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2008 Documentation
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Forums Administration Overview
To administer a forum, you must log on to Community Server with an administrative account. From the home page, navigate to Control Panel Dashboard > System Administration > Forum Administration.
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Adding Forum Groups
Forum groups allow you to arrange forums into ordered groups, both simplifying management on sites with many forums and allowing site visitors to browse forums by each group.
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Adding a Forum
You can create forums in the Create New Forum control panel applet. You should create a forum group before you create a new forum. If you do not create a forum group first, only the administrator’s forum group displays. Telligent recommends that you do not create forums in the administrator’s forum group.
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Setting Global Forums Properties
The Global Forum Settings allow you to configure the functionality, feature set and default behavior of your forums. You can override the global settings when you create a forum.
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Setting Global Forums User Permissions
Global permissions define permissions that are inherited by a forum when the forum is created. You can specify default permissions for each user role that has access to your forum.
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Setting Forum User Permissions
You can set user permissions for a specific forum that will override the global forum user permissions.
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Editing a Forum Group
You can edit an existing forum group's name or description.
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Editing Forum Properties
After you create a new forum, the Community Server user interface creates additional tabs on which you can specify additional forum properties.
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Deleting a Forum Group
To delete a forum group, you must first delete all forums associated with the group.
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Creating a Mailing List
To create a mailing list, you must have Enterprise Mail Gateway installed with Community Server; otherwise, the Mailing List tab will not display.
