Endorse a Skill Via Record Detail Pages

Endorse a user’s skill to promote their expertise in a specific area.

Required Editions

Available in: Salesforce Classic

WDC is available for existing WDC customers in Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition, Performance Edition, Unlimited Edition, and Developer Edition.

Important
Important Starting in Spring ’22, WDC isn’t available to new Salesforce customers. For existing customers, WDC features and records from Badges, Skills, and Thanks aren’t affected and will remain available in the application beyond Spring ’22. WDC Goals, Coaching, Feedback, Performance, and Rewards features won’t appear in the application anymore, and records created previously will no longer be accessible.
Note
Note On May 1, 2020, we rebranded this suite. It's now called WDC.
User Permissions Needed
To add endorsements to skills:

Create on Endorsements

AND

Read on Skills and Skill Users

  1. Go to the profile page of the user you’d like to endorse.
  2. Click the dropdown button in the upper right corner and select User Detail.
  3. In the User Skills section, click the Skill User Name or Endorsements link next to the skill you’d like to endorse.
  4. Click Add Endorsement.
  5. Click Save.

You can also endorse skills on Chatter profile pages.