{"id":106,"date":"2023-04-06T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.kialo.dev\/hc\/adding-background-info\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T05:58:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T05:58:10","password":"","slug":"adding-background-info","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/adding-background-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Background Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h_01EZNS70GY4P0DJ0KJMPEN4JBN\">About Background Info<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To introduce users to the discussion and\/or provide key background information, you can write a background info section.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The background info appears when users first visit a discussion and can be opened at any time by selecting &lsquo;Info \/ Stats \/ Topology&rsquo; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/navigating-the-discussion-menu\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"105\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Discussion Menu<\/a> (also see: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/statistics-and-the-infographic\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"115\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Statistics and the Infographic<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h_01EZNS74MHVTY22QGQK5HWWCW4\">Adding, Editing, or Removing Background Info<\/h2><p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e9f1fb\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> To modify the background info in a discussion, you must have <a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/participant-roles-and-permissions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"97\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Admin permissions<\/a> or higher.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To add, edit, or remove the background info:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/navigating-the-discussion-menu\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"105\" referrerpolicy=\"unsafe-url\">Discussion Menu<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and select &lsquo;Discussion Settings&rsquo;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigate to the &lsquo;Background&rsquo; section.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Modify the background info as desired.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When finished, scroll to the bottom of the page and click &lsquo;Save&rsquo;.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Background InfoAdding, Editing, or Removing Background InfoNote: To modify the background info in a discussion, you must have Admin permissions or higher.To add, edit, or remove the background info:&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_doc_category":0,"wds_primary_doc_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[28],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-106","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-creating-a-discussion"],"acf":{"zendesk_id":"115003884109","zendesk_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115003884109-Adding-Background-Info"},"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":118,"total_views":"391","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"mk","author_nicename":"mk","author_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/author\/mk\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Creating a Discussion","term_url":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/hc\/sections\/creating-a-discussion\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.kialo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}