1. A drag and drop system in a communities framework, comprising: a computer having a user interface and a portal page rendered thereon; a draggable resource displayed on the portal page configured to be selected and dragged by a user and described by a draggable resource tag; a resource drop zone portion of the portal page for specifying the location of the draggable resource to be dropped and described by a resource drop zone tag; and wherein the computer executes an action upon the dropping of the draggable resource in the resource drop zone.