Create a forum post in Engagement

Engagement allows venue managers to create forum posts so that they can get their team to discuss important topics together.

Start from: The Engagement dashboard.

• Navigate to Communications > Publications.
• Select + Add New > Forum post.

STEP 1 - Setup

• Assign a Title* to your forum post.
• Select a Forum* from the dropdown list. This is where the post will be published.
• Assign a name to the Author*.
• Select if you want to Notify the audience about this new communication. You can notify by Email or Push notifications.
• Select Next.

STEP 2 - Content

• Write a Summary of your post. This summary can be 250 characters max.
• Write the content of the communication in Body*. You can drag images and add links by selecting text.

Note: You can use the Create with AI feature to speed up the content creation process.

• Select Cover images for your post. You can upload one or multiple images.

Notes: For the best display, we recommend using an image with dimensions between 1024x640 pixels and 800x500 pixels. Please note portrait-oriented images will only display fully in the Mapal One feed. For tiles and carousels, portrait images will be automatically cropped to a 16:9 landscape format, focusing on the center of the image. A maximum of 10 images can be added. The first image added will be used on the tile and carousel in Mapal One.

• Upload Attachments if needed. You can upload PDF, DOC, DOCX, CSV, XLS, and XLSX files of 10MB max.
• You can upload or embed a Video if needed.

Notes: You can only add one video (by uploading or by embedding). Once you add a video in one way, the other way will be blocked. For the embed option, only valid URLs with https:// are accepted. MP4 filetype is required, maximum 100MB.

STEP 3 - Publish

• Select if you want to save it as a draft or publish it, and in this case, when do you want to publish it.

Note: By default, scheduled posts and surveys will publish at 9:00 AM local time (based on the user’s timezone).

Once your post is created, readers will be able to see it on the selected Forum on their Mapal One Feed.

Originally published at https://help.mapal-os.com/engagement/communications/publications/create-a-forum-post-in-engagement/