Approve a forum post

If a post is appropriate, add it to the forum by approving it. If the sender can be trusted for other posts, you can choose to approve and trust.

1. Click My Workspace in the project navigation bar to return to your My Page.
2. On My Page, click the Items Awaiting My Approval tab. The number of posts awaiting approval are displayed against the project names.
3. To view forum details, click the hyperlinked Number of Posts for your project.
4. Click the number of posts awaiting approval link on the Forum Summary page.
   Note: The Forum Summary page displays all the forum names and the corresponding number of posts awaiting approval, if any.
5. Select either of the three approval techniques in the Posts Awaiting Approval tab. As the moderator of the post, you will be able to view the topic title in the All Topics tab; and post title in the Posts Awaiting Approval tab on the Topic Summary page.
   Note: In the All Topics tab, the hourglass icons differentiate the topics that contain posts awaiting approval. To view posts nested within a topic, you can use the hyperlinked topic title.

   Option	Description
   To approve posts and senders individually:	Select the checkbox against the post. Click Approve or Approve and Trust at the end of the post. Note: On clicking Approve and Trust, the messages are approved and the post sender is added to the trusted users list.
   To approve multiple posts and senders at once:	Select the checkbox against all the posts that can be approved. Click Approve or Approve and Trust below the post details table.
   To view the post details and approve:	Click the hyperlinked post title. Click Approve or Approve and Trust on the Review Post Awaiting Approval page after reading the details. Note: You can navigate between the posts from the Review Post Awaiting Approval page by clicking Previous and Next icons. Note: You can return to the previous page by clicking Return.