only contains a few questions specific to each community, while the rest of the survey is the same. After you add the Survey Logic action to your survey, create a condition to display this group only to participants whose community is your target community: You can then add the questions you want to ask the community members to the survey logic action.

In activity invitations, there is no need to edit member filters to account for Community. This is already taken care of when you first create the invitation and specify the intended community.

To view community information in reports, you can add a subgroup based on the Community system variable.

1. Open the Surveys app, open a survey from the Activities page, and then click Report on the activity toolbar. Then, select a report from the list.
2. In the Report toolbar, click Subgroup.
3. In the Subgroup dialog, click +Subgroup.
4. In the Add Subgroup area, select Profile Variables from the Source list.
5. Select community from the Profile Variables list and click Add.
6. Select the community you want to include in the report and click Apply.

   

   After you click Apply, each question will have multiple charts, including a total chart and a chart for each community.

   

Profile variables can be unique to a single community or shared across multiple communities.

You apply an activity theme the same way you do currently. The list of available themes differs based on the community you specified when you were creating a distribution email or an activity link, or when you were setting a community theme as active. You can also duplicate a theme from one community to another.

You create and edit community themes the same way you do currently, but now you must filter the list of themes by community first. For more information, see Create a community theme.

For new customers, power surveys theming is handled through Community theming.

For upgraded customers, you can switch between Sparq 1 skinning and Community theme types in Power Survey Authoring.

For more information, see Create and use Community themes in power surveys and Power survey themes.

You apply an activity theme the same way you do currently. The list of available themes differs based on the community you specified when you were creating the distribution email.

By default, an invitation's theme is set to the active community theme. The selected theme is only visible to the invitation's recipients, but the same activity can have multiple invitations, each one with a different theme.

You view statistics and community metrics the same way you do currently. For survey and forum statistics, select a community from the menu.

For community metrics, you can view the metrics for one community at a time by using the Community system variable as a profile variable to filter your data.

Perform a system upload and include a column called Community with the updated community name values. For more information, see Perform a system upload.

You can view and edit community settings by opening the Technical Configuration page.

1. In the navigation bar, click Product Settings > Technical Config.

   

2. In the community list, select the community for which you want to view or edit settings.

   The Web Settings area displays the relevant information.

   

3. To edit the settings, click Edit Settings.
4. In the Community Setting dialog, you can edit the settings in the editable fields.
   Note: To change any of the read-only settings, you will need to contact Technical Support.

A community may appear as inactive for any of the following reasons:

• The community is in the process of being set up and is pending.
• The community was identified as defunct during the upgrade process and is no longer available.

You will not be able to distribute new activities to members of inactive communities. However, an inactive community's data is still available to view in community metrics and in reporting.

For now, upgraded customers still use Sparq 1 portals. Any changes to Sparq 1 portals and skinning are handled through your Account Representative.

For now, recruitment continues to be handled through Sparq 1.

Recruitment surveys work the same way as surveys, and you can distribute the same recruitment survey across multiple communities. When you create a new distribution email or recruitment link, you are asked to specify the community for which it is intended. For more information, see Create an invitation and Create a new activity link.

Each community has its own portal. You can manage portal content across all of your communities from the Community app inCommunity > Member Experience > Portal Content. Use the View Widgets for menu at the top of the page to select the community for which you want to update widgets and portal content.