You will find automatically generated information on the entry in the feed and can discuss the entry with other users here.

When you subscribe to a feed for an entry, any new posts in the feed are shown on your My ELO home screen.

If you tag users with @, the post will also appear in the feed on their My ELO home screen even if they have not subscribed to the feed.

The following message types are shown in the feed:

• Posts (written by a user)
• Comments (on a post)
• Polls
• Events (e.g. when a new version of a document is stored or changes are made to the working version)

Create post

Use the Create a post field to comment on the respective entry in a feed. Click Create to post the comment.

Alternative: Press CTRL+ENTER to submit a post.

The text in posts, polls, and comments can be formatted as follows:

Bold: To format a part of the text in bold type, place an asterisk (*) at the beginning and end of the text section. I would like to emphasize this *again*. will appear in the ELO feed as follows: "I would like to emphasize this again."

Information: If you want the asterisk to appear as a character in the text, enter a backslash before the asterisk.

Create poll

If you click the Create poll button, fields for creating a poll with multiple answer options appear.

Poll duration: With this field, you can specify how long you want the poll to remain open. You can select a value from the drop-down menu or manually enter how many days you want the poll to remain open. For example, if you enter 4, the poll will remain open for four days.

Show additional options: Clicking this button opens an area with additional settings. You can you define whether you want to offer the user multiple options to select from, whether you want the user name to be visible in the poll result, and whether you want participants to be able to add further answer options.

Click Create to start the poll.

Click the pencil icon to edit a poll that has already started. You can edit the poll as long as no one has taken part yet.

Click the X icon to delete a poll that has already started. You cannot undo this.

Mention

Use the Mention button (@ symbol) to address a feed post to another ELO user or group. The users mentioned then see the corresponding feed post in the My ELO work area.

Alternative: As soon as you type an @ character, ELO automatically recognizes that you want to insert a mention.

Reference

Use the Reference button (document icon with arrow) to link a feed post with an entry in ELO Teamroom. Click the reference to go straight to the respective entry.

You can select the entry that you want to refer to in the Reference dialog box.

Alternative: As soon as you type a > character, ELO automatically recognizes that you want to insert a reference.

Alternative: Select the entry you want to reference and then press CTRL+C. Click the feed post you want to insert the reference into and press CTRL+V. This requires the current ELOwf version.

Hashtag

Use the Hashtag button (# symbol) to add hashtags to a post. You can subscribe to hashtags. You can also filter the My ELO work area by hashtags.

Alternative: As soon as you type a # character, ELO automatically recognizes that you want to insert a hashtag. The hashtag drop-down menu opens.

Subscribe to hashtag

Method

1. Click the respective hashtag to subscribe to it.

The discussion page for the selected hashtag appears.

Click the Subscribe button.

Result

You have subscribed to the hashtag. All posts that are marked with the corresponding hashtag appear in the My ELO work area.

Visibility

Use the Visibility button (eye icon) to restrict who can read the post.

Search feed

Use the Search feed button (magnifying glass icon) to search within the currently selected feed. When the search term is found, the feed is narrowed down to the corresponding posts. The matches are highlighted. Start the search by clicking Search. Click Reset search to exit the results list and return to the full feed.

Subscribe to feed

Use the Subscribe button (antenna icon) to subscribe to the feed. All feeds you have subscribed to are listed in the My ELO work area. Once a post is added to one of these feeds, you also see the post in the My ELO work area.

Automatically subscribe to feed

ELO provides you with the option to automatically subscribe to feeds.

You can enable the automatic feed subscription option under My ELO > Settings.

Show filter options

The Show filter options button opens a window with filters for the corresponding feed. You can use these filters to restrict the feed to posts that match the respective filter. To close the selection, click the button again.

You can also see when filters are active, even when filter options are hidden.

Enter comment

You can enter comments on any post. The procedure for adding a comment is almost identical to creating a post. However, the visibility settings for a comment are bound to the visibility settings for the commented post, which is why you are unable to change the visibility settings for comments.

Edit post

Click the Edit button (pencil icon) to edit posts and comments.

Editing history

Edited entries are marked as edited below the entry. To open the editing history, click edited.

Settings

Click Settings to change settings related to the feed.

Show current hashtags

If the preview pane in My ELO is not large enough to show hashtag information, the Show current hashtags button will appear.

If you click the Show current hashtags button, hashtag information is displayed above the subscribed feed.

Hashtag cloud

Hashtags that have been used in recent weeks are shown in a hashtag cloud. If you click a hashtag, you will see all feed items that contain that hashtag, provided you have the required permissions.

Show filter options

If the preview pane in My ELO is not large enough to show the filters, the Show filter options button will appear.

Click Show filter options to display the filters above the subscribed feed.

To hide the filters, click Hide filter options.

Filters in 'My ELO'

Various filter categories are available. The majority is self-explanatory.

Post type: The Post type is filter option lets you filter the My ELO area by the type of post. There are two basic types:

• Automatically created posts (e.g. working version changed)
• Posts created by users (e.g. user posts)

Apply filters

To apply a filter, click the corresponding filter in the list.

Negate filters

In the default settings, all filters are applied in is mode.

The mode can be switched to is not in all categories apart from New since. Click the word is next to the name of the filter category.

Reset filters

To reset all filters, click the Reset filters button (arrow icon).

Mark as important

The Mark as important button (flag icon) lets you pin a post to the My ELO work area. The post remains in My ELO even if it is more than one month old. You can recognize posts that are marked as important by the red flag icon.

Delete marker

Delete the marker you added to a post with the Delete marker button (red flag icon). As soon as the post is more than a month old, it will no longer be displayed in the My ELO work area.

Hide post

You can hide a post in the My ELO work area by clicking the Remove from My ELO button.

Information: The Remove from my ELO function only hide posts in the My ELO area. The entries are not deleted.

After you have hidden a post, you can restore it by clicking the Undo button.

Information: The Undo button disappears by default after five seconds. You can edit this option under Number of seconds to display the "Undo" button before it disappears. This option is in My ELO > Settings > My ELO settings.

Edit profile

You can access your profile by clicking on your name or profile picture in a feed post.

You can enter information about your position and contact details in your profile.

You can also upload a profile picture.

Information: Use PNG, JPG or GIF image files with a minimum of 280 x 280 pixels. If ELO is unable to process the format or the size of the selected image, a message will appear at the bottom of the dialog box.

Your profile is visible to other users when they click your name or profile picture in the feed.