Communities Sites

This section is for those who administer AEM Communities and assumes familiarity with AEM Communities features.

For an overview and getting started tutorials, visit :

• AEM Communities Overview
• Getting Started with AEM Communities
• Getting Started with AEM Communities for Enablement

• Communities consoles
  • Sites
    • Groups (sub-communities)
  • Moderation
  • Members and Groups Management
  • Enablement Resources
  • Reports
• Communities tools :
  • Site Templates
  • Group Templates
  • Community Functions
  • Storage Configuration
  • Component Guide
  • Badges

A major feature of AEM Communities is the generation of user generated content (UGC) by signed in site visitors (members). To learn more about working with UGC visit :

• Common UGC Store : choice of SRP for shared storage of UGC
• Moderating UGC : trusted members may moderate UGC in bulk or in-context
• Tagging UGC : features may be configured to allow members to tag content
• Translating UGC : features may be configured to translate all UGC or allow members to translate selected posts
• Analytics Configuration : enabling Adobe Analytics to report on various metrics regarding member activity

• Managing Users and User Groups : details of community members and member groups, including privileged members
• Contribution Limits : ability to constrain posting by new members
• Tunnel Service : allows publish-side members and member groups to be accessed from the author environment
• Members and Groups consoles : allows publish-side members and member groups to be created and managed from the author environment
• User Synchronization : for synchronizing members and member groups across multiple publish instances
• Social Login with Facebook and Twitter : ability for site visitors to become a community member using their Facebook or Twitter credentials
• Scoring and Badges : ability for badges to be assigned to identify role(s) of a member and for members to earn badges through their participation in the community
• Notifications : ability for members to be notified of activity they follow
• Subscriptions : ability for members to interact with the community using external email
• Messaging : ability for members to interact with the community using internal messages

• Configuring Enablement : necessary information to correctly setup the enablement features
• Analytics Configuration : necessary information for enabling Adobe Analytics for Communities features
• Tagging Enablement Resources : necessary for creating enablement catalogs

The deployment section contains information specific to AEM Communities.

The nature of working with community content influences the structure of the deployment :

• Recommended Topologies for Communities

It is important to install the most recent Communities release on the AEM platform :

• Latest Communities Feature Pack

See the deployment page for other Communities specific information, such as for Upgrading, Dispatcher and Replication.

• Visit Deploying Communities to learn about recommended deployments.

• Visit Developing Communities to learn about the social component framework (SCF) and customizing Communities components and features.

• Visit Authoring Communities Components to learn how to author with and configure Communities components.