Create a case from a discussion

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title: Create a case from a discussion
description: In order to engage your internal experts to reply to discussion threads, you can create cases directly from community questions.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/customer-service-management/communities/case-management-integration.html
release: brazil
product: Communities
classification: communities
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 3
breadcrumb: [Configuring communities, Communities, Customer Service Management]
---

# Create a case from a discussion

In order to engage your internal experts to reply to discussion threads, you can create cases directly from community questions.

**Important:**

Starting with the Brazil release, Communities is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer installed on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the [Deprecation Process \[KB0867184\]](https://support.servicenow.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0867184) article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.

Creating cases from community questions requires activation of the Case Management Core \(com.sn\_customerservice\) plugin.

This feature is available for questions that have been posted by community users who are also contacts or consumers in the Customer Service Management application. Questions can be either answered or unanswered.

**Note:** Cases can be created only from questions.

Two sets of users can create cases from questions:

-   Customer service agents, consumer service agents, and customer service managers.
-   Users with the sn\_customerservice.proxy\_case\_creator role. Community administrators and community moderators inherit this role.

-   **[Administer create case from discussion](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/customer-service-management/communities/case-mgmt-integration-administer.md)**  
Configure parameters for the case generated from the community discussion so that it can be routed accordingly.

**Parent Topic:**[Configuring communities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/customer-service-management/communities/configure-communities.md)

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