Sharing Blog Content in Multiple Groups?

Thanks for asking this question for our team Amal Hechehouche :) 

Amal Hechehouche - Check out this idea that Gary Lungarini posted and you can vote on it if you haven't already: Add the ability to share content across different groups.

Regarding sharing content from an internal blog -- do you mean can you share content that is private with a group of people who don't have access to it? Or do you mean sharing content from one group to another group where people have the same permissions for viewing that content?

I have successfully moved content from one application/group to another one by selecting the Move option. I noticed that the instructions for this in the documentation for 11.x have not yet been created, but the page is here: How can I move content from one area of my community to another?  -- cc'ing Grant Pankonien to notify him that they have a blank page in the documentation. 

I did find this information about how to move a forum thread: https://community.telligent.com/community/11/w/user-documentation/63011/how-do-i-moderate-a-forum-to-move-split-merge-lock-threads#Moving

Great questions! Will break this down a bit with some options for you that I think of off the top of my head. May help to look at the specific setup you're going for but...

1 & 2) - You'll notice on this page https://community.telligent.com/blog/ we have a few different Blog containers/applications (Announcements, Developers, Why Go Social, etc) that pull content from those onto this main blog page here. That is just a widget and we specified which blogs to pull from, so you could have a Blog Post - List widget to pull in Blogs from other areas, IF you want all the blogs to be displayed of course. Users would need access to the originating blog. 

3) Since we're talking blogs in this instance, I'll give you some directions for this, but can also move other content types as well.

When you're on the blog you want to move, click on the pencil icon (Admin) > Click Manage Blog > Click Posts > Click on the post you want to move and a few options will "drop down" as seen in the screenshot below

Click Move > Then specify which group you want to move it to, and if you have multiple blog containers in that group, which blog you want it to move to as seen in screenshot below. In this example I chose to move the blog post to the "Strategy" Group and the "Think Tank" blog in that group.

For your P.S. - Yes, you can change the Blog Author (let me know if you tried this and it didn't work for you). When on the blog post itself > Click the "Edit" link (highlghted in screenshot) this will take you to the normal blog post edit screen.

Two options are at the top "Write" and "Options" > Click Options and you should see "Author" at the top. Type the name you want to change it to, then click "Post" again. This won't send out any new notifications.

More information on all this can be found here: https://community.telligent.com/community/11/w/user-documentation/67202/how-do-i-write-a-blog-post-for-another-member

Note: You will need to specify blog authors for the blog for the list to populate, this is a one-time need per author. To do this: 

1. Navigate to the blog, Click the Pencil > Manage Blog > Blog Options
2. In the Authors field, start typing the name of one author until the system finds it and select the author to add.
3. Click Save

I hope this helps, but fire away with any questions!

You are on it Grant Pankonien!!!  

Grant Pankonien thank you so much! I actually did try doing both of these things on Friday, but clearly I didn't do it correctly. Let me try again later today, and I'll come back to let you know if it was successful or not!

Cc: Avery Desrosiers Greg Baiocchi

Keeley Sorokti said:

I noticed that the instructions for this in the documentation for 11.x have not yet been created, but the page is here: How can I move content from one area of my community to another?  -- cc'ing Grant Pankonien to notify him that they have a blank page in the documentation. 

Yes! Want to compile the way to do it per application since the interactions with each are slightly different. Thank you for bringing up so I can get that hammered out!

Thanks, Keeley Sorokti! 

Happy to help anytime! Look forward to hearing back, and if we need to jump on a quick call to talk through anything, just let me know!

Hi Grant Pankonien

We were able to elevate a blog post that was originally posted in a group up to the site level homepage when we do this, registered users are able to see the post on the ECC News (site level home page) but when we sign out and look at the site from a non-registered user perspective the blog is not visible.

 

See screen shot below: 

Alternatively, the way this blog appears if you are a registered user is as follows

 

Any ideas as to why this might be happening?

In addition to this, we want people who are registered members to still have the ability to comment on the blog (in the COVID-19 group) but do not want people who are not registered and viewing the blog from the site level in the ECC News to be able to comment or see the comments at this point. 

Also - great input on the changing authors, we have not yet tested that out but will soon! 

CC: Greg Baiocchi and Amal Hechehouche Keeley Sorokti

Thanks for the feedback Avery Desrosiers! Are you using the setup I gave above by pulling multiple Blogs into a single Blog - Post List widget?

May be good to setup a call to troubleshoot a bit faster, but my initial question is, where is the blog post "housed" currently? If it is in a group or blog that is not publicly accessible, then the blog post will not be able to show up. Anonymous users need to be able to access the content in its original location in this example. If I'm off, or if we need to look at your specific requirements to get the appropriate configuration rocking, then I'll set up a call for us to walk through!

Thanks!