Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Gpf Basics: Discovery Your Discussions Inwards The Google Production Forums

March 2019: The Google Help Forums are moving to a novel platform integrated alongside the Google Help Centers. These instructions no longer apply.

If y'all accept posted a inquiry inwards the Google Product Forums together with are waiting for an answer, or you've replied to someone's question together with desire to their response, y'all tin easily notice your discussions.

If y'all accept e-mail notifications enabled y'all volition larn an e-mail message when y'all larn a response. But e-mail isn't necessary - y'all tin notice all your give-and-take topics inwards the Google Product Forum itself. 

You accept ii options:
  • Select "My Discussions" inwards the left card - this volition display all your discussions inwards every Google Product Forum
  • Open a special Google Product Forum and Filter your discussions 
Read on for to a greater extent than details!

GPF Basics: getting unopen to the Google Product Forums

1. Find the correct google production help forum!
2. Join the forum together with configure your membership together with e-mail settings
3. Search the forum for like questions
4. Reply to a topic
5. Post a novel topic of y'all own

>> 6. Find your discussions

  • Click "My Discussions" inwards the left menu
  • Use Actions > Filters to listing your discussions inside a forum
Note: all instructions are for the desktop version of the Google Product Forums.


Find Your Discussions inwards all Google Product Forums


To notice all your discussions - every topic y'all accept posted or replied to - but opened upwards the Forums together with click "My Discussions" inwards the left menu.

1. Open whatever page on productforums.google.com - whatever Google Product Forum, search trial or the primary GPF dwelling page

2. Click the three draw of piece of job card icon on the piece of job past times left

This is the primary forum dwelling page - the card is available everywhere inwards the Google Product Forums

3. Click My Discussions in the card list



Tip: y'all tin bookmark a link to "My Discussions":
productforums.google.com/forum/#!mydiscussions


4. View the listing of topics

Topics alongside unread replies volition live bold.

Note: the default variety social club of My Discussions is past times Date (last updated), rather than past times Relevance 

Tip: Open the adjacent post or previous post on the listing past times clicking the Next Topic/Previous Topic arrows on the piece of job past times correct of a topic page, or past times using the J/K keyboard shortcuts


Use Filters to notice your discussions

You tin purpose the Google Product Forum Filters to notice your discussions that accept novel replies.

1. Open the Google Product Forum y'all posted your topic or reply in

Note: the Filter pick is non available on topic post pages, alone on the primary forum together with search results pages

2. At the piece of job past times of the concealment click Actions



3. From the Actions card click Filters




4.  In the Filter options conduct All my discussions




Note: Top Contributors together with Rising Stars volition run into additional Filter options. 

5. Click Apply

6. Change the search trial variety social club from "Relevance" to Date"



Tip: Bookmark the Filter search results page or salve it inwards your forum "Saved searches" inwards the left menu

Tip: Open the adjacent post or previous post on the listing past times clicking the Next Topic/Previous Topic arrows on the piece of job past times correct of a topic page, or past times using the J/K keyboard shortcuts


Whew! Now you've mastered the basics of the Google Product Forums!

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