The New Topic action allows you to initiate a new topic from a People, Mail, Workflow, Document or Event record in IQ if your User ID has been granted access to the appropriate Security Lock.
To add a topic:
Select the New Topic action from the Discussion panel of the People, Mail, Workflow, Document, or Event record.
Enter information in fields on the New Discussion Topic dialog page. You must enter information in the Subject field before you can save the topic.
Click the Save button.
Enter a brief description of the topic in this field. You can check the spelling of text entered into this field by clicking the spell check icon next to the field. IQ displays the first 30 characters of this text in the blue section heading on the Discussion panel of the record page.
Use this field to provide more details about the topic. IQ displays this text below the subject on the Discussion panel of the record page and in discussion alerts. This is a text-entry field, which means you can type and delete text in this field just as in a word processor. This field is limited to 4,000 characters. If you manually enter text into this field, IQ displays the message "Please limit your entry to 4000 characters (# of characters cut=1)" once you type the 4,001 character and will not allow you to enter any additional characters. If you copy and paste text into this field, IQ will truncate it at 4,000 characters and display a message with the number of characters that were cut. You can check the spelling of text entered into this field by clicking the spell check icon next to the field.
Select this check box if you would like to receive a Discussion alert when a reply is posted to this topic. This check box is selected by default if your user Preference is set to automatically subscribe to topics where you are a participant.
Select the user or users to receive a Discussion Alert for this Topic. Type the user name or click the lookup icon to select from a list of available users.
Select the group or groups to receive a Discussion Alert for this Topic. Type the group name or click the lookup icon to select from a list of available groups.
When this check box is selected, the Users and/or Group members that have been selected in the New Discussion Topic will appear below the message text. For example: Discussion Alert(s) Sent to: Robin Fry, Lynn Stroh, Tim Brown.