Discover conversations and communities in Viva Engage

Discover conversations

1. Select Viva Engage from the home tab on the left rail.

2. The Home Feed shows you the most relevant conversation related to the communities you are connected to, people you're close with, and what's trending across your company.

3. To view your community's conversations, use the left navigation and go directly to the community to see new conversations. When you're all caught up, select the link at the bottom of your feed to go to your next community's new conversations.

Search for conversations, communities and more

1. In the Search bar, type in related keywords to find what you need. As you type, a list of categorized results is displayed with suggested people, communities, files, topics, and links.

2. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, search See All Search Results. Browse the complete search results, which are categorized by tabs.

3. If you need to narrow your search, use Advanced search on the Search Results page.

Join an existing community

1. On the left navigation, select Discover Communities.

2. Browse or use Search to find communities. Read through descriptions, scroll through the feed, or look at members to figure out if the community is relevant to you.

   Note: The All Company community is the default community, and you’re automatically part of it.

3. Select + Join when you find a community that interests you.

   Note: If the community is public, you will be instantly added to it. If it is private, the community administrator will need to approve your join request.

Create a new community 

1. In Viva Engage, select the  button next to the Explore section of the navigation bar.

2. Select Community from the drop down. 

   Note: If this button doesn't appear, your admi​​n applied a group creation policy that gives permissions to specific users to create communities and other entities in Engage.

3. In the Community creation dialog, complete these fields and then select Create.

   Community name	Enter a unique name that isn't already in use. Choose a short name that follows the naming conventions of your organization. If your admin enforces a Microsoft 365 Groups Naming Policy, a prefix or suffix may be appended to the community name. If you want to use the name of a recently deleted community, you must either restore the group or permanently delete the community before you can re-use the name.
   Description	Describe the community to others in 150 or fewer characters. This description is visible to all network members for both private and public communities.
   Members	Enter the names or email addresses of anyone you want to add to the community. You can add up to 19 members while creating a community (20 total including the community creator). Note: The limits here apply only during community creation. After you create your community, you can add more members.
   Who can view conversations and post messages	Public Access gives anyone on your network the ability to view content posted to this community and join this community. Private Access gives only approved members of this community the ability to view the content and a community admin must approve people who request to join this community.
   Classification or Sensitivity	A default classification or sensitivity label is selected under the section. To change it, click Edit, and select the classification or sensitivity label from the drop-down list. These sections will only appear if they have been configured for your organization.
   Communication Configurations	Choose the default publisher for your community and decide if people should be allowed to move conversations from other communities into this one.

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