The feed is used to share information on an entry in ELO (document or folder) and track changes.

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 filed or changes are made to the working version)

Writing a 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 a poll

Clicking the Create poll button opens a new area in the ELO feed in which you can start a user poll.

Enter the title or question of the poll in the first input field (with the placeholder text Ask a question). Enter the answer options to the next input fields (with the placeholder text Add answer option). To create an additional answer option, click the Add new answer button. You can select how long you want the poll to remain open in the Poll duration field.

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

Click Create to open 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 already participated.

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 directly 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. 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 a hashtag

Steps

1. Click the respective hashtag to subscribe to it.

The discussion page for the selected hashtag appears.

2. Click the Subscribe button.

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 searched term is found, the feed is reduced 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 subscribed feeds are listed in the My ELO work area. Once a post is added to a subscribed feed, 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 or User menu [your name] > Configuration > Administration > My ELO.

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 area, click the button again.

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

Enter a 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.

Feed history

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