Forum
Forum is the page type to provide your visitors with an opportunity to discuss various topics on your Web site. Users can start discussions on a given topic, as well as write responses to the various topics. Your visitors can also subscribe to the posts as an RSS feed.
You can restrict who can read the forum and who is permitted to submit topics or posts. Visitors with permission to do so can report suspicious content using a special function. Such entries are marked as spam in the Administration area. You can then block these posts from being displayed.
You can create new topics in the page preview.
Part of the general settings for the site map match the general settings for all pages. See
General .
For the Layout of the forums on the web site you can select between a list view and a tree view.
Topics
The table lists all the topics in this forum. You can also put in new topics here.
Proceed as described in Adding records.
If you would like to read more about the topic, click the ID. See
Topics – Details.
Topics – Details
In the details of a topic, you can rename it and set whether more posts can be made about this topic.
The table lists all the posts for the topic. As well as the user name, the IP address of the computer from which the post was submitted is also displayed. If visitors report that a post is suspected of being spam, the post is marked with a warning icon. In case the SPAM report is invalid, you can remove it. To do so, use the batch command Delete Suspected spam marker.
You can also create your own posts about the topic here. Proceed in this as described in
Adding records.