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# Draft Posts in Chatter

Save Chatter posts as drafts and access them later to edit, publish, or delete.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Essentials</strong>, <strong>Group</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, <strong>Contact Manager</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> editions.</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small permission">
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          <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d14043e81">User Permissions
            Needed</th>
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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d14043e81 ">To see drafts:</td>

          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d14043e81 ">Allow draft posts</td>

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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d14043e81 ">To save and publish drafts:</td>

          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d14043e81 ">
            <p>Edit my Own Posts</p>
            <p>AND</p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Allow users to edit posts and comments</p>
          </td>

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The Draft Posts feature automatically saves your Chatter posts as you create them, including content like files, links, images, mentions, hashtags, and other rich text.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-collaboration-264-0-0-production-enus/1aab5b5e-c990-4b8c-840a-6fb18af49709/images/icon_note.png)

Note

The Drafts Posts feature is available only for Chatter Posts, and not for Questions or Polls. You also can’t create Chatter Posts on draft Knowledge articles.

Draft posts save automatically as you type a post. Once you’ve added text or a rich text item to your post, **Saving...** appears next to **Share** and then changes to **Saved**. When your draft is saved, you can access it from **My Drafts**.

To access a draft post from **My Drafts**:

1. Go to the Chatter tab and select **My Drafts**.
2. From the post’s dropdown menu, you can select **Edit**, **Publish**, or **Delete**.

When a draft is saved,

- Attached files remain private until the post is published.
- If the draft contains a hashtag, the corresponding topic is not created until the post is published.
- It can be found in **My Drafts**, but doesn’t appear in search.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-collaboration-264-0-0-production-enus/1aab5b5e-c990-4b8c-840a-6fb18af49709/images/icon_note.png)

Note

Post visibility settings are saved only for the first draft. After a draft post has saved, you can edit the post in My Drafts, but you can’t change the post’s visibility.

![Example](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-collaboration-264-0-0-production-enus/1aab5b5e-c990-4b8c-840a-6fb18af49709/images/icon_example.png)

Example

Here’s how you edit a post from **My Drafts**:

![Draft post example](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-collaboration-264-0-0-production-enus/1aab5b5e-c990-4b8c-840a-6fb18af49709/collaboration/images/collab_edit_draft.png)