You can keep up-to-date on what your team is doing by viewing
the status updates that community members have posted to your community.
Before you begin
The community owner must enable status updates for your community by adding the Status
Updates app to the community. For more information, see
Adding apps to your
community.
About this task
The
Status Updates page displays the
latest status updates that community members have posted to the community.
Note: To
see a snapshot of all the latest activity in your community, including
status updates, use the Recent Updates page instead.
For more information, see Getting the latest updates from your
community.
Procedure
Select Status Updates from the
navigation sidebar and perform one or more of the following tasks.
- To show that you like an update or a comment
on a status update, click Like. You
can tell how many people liked an update or comment from the number
that displays next to the Like
icon. Click the icon
to see who liked the update or comment.
- To comment on a status update, hover over
the update and click Comment. Enter your comment
in the field, and then click Post.
Tips: - To @mention a colleague in your status message or comment and share the comment directly with
them, enter the at (@) symbol followed by the person's name, and then select the person's name from
the drop-down list that displays. When you post the comment, a notification email is sent to the
person, and a message is also posted to their profile to let them know that you mentioned
them.
Note: If your community is private and the person is not a member, they do not receive any
notification about your message.
Note: Guest users cannot @mention users that are outside the
community where the guest is a member or owner.
- When you include URLs in your status messages, they are automatically converted to hyperlinks.
You can also preview any URLs that contain videos.
- To delete a status update or comment that you added, hover over the update or comment and click
the Delete
icon.
- To access more options for working with a status update,
hover over the update and click it to display a window with more options
for working with the update. Click anywhere outside the
window to close it.