Viewing status updates from your community

You can keep up-to-date on what your team is doing by viewing the status updates that community members have posted to your community.

Before you begin

The community owner must enable status updates for your community by adding the Status Updates app to the community. For more information, see Adding apps to your community.

About this task

The Status Updates page displays the latest status updates that community members have posted to the community.

Note: To see a snapshot of all the latest activity in your community, including status updates, use the Recent Updates page instead. For more information, see Getting the latest updates from your community.

Procedure

Select Status Updates from the navigation sidebar and perform one or more of the following tasks.

To show that you like an update or a comment on a status update, click Like.
You can tell how many people liked an update or comment from the number that displays next to the Like icon. Click the icon to see who liked the update or comment.
To comment on a status update, hover over the update and click Comment. Enter your comment in the field, and then click Post.
Tips:
- To @mention a colleague in your status message or comment and share the comment directly with them, enter the at (@) symbol followed by the person's name, and then select the person's name from the drop-down list that displays. When you post the comment, a notification email is sent to the person, and a message is also posted to their profile to let them know that you mentioned them.
  Note: If your community is private and the person is not a member, they do not receive any notification about your message.
  Note: Guest users cannot @mention users that are outside the community where the guest is a member or owner.
- When you include URLs in your status messages, they are automatically converted to hyperlinks. You can also preview any URLs that contain videos.
To delete a status update or comment that you added, hover over the update or comment and click the Delete icon.
To access more options for working with a status update, hover over the update and click it to display a window with more options for working with the update.
Click anywhere outside the window to close it.