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emiller
Helper ⭐️
February 24, 2026

Change Best Answer label from "Solved" to "Answered"

  • February 24, 2026
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Please change the best answer label from “Solved” to “Answered” or allow us to configure the word we want to use.  The word “solved” is counterproductive to running our community as a peer-to-peer forum and not an official support channel.  Product break/fix issues are often reported but cannot be “solved” via the community.  It is important to us to be able to mark official employee responses as a best answer as they do represent the best advice we (Marketing team) can provide in that forum.  Our members frequently complain about the “Solved” label and the negative sentiment it generates could be easily avoided with a simple label change.

Examples of “best answers” that we want to mark:

  • Referring a customer to support when the issue they brought up cannot be addressed via the community, sometimes with guidance around the best way to expedite their case
  • Confirming that a known issue exists and will be fixed soon. We don’t always have the ability to come back and post when it is fixed.
  • Confirming that a product gap exists (feature not available), with or without a workaround.  When the answer is that we have passed along their feedback to the product team, members complain that it should not be marked “solved” until we add the feature they want.
  • Providing advice, help articles, etc as a starting point when the customer may still need further assistance from support 

We need a best answer to reflect the outcome of the question and not the outcome of the issue that is the subject of the question since most of the time, the issue is resolved via other channels.

7 replies

Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
February 24, 2026

Good news! This is actually possible via the Phrases tool.

Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
February 24, 2026

You can do this via the Customization > Phrases menu in control, or directly on a post by enabling Phrase editing mode:

 

 

Larry
Helper ⭐️⭐️
March 20, 2026
New Idea→Closed (Won't Do)
Larry Imgrund || Senior Product Manager & Community Nerd
Larry
Helper ⭐️⭐️
March 20, 2026

Thanks ​@mbuuck1 for addressing this!

Larry Imgrund || Senior Product Manager & Community Nerd
emiller
emillerAuthor
Helper ⭐️
April 7, 2026

​@mbuuck1 Thanks for that! I tried to change it in the phrases area under customization but that didn’t seem to work.  However I was able to edit it here:

 

jvdc
Expert ⭐️
April 7, 2026

You can edit the text on any best answer and it'll change it globally 😉

Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
April 7, 2026

Hi ​@emiller! Yes, ​@jvdc is right - you can make this sort of change in via either method and it will apply everywhere that specific phrase is used. Fortunately, you don’t have to do that post by post. But, for more information on how phrases work, I recommend this article from Gainsight’s knowledge base. You can think of the menu available via Customization > Phrases simply as the backend view of the very same thing you’re seeing on the front end. It can be helpful for an overview of all the customizable bits of your UI, with an editing interface that’s a little easier to use in my opinion.