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How to enable and use Salesforce content flagging

Enabling flagging means configuring moderation in your Experience Cloud site, assigning moderators, and optionally adding custom flag fields for record-level use cases.

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Enabling flagging means configuring moderation in your Experience Cloud site, assigning moderators, and optionally adding custom flag fields for record-level use cases.

  1. Enable moderation in Experience Cloud

    Setup, then Digital Experiences, then your site, then Workspaces, then Moderation. Enable the moderation features. Configure Moderation Rules for automated flagging.

  2. Assign moderators

    Set the Moderate Experiences permission on the profiles or permission sets of users who should review flagged content. Moderators access the Moderation Queue.

  3. Configure Knowledge article flagging

    For Knowledge, enable Flag as Inappropriate on the relevant data categories. Set the recipient (moderator or article owner) and the notification template.

  4. Add custom Flag fields where useful

    On objects where users should flag records (Lead, Case, Account), add a custom checkbox Flag field. Build list views and Flows that use the flag.

  5. Train users on how to flag

    Show users how to access the flag option in feed posts, articles, and records. Without training, flagging happens rarely.

  6. Monitor the Moderation Queue

    Moderators check the queue regularly and act on flags. SLA expectations matter: stale flags create the impression that flagging is ignored.

Key options
Experience Cloud moderationremember

Built-in community flagging for feed posts, comments, files.

Knowledge article flagremember

Flag as Inappropriate or Flag for Review on Knowledge articles.

Custom Flag fieldsremember

Admin-defined checkbox fields used to mark records for attention.

Moderation Rulesremember

Automated flagging based on content criteria (profanity, URLs, user age).

Gotchas
  • Flags do not block content. They surface it for human review. For automatic blocking, use Moderation Rules with Block instead of Flag.
  • Moderation Queue requires active monitoring. Without an assigned moderator and an SLA, flags accumulate without action; the feature becomes performative.
  • NetworkActivityAudit retention is limited. Compliance use cases may need data archival before the platform purges records.
  • Custom Flag fields are just fields. They do not trigger any automation unless you build it; the field name suggests action but does not enforce it.

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