13 July 2023

How to create and manage Collections

This article is for Admins or Recognized Members of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow.

In this article, we'll review everything you need to know to get started with Collections as an Admin or Recognized Member of your Collective.

It's important to remember that while Admins must create new collections, you'll want to look to Members of your Collective to help you curate and contribute additional, relevant content to collections.

How different user roles interact with Collections

This chart outlines how different user roles/types are able to interact with Collections:

Permissions	Admins	Recognized Members	Members	Users (non-members)
Create collections	Yes	No	No	No
Delete collections	Yes	Yes	No	No
Edit collections	Yes	Yes	No	No
Engage with collection (add content, vote, comment, share or follow)	Yes	Yes	Yes	They can view, vote, share and comment. They cannot add content to a collection.
Flag collections	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pin collection	Yes	No	No	No
View collections	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

How to create a collection

Reminder! Only Admins of a collective can create a new collection.

If you are an Admin, you will see a ‘Create collection’ button at the top right side of the Collections tab.

On the Create page, you will need to add:

Collection title: Minimum of 15 characters; maximum of 150
Description: Minimum of 15 characters; maximum of 600
Tags: At least one tag from your Collective is required
Posts: These are the different content items to be grouped in this collection: either questions and answers or articles.

Note: To make it easier to add posts (questions and answers), you can search by title or paste the URL.