Categories & Organization

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Category Configuration & Management
In your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community, Categories are the high-level organizers of your posts, and each post must be placed in a Category. You can view your community's Categories by clicking Categories in the top navigation available on all community pages. Managing a community's Categories involves, for…
Category Following & Notifications
The Category Following feature allows all users to: Follow Categories, allowing them to choose whether to receive in-app and/or email notifications regarding new content in those Categories. Following your favorite Categories allows you to easily know when new posts and comments are available via notifications, like…
Category Types
In this article, we'll cover the four Category Types available in your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community: Discussions Nested Flat Heading Before we begin... Because Category Types are an integral aspect of Categories, here's a quick refresher: Categories are the high-level organizers of your posts. Each post must be…
Create & Manage Groups
In your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community, a Group is a subset of your community population in which a limited set of users form and manage their own (public or private) space for limited-participation posts. This is beneficial because it allows these individuals to have a more focused conversation about a topic…
Ideation
The Ideation feature gives your community a dedicated, structured way to collect ideas and feedback, so users can propose suggestions, vote, and discuss—while you keep everyone informed with clear statuses. It’s commonly used by product teams to crowdsource feature requests and align an organization's roadmap with user…
Private Communities
By default, users who don't have an account or who aren't logged in to your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community can still view content (but not participate). If your organization would like to implement additional security to prevent these users from browsing your Vanilla community entirely, the Private Communities…