Create a group discussion

If your administrator enables the group discussion feature, you can create topic-based group discussions and search for and participate in discussions. If the feature is not enabled, the New Chat icon opens a chat window. If the group discussion feature is enabled, but your administrator disabled the "Allow users to create New Group Discussion" option, the "New Group Discussion" option is not available.
  1. Tap The Chats icon.
  2. Tap The New Chat icon.
  3. Complete one of the following tasks:

    Task

    Steps

    Create a group discussion.

    		 The "Allow users to create New Group Discussion" policy must be enabled in your environment to complete this task.
    1. Tap Create Group Discussion.
    2. Type a name and optional description for the group discussion.
    3. Tap The Add members icon.
    4. On the Contacts tab, tap the contacts from your Contacts list that you want to invite to the group discussion.
    5. On the All tab, type a username in the search field to search for a user in your environment's Active Directory. Tap the user. Repeat this step for each user that you want to invite.
    6. Tap Done.
    7. Optionally, beside a member tap The Role icon to assign the member Manager permissions for the group discussion. Managers can modify the discussion information. For more information, see Change the group discussion information.
    8. Click Done.

    Quick create a group discussion.

    Note: Creating group discussions using this method automatically creates a unique name for the discussion. A description is not added.
    1. Tap New Chat.
    2. In the New Chat screen, complete the following tasks to invite members to your group discussion:
      • Add a contact from your Contacts list: Click The Add members icon and tap the contact you want to invite.
      • Add a user from your environment's Active Directory: Type the username and tap the user.
    3. Repeat step b for each additional contact you want to invite.

    The group discussion is created when you send the first message.