Creating a Discussion About a Web Page

You can use Jive Anywhere to create a Jive discussion about a web page that you're viewing.

Use the following steps to create a discussion and get people talking about a web page. For help getting around Jive Anywhere, see Take a Quick Tour. If your community has the Existing Discussion feature, the Discuss tab will turn yellow when a page is already being discussed in your community.

  1. Using a browser with Jive Anywhere installed, open a web page. For more on installing Jive Anywhere, see Installing Jive Anywhere.
  2. Click the Discuss tab on the right side of your browser. If you're connected to multiple communities, click the Discuss tab for the community you want to use. You'll see a list of every piece of content that mentions this web page and you have permission to view.
  3. Click Start a new discussion to discuss this page in your community.
  4. When the Jive Anywhere discussion dialog opens, it uses the web page name as the discussion title. You can use the web page name or type a new title by clicking in the title's field.
  5. To create either a discussion in a place or a private discussion:
    • To create a discussion in a place, type or select the Jive place to contain the discussion. If this web page has been connected to a place (which you can do using Jive Anywhere), the "To" field will default to that place, but you can always select a different place.
      Note: You can select Entire Community if you want your discussion to show up in everyone's Activity stream.
    • To create a private discussion, select one or more community users who should see this discussion in the "To" field. Use the visibility fields in the Jive Anywhere viewer to see who is included in a private discussion.
      Note: If available in your community, you can add external contributors to a discussion.
  6. Type your discussion content in the text box.
  7. Select Mark as Question if you want this discussion to be known as a question when it gets posted to your community.
  8. Click Add Snapshot if you want to capture some portion of the web page and post it along with your discussion. For more on this see, Use a Snapshot in a Jive Discussion.
  9. Click Post.