Editing

Deleting Events, Comments, and Likes

Users can delete their comments and likes from an item, and delete any comment they authored.

Click unlike to remove a like

To delete their like, users need only click the Unlike link that shows where the "Like" link had once been.

To delete like click Unlike

To delete their comment, they need to hoverdrag the mouse cursor over the comment, and a Delete Comment link appears to the right. Those with the Delete Events global permission can also delete the comments of others.

If the global Activity Authors Can Delete Comments option is turned on, then the person whose event you have commented on can also delete your comment.

To delete their event, they must drag the mouse cursor over the item, and a down arrow icon will appear in the upper right of the item.

This opens a menu that has a delete option on it. Owners of the community and those with the Delete Events global permission can also delete the events of others.

While deleting a comment means it is truly deleted from the system, deleting an activity stream item only results in its being removed from all displays, as it is stored in SharePoint’s store.

Editing

If your organization has enabled this optional feature, you will see an Edit option in the upper right corner menu of microblogs or questions you authored which have not yet had comments or likes added to them.

After making your changes, click Save to delete the old item and replace it with the edited version.

If you made the last comment or answer on a post, you will similarly have an edit option for that.

Starting in the 5.2 release, it is now possible to edit a post after it has likes or comments added if your company has chosen to enable this in Central Admin

Locking a stream item

In some cases, users want to stop comments from being added to an activity stream item.

To allow this, there is a Lock setting on stream items which you create to let you do this. When you lock an item, the comment control is removed.

Any user who would haves delete rights on an item will also have the rights to lock or unlock an item. This includes users with global delete rights and community owners.

Reporting abuse

If the global Abuse Reporting feature has been activated, users can report any stream item as abusive by clicking the Report option in the upper right pull down menu of any stream item.

Select Report

This opens an input box where they can provide a reason for reporting the item. The abuse report is sent to a globally-configured email address. There is a global option to make the reports anonymous.

The user is informed as to whether their report is anonymous or not.

Input box for providing reason