Start a discussion with members of your community by adding
a topic to one of the community forums. Anyone who can access the
forums can view the new topic.
Before you begin
The Forums application must be available in your community
for you to be able to add a discussion topic. When you see a
Forums area
on the community's
Overview page, this means
that the application is enabled for your community. You must be a
community member to post topics to a community's forums.
Procedure
To add a topic to a community forum, complete the following
steps.
- On the community's Overview page,
click Start a Topic in the Forums area
of the page. If you are the first member to add a forum
topic, the link displays as Start the First Topic.
- Required: Enter the title of the discussion
topic in the Title field.
- To mark the topic as a question, select Mark
this topic as a question.
- Enter one or more tags in the Tags field.
- Enter the content of your topic in the rich-text field
provided. Be as descriptive as possible. Remember that you want to
start a discussion, so include relevant information to interest other
community members and get them involved.
- Required: Select the community forum where
you want to add the topic from the Forum list.
- To attach a file to the topic, click Attach
a File and browse for a file.
- Click Save.
Results
If forum topics are moderated in your deployment,
the topic does not display immediately. The forum moderator must approve
the topic content first. If content moderation is not enabled, the
topic is published immediately.