Ghostwriting content

You can ghostwrite, writing content credited to another member, by saving content as a draft and publishing it as another member. Content creators within an organization can use ghostwriting to attribute content to executive team members or dedicated publishing accounts.

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Considerations

  • What supports ghostwriting: You can select an author when publishing the following types of content:
    • Blog posts
    • Calendar events
    • Files
    • Forum topics 
    • Wiki articles
    You can't ghostwrite comments (including forum posts), tasks, or microblog posts.
  • New content only: You can only ghostwrite new or unpublished content. Published content cannot have its author changed.
  • Draft history: Actions or notes made on draft content are recorded in a history timeline located above the draft. This draft history is lost when the draft is published.
  • Access: While content is in draft, you can add additional authors. These added authors can view and edit the draft. However, only authors with at least Write access to the content or at least Edit access to the channel can publish the draft. Once an author publishes the content, all authors will have individual access rules on the content as specified by the channel's authors access rule. Asee Access.
  • Notifications: When you add a member as an author, they receive an email notification. Additional notifications are sent to all authors when the content is edited, notes are added, or the content is published. These notifications contain the term Moderation Notification in the subject line and will indicate who performed this action. See Notifications.
  • Subscriptions: Only the publishing author receives an automatic subscription to the published content. The publishing author may not get this automatic subscription if they've changed their automatic subscription settings. See Subscriptions.
  • Moderated channels and emailing content into a channel: Since ghostwriting requires content to be saved as a draft first, you can't typically ghostwrite content you email into a channel. However, if an author emails the content to a moderated channel, moderators can add and change the author before approving the content.

Who can do this?

  • Enterprise administrators
  • Workplace administrators
  • Space administrators
  • Members of the digital workplace with Write, Edit or Full access

Ghostwrite content

  1. Create your content and save it as a draft. For more information about creating specific types of content, see:
  2. (Optional) If needed, go to the draft. 
    1. On the Userbar, select To dos.
    2. Select Drafts.
    3. Select the draft that you want to ghostwrite.
  3. Add the member for whom you are ghostwriting as an author of the content.
    1. Select+ Plus to add another author to the content.
    2. In the Add Author window, enter the member's name for whom you intend to ghostwrite. As you enter the member’s name, matches will appear in a flyout menu. Select the correct member. 
    3. Select Add.
  4. Publish the content as the other member
    1. Select Publish.
    2. In the Publish as dropdown, select the author you are ghostwriting for.
    3. Select Publish.