• Introduction
  • Mind Your Reputation
  • Create New Content
  • Create a Blog Post
    • Assign your blog to a space
    • Schedule the launch of your blog
  • Start a Discussion
    • Assign your discussion to a space
  • Create a Document
    • Assign your document to a space
    • Collaborate on your document with other members
  • Submit Official SAP Content
  • Create a Status Update

Introduction

SAP Community Network thrives on the energy and engagement of its members. Your engagement in SCN is its own reward, but you need to be a registered, logged-in SCN Member to participate. When you are logged in, you can write blogs, create documents, or start discussions in any SCN Topic Space. And you can rate, like, follow, share, or bookmark any kind of content.  You can follow other SCN members, but we are happy to report that you cannot bookmark or rate them.

Mind Your Reputation

When you create content such as a blog or a new document the system automatically awards you SCN Reputation Points. In addition, when other SCN members “like,” share, or rate your content, you are awarded additional reputation points. In this way, excellent content that continues to receive high ratings over a long period of time continues to add points to your reputation as the content creator.

If you contribute content and engage in several SCN Topic Spaces, you earn reputation points for sharing your knowledge and expertise in those topics. In each topic space, the Overview page displays top participants for that space.   

Create New Content

As a logged-in SCN member, you can use the Create Content menu to create a Blog Post or a Document, start a Discussion, send a Status Update, or send a Direct Message:

Create a Blog Post

You can create a Blog Post anywhere in SCN, as long as that blog post is discussing something relevant to the area in which you post it. You can start a Blog Post and save a draft, to be finished later. When you publish a blog in a Topic Space, you are automatically awarded SCN Reputation Points.

To create a Blog Post, select Create Blog Post

Assign your blog to a space

Before you begin writing a blog, you need to assign it to a space where your blog will “live”.

• Enter the name of the space in which your blog should live, or click the magnifier icon to select from all SCN Topic Spaces.
• It’s likely that you will find the space where your blog should live amongst your recently selected places. 

You have the option to post your blog in your own blog area instead of an SCN Topic Space if it is a personal blog that does not provide knowledge or value to a specific topic area. If you choose this option, your blog will be available to Search and can be viewed by other members, but you will not receive any SCN Reputation Points when you publish your blog.

Schedule the launch of your blog

You can schedule when your blog should be published and you can manage whether or not you will allow comments to your blog from other members. Of course, we recommend that you allow comments. You are also able to close your blog to comments and not allow any new ones. 

Tip in a Minute: watch this video and learn how to  create a blog post.

Start a Discussion

You can start a discussion in any in SCN Topic Space. To start a discussion, select Create Discussion

Assign your discussion to a space

Before you can start a discussion, you need to designate a space where your discussion will take place.

• Enter the name of the space in which your discussion should live, or click the magnifier icon to select from all SCN Topic Spaces.
• It’s likely that you will find the space where your discussion should live amongst your recently selected places. 

• You have the option to start a Private Discussion with SCN members that you select.

Tip in a Minute: Watch this video and learn how to start a discussion thread

Create a Document

You can create a Document anywhere in SCN. You can start a Document and save a draft, to be finished later. Documents offer some good possibilities for collaboration. You can determine who can edit your document or who might need to sign off before the document is published.

When you publish a document in a Topic Space, you are automatically awarded SCN Reputation Points.

To create a Document, select Create Document

Assign your document to a space

Before you begin writing a document, you need to assign it to a space where the document will “live.”

• Enter the name of the space in which your document should live, or click the magnifier icon to select from all SCN Topic Spaces.
• It’s likely that you will find the space where your document should live amongst your recently selected places.

Collaborate on your document with other members

Documents have some collaboration features that blogs do not. Before you save or publish your document, open Collaboration Options to manage who can collaborate with you on the document.

• You can allow any SCN member to edit your document, much like a wiki page.
• You can restrict editing rights to members that you select.
• You can decide that only you can edit the document, much like a blog post.

·     You can manage whether or not you will allow comments to your documents from other members. We recommend that you allow comments. You are also able to close your documents to new comments. 

Tip in a Minute: Collaborating on Documents

Submit Official SAP Content

Access the Content Submission System to submit articles and media (SAP employees only), and use the SCN document template.

Create a Status Update

In the new SCN, you have the opportunity to update other community members, in a few words, about what is going on in your field, or current events, or even things of general interest. You can do this by “updating your status.” You can post a new update whenever you like, and you’re also able to include links and images in your status. To update your status, click on “Create” in the dashboard toolbar and you will see “Update your status” in the drop-down menu.

To view someone’s status updates you can go to their profile, click “Activity” and then filter by clicking “Status Updates Only.”