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Add to Collection Feature
Is there specific content across your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community you want to group together in order to easily present it to your users? With the Add to Collection feature, you can create curated feeds of content for your custom layouts. In this article, we'll walk you through the process. 📝 NOTE: Currently,…
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AI Suggested Answers (Beta)
⏳️ BETA: Development of this feature is ongoing. Until complete, it will remain in a beta state. While every organization wants their community's members to be at the forefront of engagement, there may be times when questions will not be answered as quickly as those asking them may need, resulting in users without the help…
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Announcements
When creating or editing a discussion, question, idea, or custom Post Type, you can flag it as an announcement. Doing so causes it to be "pinned" to the top of all posts in the Category where it resides (and even on the Recent Posts page, if desired). 📝 NOTE: Newer announcements will display above older announcements. What…
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Bump a Post
The posts in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community are automatically arranged by most recent, either by post-creation date or most recent comment post date. This means that every time an existing post receives a new comment, it will again move to the top of the list; sometimes, however, a post may not receive…
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Change Log
Your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community includes the Change Log, which records the following information for auditing purposes: When an Admin makes configuration changes, including: Editing a user's post Deleting a user's post Applying a Theme/Style guide Enabling/disabling a Labs feature Enabling/disabling a locale…
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Close Posts
Closing a post doesn't mean it's removed from your community or can't be viewed; it means users can no longer add comments. Typical use-cases for closing a post include: An existing post is out of date and you want to direct users (and therefore engagement) to an updated one. You simply don't want comments enabled for…
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Cloudflare Image Resize
On a daily basis, dozens of images are likely being uploaded and displayed in your community by members and staff alike. In some cases, a user may not resize or scale down an image before uploading it, resulting in two potential issues: large file sizes that may impact page-load speeds an image that may not display…
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Community Activity Page
Your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community includes a community-wide Activity page that shows all recent activity from users across your entire community. In this article, you'll learn more about this page, and how to access it. 📝 NOTE: If you'd like to focus on the activity of a specific user, you can view it from…
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Community Management Dashboard (Beta)
The Community Management Dashboard (CMD) is a moderation-management tool that your staff and community members can use to report posted content that they think is inappropriate for any of the following reasons. The content: is offensive or abusive; is spam or solicitous; contravenes the community's "use" policies; is…
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Conversations (Private Messages)
The Conversations feature allows users to send private messages to each other. This feature gives users an opportunity to: continue conversations outside of posts, interact with Administrators and Moderators, and privately share information with each other. You can have multiple Conversations open at the same time with the…