Project Discussions
Project Discussionsare used by project teams to create and discuss relevant topics in a collaborative, online environment. All Collaboration projects have a Discussions listing page.
Introducing yourself
A nice way to get engaged in a project is to find the Welcome to new project members, please introduce yourself Discussion Forum in the Discussion s section and create your first Topic. Please title the page "About [Your First Name, Last Name, Title, Company] " and write a little about yourself and why you joined the project and click Save. All Collaboration projects have the Welcome to new project members Discussion Forum.
Introducing yourself and reading about other members is a great way to get to know your other project members. Here's how:
- On the Discussions page for a project, click on the "Welcome to new project members" link.
- Click
- Place your cursor where it says "New Page" and input " About [Your First Name, Last Name, Title, Company]
- Move your cursor to the body of the page and tell the project team a bit about yourself. Here is an example introduction post
- Click the orange SAVE button when you are done .
- On the topic listing page posts the most recent post is listed first. If a post made "sticky" it will always be listed first.
- On the page tree posts are listed alphabetically.
Adding a new topic
Replying to a topic
It's easy to reply to a topic, just use the Comment tool on the topic page.
- On a topic page click in the the Comment box and type your reply.
- Click Save.
Be sure you are on a Topic page and not a Discussion Forum listing page to reply to a topic.
The Demonstration Project has example Topic pages with replies here .