Adding a Forum Post – Registered Users
Not all users have administrative permissions to write a forum post. Your community administrator can restrict users from writing post to all forums or to specific forums.
If you have administrative permission to write a forum post, you will see a Write New Post link when you open a forum.
Procedure
1. Click Write a New Post. The Post a Message page displays.
2. Specify the forum post settings on each tab.
Compose
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- Subject – Specifies the post subject.
- Tags – Specifies tags used for the post. You can click Select Tags to find tags that have already been used with forum posts.
- Email me replies to this post – Specifies whether you will receive notification when a user replies to the post.
Options
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- Add/Update – Allows you to upload a file to the post.
- Do not allow replies – Specifies whether users can reply to the post.
- Stickiness –
Specifies whether a post is sticky, and if so, for how long. A sticky
post displays first in the forum post list. You can specify how long
you want a post to be sticky. After the expiration date, the post
resets to Not sticky.
Poll
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- Include a Poll in this Post –
Specifies whether you want to include a poll question with your post.
When you click the checkbox, additional fields display on the page.
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- Question – Specifies the poll question.
- Description – Describes the poll question.
- Answers – Provides the user with options for answering the poll question.
- Add Answer – Allows you to add a poll answer.
- Expires – Specifies the number of days the poll question will display with the post.
Related
Lists posts that are related to, or published in, the forum.
Preview
Shows you what the post will look like before you publish the post.
3. Click Post.