Forum

The purpose of the forum is 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.
You can restrict who can read the forum and who is permitted to submit topics or posts. Visitors 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. The following parameters are configured in the datasheet view.
General
The general settings are edited as described in General, above. Save your entries by clicking Save.
Topics
The table lists all the topics in this forum.
Click the ID to display the details of the topic. See also Topics – Details, below.
You can sort the table by column. For more details, see Sorting using column headings, above.
To create a new post, proceed as described in Adding records, above.
To delete a post, follow the steps described in Deleting entries, above.
Batch processing commands are available to manage the table entries. For an introduction to this, see Batch Processes in Tables, above. The following specialised actions can be performed:
Table 97: Specialised batch processing commands for forum topics

Command
Comment
Delete Suspected spam marker
The marker that identifies a post or topic as being spam is deleted.

Layout
The table lists all the options that govern the way that forum topic and post entries can be displayed on the Web site. You can decide whether the entries are displayed in a list form or as a tree. Select an option and save your entries by clicking Save.
For basic information on displaying using the datasheet view, see Layout, above.