An icon exists in the application to indicate whether a user, internal or external has read a discussion. This entity is used in the determination of whether the icon is displayed in the application as it stores the discussions read by a user.

Example

Linda Smith, James Smith and their three children Robert, Lisa and Susan are added to a Child Welfare social enterprise folder so that they can be managed together as a family. Incidents of Child Neglect have been recorded for Robert, Lisa and Susan. A discussion is automatically created on incident creation. A predefined multidisciplinary team is assigned to the social enterprise folder to allow them to assess and manage the families needs. This team consists of a police officer, a doctor and child services agency worker. The child services agency worker posts a new discussion to allow the team members to discuss the next steps for the family. The police officer logs in and views this discussion.

This entity stores the user name of the police officer and the discussion which means that an unread icon will not appear for this discussion the next time the police officer views this discussion.