We are trying to improve adoption of the discussion post capabilities. Is there a way to display the # of discussion posts in the same way I can display the # of emails, or # of files in the project view?
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We also tried to do something about it... still no one uses discussions, except me and a couple more users.
As far as I remember, I was told your request is not possible. You could look into creating a custom home page, however.
Hi Mark, you could try this:
Hope it helps!
Jonathan,
That works if you want to know how many discussions a user is linked to, but does not provide only the number of posts a user has made.
I looked to achieve the same thing and created a field just as you described, but against the user. I still have not found a way to restrict the count to only 'posted' posts rather than 'notified' posts.
You could apply the same custom field but against the user object (instead of project) and add it to a people module view.
Jonathan,
Yes, that is what I've already done, but it counts all posts in that users list, not those they have actually posted to. So if I start a discussion then all users who are following and directly included will receive the post in their thread and the count of discussions for all these users would increase by one.
What I would really like (and I believe Mark also) is that ability to know how many posts each user has made. So if they have been included in 10 discussion threads but have never responded to any then their count should still be zero. I'm happy (and had already) created a basic count, but can't find the formula to only count the posts by a user rather than all discussions in their thread.
You could try filtering the custom field by item type 'reply'
Requested the same some time ago.
Requested the same some time ago.