Welcome to one of the most interesting features in Tiki: the forums system, the concepts are very simple:
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The forums menu in the application menu displays 2 links, one to the forum listing and another to the forum rankings. If you are admin you will be able to configure forums from the admin-forums screen in the administration menu. Let s go to the admin forums screen to create a forum:
The admin forums screen show a list of available forums and a form to create/edit a new forum, the form has the following format:
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The fields are described next:
| Name | The forum name as will be displayed in the forum listing | |
| Description | A description for the forum | |
| Prevent flooding | If enabled then the users won t be able to post a message after another message without waiting at least the indicated amount of time. This can be used to prevent a user from flooding the forum with messages. | |
| Topics per page | The number of topics that will be displayed in each page when listing the forum topics. | |
| Moderator | A user can be set as the forum moderator, when a user is the moderator he will be granted all the permissions for this forum. | |
| Default ordering for topics | How will be the topics orderded in the list of forum topics by default. Options are: Date: Creation date of the topic ; Replies: Number of replies (messages) the topic has; Reads: Number of times the topic has been read.; Last post: Date of the last post in the topic. (the last message posted); Title: topic title. | |
| Default ordering for messages (threads) | How will be the messages for a topic ordered by default: Date: message date; Title: message title; Score: Message score | |
| Send this forum posts to this email | You can configure an email address that will receive all the topics and messages posted to the forum | |
| Prune unreplied messages after | If enabled topics that don t have a reply will be automatically after the amount of time indicated Prune old messages after If enabled topics and messages will be automatically removed when they are older that the indicated amount of time. | |
| Section | Forums can be organized into sections, you can assign an existing section to a forum, create a new section or don't use a section. When listing forums they will be grouped by section. | |
Once a forum is created you can see it displayed in the listing:
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The edit link can be used to edit the forum while the perms link can be used to set-up individual permissions for the forum.
As a user you can enter the forums section clicking the forums link in the application menu.
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You can order the forum listing as you want and you can click on the forum name to enter the forum.
When you enter to a forum a list of topics will be displayed:
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Topics are listed using the default ordering for topics set for the forum, as a user you can order the topics by any of the fields in the topic listing. The type is used to classify topics (more on this later). When the type icon is shown reddish (as in this case) the topic is new for the user. If you have the permission to post a topic you will see a link to display/hide the form to post a new topic. This is the form when displa yed:
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You will have to enter the title for the topic, the type and the comment (the topic text), you can use some smileys shown at the right if you want. The topic-type that you can set will be normal unless you are an admin for this forum, in which case you can use any type. Topics type are described next:
| Type | Icon | Description |
| Normal | A normal topic | |
| Hot | A hot topic, a topic that is very important or polemical or anything you consider hot | |
| Announce | An announcement | |
| Sticky | A sticky topic will be displayed on top of the list of topics regardless of the ordering selected for topics. | |
| Locked | A locked topic is a topic where users can t post messages, admins can lock a topic by changing the type of any topic to locked |
If you click on the topic name for any topic a list of topic messages will be displayed:
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From this screen you can post new messages (if you have the permission), edit or remove messages (again if you have the permission) and quote a message if you want. The form to post a message for a topic is almost indentical to the form used to post a new topic.
The toolbar can be used to sort messages by date, score or title, limit the minimum score for a message to be displayed (threshold) or find messages containing some word.
From the admin forums screen you can click on the perms link to set up individual permissions for a forum.
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Setting individual permissions can be used to have private forums, to control who can post new topics in some special forums, to give admin privileges to a group of user only for some forums, etc. As usual when individual permissions are set for a forum global permissions don t apply.
The forum rankings screen can be used to display rankings for the forums.
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From the admin groups screen you can set up the global permissions for the forums:
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