Create a discussion forum

Encourage project members to work together by creating discussion forums to which project members with the appropriate permissions can post messages.

1. Click Discussions in the project navigation bar.
2. On the Forum Summary page, click Create.
3. On the Create Discussion Forum page, enter a title and description for the forum.
4. To make it a private discussion forum, set the Type to Private. Private discussion forums restrict anyone without specific access permissions from posting to the forum. For example, you may want to restrict a preliminary planning discussion to your project's core team before sharing it more widely.
5. To set up a mailing list, select Enable Mailing List.
   1. Provide a name for the mailing list.
      Note: The mailing list name must be unique within a project.
   2. Choose how replies to posts are handled by setting the Reply Behavior.
      Tip:

      • Many users are accustomed to having their replies go automatically to the whole list. Others are used to having replies go just to the original sender. You should check with your users to see what makes more sense for a particular mailing list.
      • When Reply Behavior is set to "To the list," email replies are sent to the list as a whole, not to the individual post. This may be a change from what some users are used to.
   3. Specify a prefix for the subject lines of messages from this list. This can help users sort their incoming messages, if they are subscribed to multiple lists.
   4. Under Footer Text, provide any information you want to show up at the bottom of each email that subscribers receive. For example, you may want to offer useful web locations or email addresses.
6. To make this a moderated forum, select Enable Moderation.
   1. Use the User Picker to add moderators. A moderated discussion must have at least one moderator.
      Note: If your project includes members of a parent project, you can select those members too.
   2. Use the User Picker to add trusted users. Posts by trusted users do not need moderator approval.
7. On the Create Discussion Forum page, click Save.