Admin Forums page has 2 parts. It is accessible from main Menu as a sublink from Forums or by clicking adm in List forums.
Create/edit forum
On a new Tiki you must first create your forum(s) in this first part. After creation the forum will appear in the second part Forums so you can edit them. Here's a picture of this first part followed by a description of each setting you'll find.
Field | Description |
Name | The forum name as will be displayed in the forum listing |
Description | A description of the forum |
Prevent flooding | If enabled then the users won’t be able to post consecutive messages 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. |
Password protected | Determines if a password is needed to post messages. Note that this is not fully implemented yet and the two options with protection are currently equivalent. |
Forum password | Password for the forum if it is set to be password-protected |
Default ordering for topics | How the topics will be ordered in the list of forum topics by default. Some options can be ascending or descending. Options are: |
Date | Creation date of the topic |
Score | Topic's score |
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's title |
Default ordering for messages (threads) | How will be the messages for a topic ordered by default: |
Date | Message's date |
Score | Message's score |
Title | Message's title |
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. This uses your Web server's outgoing mail settings. The resulting e-mails are not in an appropriate format for sending to the forum's inbound e-mail. |
Forward messages to this forum to this e-mail address | See EmailToForumGatewaying. |
Originating e-mail address for mails from this forum | See EmailToForumGatewaying. |
Add messages from this email to the forum | See EmailToForumGatewaying. |
Prune unreplied messages after | If enabled topics that don’t have a reply will be automatically removed 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. |
Forums
Once a forum is created it displays in Forums :
<img src="http://tiki.org/show_image.php?id=129" />
The edit link <img src="http://tiki.org//show_image.php?id=160" /> can be used to configure forum's settings common to all users. Clicking it will bring the forum's data in Edit this forum part (at top). The permissions link <img src="http://tiki.org//show_image.php?id=161" /> can be used to set-up groups' permissions for the forum. <img src="http://tiki.org//show_image.php?id=162" /> deletes forum.
Other pages about forums
- Forum
- ForumDoc
- ForumDev
- ForumSettings
- EmailToForumGatewaying