Community & Forums

From which plan is the Forums available in Freshdesk?
Forums is a community on your portal using which your customers could build an active discussion to find mutual solutions. You could join and be a part of t...
Wed, 12 Apr, 2023 at 10:36 AM
What is the hierarchy of the community forums in Freshdesk?
Community Forums can be built with three levels of hierarchy. Categories-->Forums-->Topics. At the top level, you could have various Community...
Mon, 24 Jul, 2017 at 10:02 PM
How to automatically convert forum topics to tickets?
If you are looking to convert any forum topic to tickets, so that you could reply directly to customers, you could use the option "Auto-Convert Topics ...
Wed, 19 Jul, 2017 at 11:54 PM
How to setup private forums?
You can restrict the visibility of forums to specific customers or keep it internal to just your agents, if needed. While creating a 'New Forum', yo...
Mon, 18 Feb, 2019 at 2:13 PM
Users are complaining that they are required to enter Captcha each time they start a Forum topic/ creating a ticket. How to have this disabled?
Mandating the users to enter a Captcha before creating a Forum topic has been put in place to deflect spam users from your account. However, if you wish to ...
Sat, 26 Jun, 2021 at 3:19 AM
How do we approve forums in Freshdesk before they are published on the portal?
You could moderate and approve any forum topic that is newly created before it is published on your Freshdesk portal. To set up Forum Moderation, kindly nav...
Sat, 26 Jun, 2021 at 3:21 AM
Who will receive the approval email for forums?
You can add the agents who would receive the moderation emails and would have permissions to moderate Forum Topics. To add agents to moderate your forums, p...
Sat, 26 Jun, 2021 at 3:22 AM
How to disable forum moderation emails?
If Forum Moderation is turned on, you would receive notification emails for approval, whenever a new Topic is created. You can turn off forum moderation by ...
Sat, 26 Jun, 2021 at 3:23 AM
Is there a way to block people from creating Forum topics?
You would face instances where you receive Spam Posts or when you would like to monitor the content which is being added to your Forums. To achieve this, Fr...
Wed, 19 Jul, 2017 at 11:57 PM
I am unable to convert a ticket to a forum topic.
If the contact is not a verified contact, the ticket cannot be converted to a topic. To verify a contact account, an activation email should be sent after w...
Wed, 5 Sep, 2018 at 12:45 PM