If you are interested in an area (called a place or community), a person, or a piece of content (such as a discussion or document) you can choose to follow it. This means that you will get notifications when something happens within that place or to that piece of content.
What is a place? A place or community is a folder within the site structure. We have organised the site into product lines and then categories. An example of a place isAgent Deployment
Example: Start following a piece of content
If there is a piece of content you want to refer to again you can bookmark it by clicking Bookmark in the Action Panel when logged in to community and viewing that item. However if you want to recieve notifications when something happens to that piece of content (for example to be notified of updates to a supported platforms document) you can follow it.
- When viewing the document click Follow in your Action Panel.
- You then have a choice of following in your Connections Stream, any custom streams you've addedUsing Activity Streams to be notified about what matters to you, or in your Inbox.
Example: Start following a place / community
- Click on Browse - Places in the header. This shows you tiles of all communities / places that you have access to.
- You can browse all Communities or you can type into the filter box if you are searching for a topic of interest.
- Click on the cog symbol in the bottom right of the place.
- If you are not already following the place you can click on Follow or if you are already following it will show you Following in x, click on this.
- You then have a choice of following in your Connections Stream, any custom streams you've addedUsing Activity Streams to be notified about what matters to you, or in your Inbox.
- Access your Inbox and Connection Streams to see what has been happening by going to your user drop-down menu and selecting Inbox and Activity
Example: Start following a person
- Click on Browse - People in the header or simply click on the user's name on the post or document they've contributed.
- Once you have the user's profile displayed click on Add as Friend
- You then have a choice of following in your Connections Stream, any custom streams you've addedUsing Activity Streams to be notified about what matters to you, or in your Inbox.
- Access your Inbox and Connection Streams to see what has been happening by going to your user drop-down menu and selecting Inbox and Activity
Get Email Notifications
Please see this document for further details Using Activity Streams to be notified about what matters to you
Stop Following People, Places, or a Piece of Content
To stop following something, go to the item, person, or place (by either tapping it from a stream or searching for it under the Find tab), and then tapping the Follow icon. From there, select the streams from which you want to stop following the person, place, or content item. You will no longer see the checkmark next to that stream(s), and you will no longer see updates for that person, place, or content item in that stream(s). Those updates will still appear in the All Activity stream, however, because that stream shows all public activity in the community.