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Reviewing community blog content

If community members have only Draft permissions, you can review their submissions and approve or reject accordingly. If comment moderation is enabled for your community blog, you can also go through the submitted comments.

Reviewing entries

If you assigned the Draft role to community members, you must approve their entry submissions so they can be published on the community blog.

  1. From the community menu, click Blog.
  2. Click Blog Actions and select Manage Blog from the list.
  3. In the side panel, select Entries.
  4. To view all entries that are associated with a tag, enter the tag in the Filter by Tags section and click the search icon Search icon.
  5. To display all blog entries, click the All tab.
  6. To manage entries that are awaiting approval, click the Require Approval tab. Select the checkbox for one or more entries and click one of the following options:
    • Approve: Publishes the entry.
    • Reject: The entry will not be published. The author can edit the entry and resubmit it for your review.
    • Delete: Permanently removes the entry.
  7. To view draft entries, click the Draft tab. The entries that you see depend on your role. If you have Draft permissions, you see the entries that you created that are in a draft state. If you have Owner or Author permissions, you see all draft entries for this blog. You can do the following actions:
    • To edit the draft, click Edit.
    • To publish the draft, click the checkbox for the entry then Submit.
    • To permanently remove the draft, click the checkbox for the entry then Delete.
  8. To view published entries, click the Published tab.
  9. To view rejected entries, click the Rejected tab.

Reviewing comments

If you enabled comment moderation for the community blog, you can manage the comments.

  1. From the community menu, click Blog.
  2. Click Blog Actions and select Manage Blog from the list.
  3. In the side panel, select Comments.
  4. To display all comments, click the All tab. To filter the set of comments by date, click Comment / Date.
  5. To view and manage comments that are awaiting approval, click the Require Approval tab. Then, select the checkbox for one or more entries and click one of the following options:
    • Approve: Publishes the comment.
    • Reject: The comment will not be published. The author can edit the comment and resubmit it for your review.
    • Delete: Permanently removes the comment.
  6. To view published comments, click the Published tab.
  7. To view rejected comments, click the Rejected tab.

Parent topic:Sharing information in a community blog

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