Creating a Q&A Community with Vanilla
Questions are tagged in the discussion view.
Users are notified their questions have been answered.
Users can indicate if a reply answers the question or not.
Accepted answers are displayed at the top of the thread. Rejected or unmarked replies will be displayed below. Best Answers can be styled with CSS to stand out.
A menu link helps users find unanswered questions.
Users who answer questions are rewarded with Badges and earn reputation points.
Setting this up is very easy. All you have to do is turn on the Q&A plugin. That’s it!
To change the styling of the accepted answers, you can edit the CSS with something like this:
ul.AcceptedAnswers .Item {
background: transparent;
}
ul.AcceptedAnswers {
border: solid thick blue;
background-color: #eeeeee;
border-radius: 15px;
-webkit-border-radius: 15px;
-moz-border-radius: 15px;
}
A great example of Q&A is Harvard/MIT’s Broad Institute GATK community.
