Assigning tasks in a community activity

Add activities to your community to give members somewhere to assign tasks and to share information and resources. You can grant access to the activity to all community members, or you can restrict access to a subset of members.

About this task

Creating an activity is a useful way to share to-do items, post event information, and organize meetings within a community. Creating an activity is easy: Click a button and complete a form. There are no required fields. You can edit the activity later to add or change information.

Procedure

To create a community activity, complete the following steps.
  1. On the community's Overview page, click Start an Activity in the Activities area.
    If you are creating the first community activity, the link displays as Create Your First Activity.
  2. In the Name field, type a short name that describes the purpose of the activity.
  3. In the Tags field, type a tag term.
  4. Add members to the activity by doing one of the following tasks:
    • To add all community members to the activity:
      1. Select Allow all members of this community access in the activity as:.
      2. Click the Down arrow next to the Author field, and then select Author, Owner or Reader.
    • To add a subset of community members to the activity:
      1. Select Allow only the following community members access in the activity as:.
      2. Click the Down arrow next to the Author field, and then select Author, Owner or Reader.
      3. Select the check box next to each member who you want to add to the activity.
  5. Specify an Activity goal and Due date.
  6. Click Pick an activity template to see a list of available templates.
  7. Click Save to finish creating the activity.

Results

Add activity entries and to-do items. Community members receive an email message to notify them that they are added to the new activity.