Reject a forum message

If a proposed message is not appropriate or does not contribute to the goals of your discussion forum, reject it.

When a user posts a message to a moderated discussion forum in CollabNet TeamForge, the message is archived in an unmoderated state, until approved or rejected by a moderator. However, the messages posted by trusted users do not require the moderator's approval.

Note: The moderators of the discussion forum receive email notifications about the posts sent to the moderated discussion forum. The email notifications contain the URL path to moderate the posts.

Note: You can reject posts with or without comments or reasons for rejection.

Click My Workspace in the project navigation bar to return to your My Page.
On My Page, click the Items Awaiting My Approval tab. The number of posts awaiting approval are displayed against the project names.
To view forum details, click the hyperlinked Number of Posts for your project.
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.

Select either of the four rejection 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 reject the posts individually:	Select the checkbox against the post. Click Reject at the end of the post.
To bulk-reject the posts:	Select the checkbox against all the posts that must be rejected. Click Reject below the post details table.
To view the post details and reject:	Click the hyperlinked post title. Click Reject 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.
To explain your rejection with a comment:	Click Reject With Comment instead of Reject. Note: The rejection comment is posted to the message sender.

Note: The rejected messages are deleted from the posts awaiting approval list and the message senders are notified by email.