Create forums
Start a new forum to solicit answers to a specific question or to discuss particular topic.
You must be logged in to create a forum.
A forum that you create in the Forums application is public by default. Any user in your organization with access to the Forums application can view and contribute to public forums. To create a forum with restricted access, create the forum inside a community with restricted access. See Add forums to a community topic.
Forums are an effective way to start a discussion among people who share a particular area of interest or expertise.
Forums can be stand-alone or they can be associated with a community. To create a stand-alone forum, add it from the Forums application. Community forums must be added by community owners from the Communities application. After they are created, stand-alone forums cannot be converted into community forums, nor can community forums be converted into stand-alone forums.
Before you create a forum, browse the existing forums in the organization. You might find there is already a forum about the topic that interests you.
When creating a forum, you automatically become the owner of that forum. If content moderation is enabled in the deployment, you also become the forum moderator.
To create a stand-alone forum.
- From the Public Forums page, click Start a Forum. We can also create a forum from the Forums tab on the My Forums page.
- Required: Enter a name for the forum in the Name field.
- To categorize the forum and make it easier to find, enter one or more tags in the Tags field.
- Enter a description for the forum in the Description field.
- Click Save.
What to do next
Click Start a Topic to add topics to the new forum. To not create topics now, we can access the forum later from the My Forums page.
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