Responding to forum topics
Join in a discussion by responding to forum topics that interest you.
Anyone can respond to a topic in a stand-alone forum. However, to respond to a topic in a community forum, we must be a member of the community.
If forum topics are moderated, the reply is not displayed immediately because the forum moderator must approve its content first. If content moderation is not enabled, then the reply is displayed immediately.
If the administrator enabled the Reply-To feature, we can respond to topics and topic replies by email. To reply by email, we must be following a topic. When we follow a topic, you receive an email notification when a new comment is added. We can reply directly to that email notification and the email response is posted as a reply on the forum. If the Reply-To feature is not available, ask the administrator to enable it. See Configure Forums for email notification replies.
When you respond to a topic, consider the following points:
- We can add attachments to a response. Attachments must comply with existing file upload constraints, such as file size and file extension. Embedded images in the reply are processed as attachments.
- We can paste an image into a topic reply. See Pasting an image topic.
- When you reply to an email notification, all previous content is included as part of the reply. To truncate the previous content, manually add #end to end the reply history to end. Content that appears after the #end entry is ignored.
- We can reply more than once to an email notification.
- To reply to emails, ensure the settings are configured correctly:
- Click Settings, and then click the Email Preferences tab.
- Ensure that Receive notifications from other people by email and Allow me to reply to notifications by email are selected.
- In the Content that I am following section, ensure that Forums is set to Individual Emails.
To respond to a forum topic:
- Open the topic to which to respond. The original topic is displayed, along with a list of responses.
- Click Reply in the area of the thread to which to respond.
- To change the title of the response, click Edit Title and enter a title in the field provided.
- Enter the response in the rich text field.
- To attach a file to the response, click Attach a File and browse for a file.
- Click Save to save the reply.
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