Members of your community can "recommend" Discussions, Library Entries, and Blogs so that other community users can see that these posts and/or their replies are of value.

Super Admins can enable and disable the recommend option (the button in the image below) and the number of recommendations that the content has received. When the option is enabled, a button displays with the content which makes it easy:

• to recommend the content and

• to see that has been recommended.

NOTE: The default label for this button is "Recommend" but this can be customized and might be different on your site. Refer to Recommend button customizations, below, for information.

The Recommend option

Below are a few examples of the Recommend option in a site.

Discussion

In the example below, the original Discussion post has been recommended, as indicated by the 1 on the Recommend button. The Discussion's replies can also be recommended.

Library Entry

In this example, the Library Entry has been recommended by one person.

NOTE: This image is from the redesigned Library Entries page; your page might look different.

Blog

In this example, the Blog is yet to be recommended.

Enable and disable the Recommend option

The Recommend option is enabled by default for Discussions, Library Entries, and Blogs in every site.

Super Admins can manage the option and its settings for Discussions only.

NOTE: Create a case to request any of these changes for Library Entries and Blogs.

To manage the option for Discussions:

1. Navigate to any Discussion page.
2. In the Admin Toolbar, click (or right click for a new tab) Edit Page.

3. In Page Designer, click the pencil icon to edit the Discussion Thread View widget.

4. Scroll down to the Show Recommends? setting.

• Yes (enabled): the Recommend button and the number of recommendations will display.
  No (disabled): the button and counter will not display.
• If Show List of Recommenders? is set to Yes: a popup displays the "recommenders" when the number of recommendations counter is clicked.
  To disable the popup, toggle to No.

5. Click Save.

Recommend button customizations

The out-of-the-box:

• label for the "recommend" button is Recommend.
• hover text for the "recommend" button is Recommend this item.

This label and hover text can be customized to better suit your organization's unique community. For example, you might prefer "Like" as the button label and "Like this content" as the hover text.

NOTE: These customizations can be made only by Higher Logic staff. Create a case to request these customizations.

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• Super Admins can also manage the Recommend option for Daily Digest and Real Time messages, as described in Manage Email Digests.