Filter Topics on Categories

This article guides community managers and admins on how to use filters in the tabs widget.

Overview

The community serves as a crucial platform for members to engage, ask questions, and share knowledge. It highlights active discussions and unanswered questions, making it easier for participants to navigate and contribute.

However, when the community has custom pages that contain multiple product information, users can utilize the filters on topics category to filter information on specific topics.

Tabs widget

The tabs widget has three configurable streams displayed as tabs:

• Recent activity: This shows a list of recently active topics.
• Categories: This shows a list of community parent and child categories.
• Help Others: This shows a list of recently asked questions that don’t have the best answer assigned yet.

For more information on how to add the Tabs widget, refer to the Getting started with homepage design article.

The default first tab in the list is the Recent Activity tab when visitors come to your community.

You can rearrange the tabs and use the filter option to show specific category topics within the widget.

Edit Tabs Widget

You can edit the widget to rearrange the tabs or filter the specific posts, topics, or questions that you want to view in the Tabs widget.

To edit the widget:

1. Log in to Destination.
2. Click Edit Layout.
3. Hover over the Tabs Widget and click the Pencil icon. The Tabs slide-out panel appears.
4. Under the Tabs settings, hold and drag the tabs to rearrange as required.
5. From the Filter topics on categories drop-down, select the category to be filtered.
6. Click Done.
7. Click Publish to reflect the changes in the community.

The Tabs widget now displays only information related to the topics selected in the filter.