Overview
Discussion lists allow you to group all the posts, tasks, and content from a discussion stream into lists defined by you and your team. Lists can be used for a variety of reasons - common uses include grouping items into;- Categories - this can be useful when a stream is often used to capture ideas and brainstorming. All ideas/posts can be grouped into different topics or categories so they can be explored with similar or supporting items. This saves searching through a large stream for posts and potentially missing them.
- Statuses - this can be useful when a stream is often used to keep track of current tasks, issues, or projects. Lists can be created to hold items for each phase or step in a process and items can be progressed through the lists in order to manage them.
- Sub Teams - this can be useful when a stream is used by a large team that is broken down into smaller teams or partnerships during mini projects. This way all the posts are still maintained within one stream, but each sub team has their own list.
Discussion Lists Layout
Discussion streams have a default layout defined during their setup. If your stream is not set to display as lists by default, you can change to list view by selecting the Discussion Lists option from the Layouts menu.
List Setup
Creating Lists
In order to start grouping your stream's content, you will need to create some lists. To create a list, follow these steps:
Using Lists
List Management
Editing Lists
Once you have created your lists, you may find that you need to make adjustments to them. To edit the details of your list, follow these steps:
Moving Lists
Sometimes you may need to reorder your lists, or potentially move them to another discussion stream. Follow these steps to move a list:
Moving Posts
Sometimes you may want to merge lists. To do this you will need to move all the items from one list to another in the same stream. Follow these steps to move all posts in a list:
Deleting Lists
Deleting Posts
Sometimes you may wish to clear out a list, deleting all the posts contained within it. This might be if you are using a list to monitor completed tasks or ideas and have come to the end of a cycle and want to clear out old items. To delete all the posts in a list follow these steps: