Use your community's forums to share ideas with members and discuss topics of common
interest.
Before you begin
Anyone who can access a community can access the forums associated
with that community. To post a topic or reply to a topic, you must
be a community member.
About this task
When the community owner has created forums for the use
of the community, members can post discussion topics and respond to
existing topics in those forums. The five most recent updates from
the forums are displayed in the Forums area
on the community's Overview page, where you can
view usage statistics for each topic. These statistics are a good
indicator of the topics that interest your community, and they can
also give you an idea of who the most active participants are.
Note: When
you open Forums, the Topics tab shows pinned
topics first in the list. However, the pin icons do not display in
communities with more than one forum.
Procedure
To browse the forums in your community, complete the
following steps.
- From any page in your community, click Forums in
the navigation sidebar.
- Do one of the following.
- To browse by forum, click the Forums tab
to display all of the forums in the community. When you see a forum
that interests you, click the forum title to open it and start browsing
its topics.
-
To browse by topic, click the Topics tab.
This tab lists all of the forum topics for the community. The topics are listed by date, with
the most recently-created topics first. However, if the community owner has pinned any forum topics,
these topics are displayed first, regardless of the date in which they were added or updated.
- To open any topic, click the topic title.
A
threaded view of the topic displays, showing the original topic and
any responses to it. When navigating long discussion threads, click
the name after the response title to display the parent of that topic
first in the page. This view makes it easy for you to see which response
corresponds to which forum entry.
What to do next
If you want to get notified about updates to a community forum that interests you, open the forum
and select . You do not have to be a member of a community to follow a community forum.