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1. This menu item will allow you to return to your Community Home Page from anywhere in the Portal.

Community_Home_Menu

2. Quick Links give one-click exposure to Groups. Click on the name of the Group to go to the Home Page. These are along the top of every page above the Navigation Bar.
3. Quick_Links
4. Alerts scroll in the upper right corner of the page. The Red siren indicates an unread alert, a Grey siren one you've read. The arrow lets you quickly scroll through the alerts you've already seen.

Alerts_Bar Read_Alert

5. We'll go over the different sections of the Community Home page:
6. In the upper left corner is the Featured News, Featured News are important news items, they are also listed on your Personal Home Page, and Community News page.

Featured_News_Small

7. Below Featured News are Photo Galleries, Residents can view the Galleries posted there by Community Administrators.

Photo_Gallery

8. You can view larger versions of the images by clicking on View. This opens a slideshow view of the photos in the gallery.
9. Community Administrators, click here to learn more about managing Photo Galleries.
10. Community Documents have valuable information organized in folders.

Community_Documents

11. You can Add Documents you think are important to the community.
12. Click on Add Document, the Create New Community Document page opens.
13. Type in a unique document name in the Name field.

Comm_Document_Name

14. Type in a description in the Description field. This is for your reference only, it will not show to anyone else.

Community_Doc_Desc

15. Choose a Folder to store your Document. All documents need to be in a folder, they will not show in the Portal unless they are in a folder.

Community_Doc_Folder

16. Click on Select to navigate to the file you want to upload. This opens the Choose File dialog box.

Community_Doc_Select

17. Navigate to the file you want to upload. Click on the file.
18. Click on the Open button.

Open_Button

19. The file location will show in the Filename: field.
20. Click on Submit to submit your document to the Community Administrator for approval.
21. You'll see an upload progress box that gives you the status of the document uploading.

Upload_Progress

22. After the upload has finished, you'll get the following message:

Submitted_Document

23. Click on the sentence Click here to continue to be returned to the My Home Page.
24. Community Information holds links, pictures, and facts about the community.

Community_Info

25. Community Events gives you the next several days events in a snapshot view. Click on View All Events... to go to the Community Calendar.

Community_Home_Event

26. The Community Message Boards are a list of topics and forums to communicate and share ideas with others in the community.

Community_Home_Mess_Boards

27. Click here for more information on Message Boards.
28. Community Weather is today's weather and a 3-day forecast.

Community_Weather