You can mark a comment or reply Helpful, Correct, Decision, Success,
for Action, or Resolved. You may see all or only some of these marking options, depending on how your
community manager has configured this feature.
Note: The Marking feature is different from
Tasks, which are a formal way to
assign work tasks to people.
When you mark a comment or reply, a
badge appears that displays its state (Helpful, Decision, and so on). These badges are visual
indicators only; they do not prevent anyone from further commenting or marking any comments
or replies as a Decision, Helpful, Resolved, Success, or for Action.
To see who marked the comment or reply and when, click its badge.
- Mark for Action
- Choose Mark for Action to assign an action to yourself, and, optionally, bring in others.
When you bring in others to help, note that doing so doesn't
assign the Action item to them; it sends a notification to their Inbox about the action
item. From there, they can Take Ownership of the action item.)
The Action Item badge on
the comment/reply lets readers know that the item has been assigned to someone. Other
users may Mark for Action other comments or replies as well.
- Resolve
- Choose Resolve on an Action (whether you own it or not) when you have completed the
action. This lets others know that you've taken care of the issue.
- Mark as Decision
- Choose Mark as Decision to let others know that this comment or reply is the Decision,
or one of the Decisions. Other users may mark other comments or replies as the Decision
as well.
- Mark as Success
- Choose Mark as Success to let others know that this was a collaboration success story
for your community.
- Helpful
- Click Helpful to let others know that this comment or reply contains helpful
information.
- Correct Answer
- Only system administrators, place owners, and discussion authors can see the Correct
Answer mark option and only on discussions that have the "Mark this discussion as a question"
check box selected. There can be only one Correct Answer. In addition, your community manager may disable this feature altogether.