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To assign these permissions, navigate to the site home page (or profile page), Management > Administration > Membership > Roles > [role name] . Click the role you want to edit and click Edit . …
The forum thread list widget supports filtering listed threads to only ones identified as popular. The criteria for identifying popular threads is defined in Administration > Applications > Forums on the…
The edit and delete permissions in forums apply to all content and are intended for moderation purposes. The ability of an author to edit or delete their own content is governed by configuration in Administration…
The functionality exposed by forums to members is controlled via permissions and configuration options. The default permissions for forums within a group can be managed by navigating to the group, Manage…
Creating and responding to forum threads by email requires that email is enabled and mail gateway is enabled within Administration > Site > Email . See How do I configure email integration?
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Telligent Community enables hiding a member's forum posts from the community as a way to address aggressive members. The member will be able to see the posts that they author, but no one else will. To…
Telligent Community enables embedding forum behavior in an external website to enable discussion on external pages, with a unique thread created in the community for each unique external URL. To enable…
The sticky/prioritize feature allows you to make a thread display at the top of forum thread list for the specified period of time. To prioritize a thread and make it stick to the top of the thread list…
Community Applications can easily be moved from one group to another.
Click on the Pencil Icon > Manage (Application Name) > (Application Name) Options
Scroll down to where the Current Group containing…
Splitting a forum thread is in order when the thread receives an off-topic reply.
Navigate to the post.
Click More underneath the response you want to split off. A drop-down list appears, including…
Members will often subscribe to a forum or be subscribed to a thread because of a reply they added. As the thread continues, the member may lose interest and not want to receive notifications of updates…
To start a new forum thread (a question or a discussion), go to the forum you want to start the thread within and click the New button in the group banner. This will present the thread creation form.
This section contains the following articles:
How do I change permissions for site-wide roles?
How do I change permissions for members of a group?
Default site, group, and application permissions…
To change the types of threads allowed to be created in a forum and thread answering options, go to the forum, Manage > Manage Form > Form Options :
Allowed thread types - Specify which (or both…
Individual members who are moderated by flagging the account for moderation will be moderated everywhere throughout the community, however, to ensure that all threads and replies are moderated within a…
Offering the full editor option on a forum reply is a configurable option for community managers to choose. You can enable it in one forum, but have it disabled in another forum.
To configure this option…
Telligent Community forums include tools to moderate public forums to correct misplaced or tangential discussions or to prevent a discussion from continuing. NOTE: Permission requirements for each action…
The global Forum > Options > Options page allows you to set forum post properties. You can:
Enable RSS feeds and thread status tracking.
Specify the number of items to display on a feed.
Specify…
A forum thread is a conversation. The question (or discussion statement) begins the conversation, and the replies to the thread starters are the responses.
In Telligent Community, a forum thread:
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A forum is a format for discussions (such as opinions) and Q&A (such as how-to) questions.
How is a forum different from other applications?
All of a forum's content is crowdsourced. This is different…
What is QAPage?
Structured data is a set of data formats defined by Google to enable an improved display of search results for certain types of data. QAPage is the format defined for Question and Answer…
When the question-and-answer thread type is enabled within a forum, the purpose of new threads within the forum is to ask a question to receive an answer.
Asking Questions
Members can ask new questions…
Telligent Community includes support for playing many video files and links. This chart identifies which video types are supported by which file viewers. Note that the associated file viewer will need…
