Create a Topic

Within the Social Squared Forums Web Part you will find forums where you can leave a reply. If you are a Social Squared administrator, you can create new topics. Or, if the Social Squared administrator has allowed it, non-administrators can create new topics. Once you have created a new topic, you can monitor the replies by subscribing to the topic, vote on the replies, click Report Abuse when you find any inappropriate replies, and when a reply answers your question correctly let other users know by clicking Mark as Answer.

*Before creating a new topic in a forum, you should familiarise yourself with the types of subjects that are created in the forum. Instead of creating a new topic, it may be best to reply to a post in an existing topic, or if you want to ask a question then there may be a topic that answers your question. By reviewing existing posts and topics, you will soon recognize those posts you like most, and that you can use as a guideline for the content you provide in your own topics and posts.

When you want to start a new conversation, decide in which forum you want to create the new topic, and then use the following steps:

1. Navigate to the forum group that contains the forum where you want to create a topic.
   
   
2. Click Add a New Topic.
   
   
   
   
3. Text boxes, and rich text toolbar are displayed on the page.
   
   
   
   
   

• Type the Subject of the new topic. Although Social Squared does not prevent you from creating a topic with a subject the same as another topic, you should use a unique subject to prevent confusion, and to ensure that you are not generating a topic for a conversation that has already been created. The length of the title should not be so long that it looks like a full message, nor should it be so vague that it does not help users to decide whether the subject of the topic is of interest to them. Users browsing forums do not have time to click through and read each and every post, so provide a descriptive and accurate topic subject. The subject of a topic also appears in the search results, when keywords match works in the subject. Do not sensationalize the subject of a topic by using asterisks or using all capitals.
  
  
• Type and format the body of your topic Message. Use the rich text toolbar to format the text and include links , images , emotions , embed media and code .
  
  
• Attach files, by clicking the Browse button to the right of the Attach Files text box.
  
  
• Add links to list items in any list or library within the site collection, by clicking the Browse button to the right of Select SharePoint Library Items.
  
  
• Select or deselect the Alert me when new reply appears check box.