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Posting a link in the legacy UI

Share a useful link to a community . For example, you might post a link about paying invoices to your organisation's Finance community. 

If you are using the new version of the platform, see Creating content in the new UI .

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To post a link on Fuse:

  1. On the Fuse homepage, on the navigation bar , click Post

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    The New content page appears.

  2. Click the Link tab. 

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  3. In the Paste your link here (required) field, paste or type the web page link:

    • The link must include the https:// prefix.

    • You can post multiple links to Fuse that have the same URL.

    • Where available, Fuse automatically pulls a title, description and thumbnail from the link, and generates one or more tags. This depends on the platform hosting the link  -  some platforms allow this data to be publicly available (in which case Fuse can retrieve it); whereas some do not (in which case Fuse is unable retrieve it). If Fuse cannot auto-populate this data, you must populate it manually

    • You can add links to Instagram and Facebook pages but a thumbnail, title and description cannot be extracted automatically.

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  4. If necessary, change the information.

  5. In the Where would you like to upload it to? specify where to post the link. Select one the following options: 

    • Community: Select one or more communities and, if necessary, select one or more topics.

    • Evidence Portfolio: Select this option if you want the link to be saved in your Evidence Portfolio. For more information about Evidence Portfolio, see  Evidence portfolio

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  6. In the Notifications section, you can decide who to notify when the link is posted. Select one of the following options: 

    • Don't notify anyone: No users are notified. 

    • Notify all community members: All users in a selected community are notified.

    • Notify specific users: Only selected users in a community are notified. 

      When posting content to an Evidence Portfolio: 

      • The Notify all community members option is not available.

      • If the user selects Notify specific users, they can only select their manager(s).

      • In order for the manager to appear in the Notify specific users list, they must have a manager assigned.

  7. Click Post.
    The link is posted to Fuse.