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Manage your Reported Content (Beta)
In the Community Management Dashboard article, you learned about how the Community Management Dashboard (CMD) and its reporting features can be used by your organization's staff and community users to help keep your community content professional, accurate, and "clean" by premoderating content and manually reporting…
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Move Posts
As your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community grows, and more and more posts are contributed, it's likely you'll need to move some of them from one Category to another (typically because they're off-topic or just better suited elsewhere). In this article, we'll examine the three ways you can accomplish this. Required…
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Polls
Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) supports several default post types. In this article, we'll focus on Polls, which allow users to poll the community for their opinion on the posed question. In addition to choosing an option, users can also leave comments to expand the conversation. 📝 NOTE: All communities have Discussions…
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Posting Settings
In this article, you'll learn how to configure several settings to tailor how posts are created in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. Access Posting Settings Access the Dashboard . Navigate to Settings > Posts > Posting. Posting Settings overview At the top of the page, the Enable checkboxes on posts and…
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Promoted Content
📝 NOTE: The Promoted Content module is not available with our Foundation theme. We will be building a new Promoted Content Widget to allow for content to be promoted on different pages of your community. Do you want to promote content to your community based on an author's Role or Rank (or something else)? In any…
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Questions & Answers (Q&A)
Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) supports several default post types. In this article, we'll focus on the Questions & Answers (Q&A) post type, which makes it easier for users to have their questions answered and helps users to quickly locate questions that need to be answered. 📝 NOTE: All communities have Discussions and…
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Rich Editor
Rich Editor is the editor you'll use to write and format your text when creating posts in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community. Upgrade to Rich Editor If you’re still using one of our legacy editors, such as Advanced Editor, you can enable Rich Editor at any time. To do so: Access the Dashboard. Navigate to…
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Rich Editor - Table Formatting
To customize the visual aesthetic of your Rich Editor tables, you can add a variety of theme variables to your Style Guide. In this article, we'll examine several of the most common table variables, which will likely be sufficient for your needs. However, if you want to dive a little deeper, you can find the complete list…
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Saving Drafts
Accidents happen. We've all navigated away from a page while in the middle of a task or closed our browser. This is why Higher Logic Vanilla automatically saves your work while creating posts (discussion, question, idea, etc.), events, and articles. Your post is saved every few seconds, ensuring you never have to worry…
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Schedule Posts & Articles
The Schedule Post feature enables users to create events, articles, and posts (discussions, questions, ideas, etc.) in advance and schedule them for publication at a specific date and time. This is particularly useful for: managing content calendars, preparing for time off, and coordinating the release of notes and…