How Streams works:

Streams enables social media style interaction within teams/ groups facilitated by likes and comments for different entities, which can be shared with groups or individuals.

• Status Messages
• Events
• Tasks
• Notes 
• Emails
• Bookmarks

A moderator or an Administrator can enable Streams for the group. Once the group is 'Streamified', all the members can view it under Streams Groups listing on the left pane. Once enabled, the members can start posting messages to the groups. The users can also add posts directly to individual members' walls. Group Streams will have the activities and shares in Streams for the particular group. Any individual posts or shares will be available in the 'My Streams' area of the Home.

Likes

The users can 'Like' a post or a comment, by clicking the Heart icon of the post/ comment. A like to the post/ comment can be interpreted as an agreement or a positive nod to the post. The owner of the post/ comment will receive notifications whenever someone likes his/ her post or comment. 

Comments

Comments help the users to provide their feedback instantly in a quick and simple manner. You can,

• Use the Markdown options to format your comments in rich text.
• @mention other users in the Comment section and invite them to the post or to notify them about the discussion.
• Edit the comment you have already posted by clicking the Edit icon. 
  • When you edit a comment, all participants will be sent a notification about the change.
  • The time of your last edited comment will also be displayed.
• Use keyboard shortcuts for editor actions.
• Add images and rich format texts to your comments via copy-pasting.
• You can also add attachments to your comments by dragging and droping files from desktop, attachment viewer or attachments from mail, post or other entities. 
• You can edit a post using the Edit as new option and create a new post. A post with attachments can also be edited to create a new post along with the attachments in the original post.
  

Streams Views

Your Streams page can be viewed in two different layouts, namely, the Social view and the List view. 

Social view

In the Social view, your posts will be listed in a social media format. The options to comment on a post, invite members, like a post etc. will be displayed below the original post. 

List view

In the list view, your posts will be listed as in email listing. You can click each post to preview it separately. The options to perform actions on this post or view the comments will be provided in the preview pane. To quickly perform actions on the post, there are the context menu options which appear on right clicking a post. To learn more about the context menu options, refer to this page.

Changing Streams view:

After opening your Streams page, locate the Social view and List view icons on the top right corner of your page. The selected view will be highlighted. Click the desired view to change your page's layout. 

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Status Message

Members of the group can post statuses or messages in the Streams group. This feature is particularly useful when you have information that is to be shared or discussed with a group of people. When you create a streams post, you can

• Invite members outside the group by @mentioning them in the post or the group.
• Drag and drop images and documents, attach Workdrive files, embed videos, and add smileys to the post.
• Use the rich text editor to format your messages the way you want.
• Disable or enable invite user options depending on your requirement using the Allow/ Refuse invitee icon.
  
• Add a title to your streams post by clicking the + icon.
  
• Easily remove all text formating by simply selecting the text and clicking the Remove Formating icon.
  
• Make changes to your post by clicking Edit in the action menu. When you edit a post, all participants will be sent a notification about the change. The time you made changes the latest will also be displayed.