Administration > Discussions

The Discussions feature provides topics that team members can use to communicate. If the feature is turned on, translators, reviewers, and project managers can start topics about projects, documents, segments, terms, term bases, or about anything in general. You can turn it on or off here. Normally, . If topics are turned on (normally they are), you can still turn off some of them.

To turn off the Discussions feature on the server: Clear the Discussions on server check box. Nobody will be able to see comments, or comment on anything.

If topics are turned on in general, you can turn off some of them:

• To prevent users from posting comments that are not related to any particular item (such as a term base, an entry, a document, or a segment): Clear the Generic topics check box.
• To disable commenting in Qterm: Clear the Qterm-related topics check box.
• To turn off email notifications about new comments on followed topics: Clear the E-mail notifications check box.

To hide topics from certain users, use groups: If you want to hide topics from some users, but not all, do not turn off Discussions. Instead, create a group that is excluded from topics, and add these users to that group. Topics will be available for everyone else, but these users will not see any of them.