Add forums to a community
When a community is created, it contains a forum by default. We can add more forums to organize community discussions around different focus areas. We cannot add existing, stand-alone forums to a community.
You must be a community owner to add a forum to a community, and also be logged in to Communities.
Your community must contain the Forums widget for you to be able to add forums. Every community contains the widget by default when the community is first created. The widget lists the five forum topics that were updated most recently. If the widget is removed and to add it back, we can do so at any time. For information about how to add widgets, see Adding widgets to the community.
Community forums have the same access level as the community containing them. When add a forum to a restricted community, the forum automatically becomes a restricted forum and it is not available from the Forums application. Forums added to public communities are available from the Public Forums page in the Forums application.
Add multiple forums to a community provides the members with dedicated discussion areas where they can ask questions and discuss relevant topics. For example, if the team encounters an issue that is blocking progress on a project, you might create a troubleshooting forum to find out if anyone in the community has a similar problem and if they have a suggested solution.
To add a forum to the community.
- Select Forums on the community's Overview page, and then click the Forums tab.
- Click Start a Forum.
- Required: Enter a name for the forum in the Name field.
- Enter one or more tags in the Tags field.
- Enter a description for the forum in the Description field, and then click Save.
Results
After you save the forum, it opens in the Forums user interface where you and the fellow community members can start to post topics and questions. To access the forum from the community, select Forums on the community's Overview page, click the Forums tab, and then click the forum title to open the forum. We can also use the Forums widget on the community's Overview page to keep up with the latest updates to forum topics. The widget lists the five most recently updated forum topics. To access a full list of community forum topics, click View All in the widget.
What to do next
We can perform the following actions directly from the community:
- Start a forum topic by clicking Start a Topic and completing the form displayed.
- Click a topic title in the Forums widget to open it. This widget lists the five most recent topic updates.
- Access a full list of forum topics for the community by clicking View All.
- Remove community forums
As a community owner, we can delete individual community forums, temporarily hide community forums, or remove the entire forums feature from the community.
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