On the WDC Settings page, you can enable and disable features like Thanks and Skills for your organization.
Required Editions
| Available in: Salesforce Classic |
| Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
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.
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To edit WDC settings: | Customize Application |
- From Setup, enter “WDC Settings” in the Quick Find box, then select WDC Settings.
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Select the WDC feature you want to enable or deselect the feature you want to
disable.
Feature Section Description Enable Thanks Thanks Settings Enable Thanks to allow users to recognize others with thanks badges on the Chatter feed.
If you disable this setting, users no longer see the Thanks action in the Chatter publisher. However, they can still see previously created Thanks posts.
Enable Skills Skills Settings Enable Skills to allow users to add skills to their profiles and endorse the skills of other users. Enabling this setting replaces the Knowledgeable About widget on Chatter profiles. Restrict Skill and Endorsement Editing to Record Detail Pages Skills Settings Disables inline editing of skills and endorsements on Chatter profiles, and restricts editing to record detail pages. Recommended if you have customized these objects with custom required fields.
Note Don’t enable this setting if you want to use skills in Chatter profiles.Enable Automatic Skill Feed Posts Skills Settings Enable to automatically create Chatter feed posts when a user adds a new skill. Enable Suggested Skills Skills Settings Enable Suggested Skills to have the skills widget suggest skills for users to add based on their Chatter Topics activity. - Click Save.