Forums User | |
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Feature Overview | |
Welcome to one of the most interesting features in Tiki: the forums system, the concepts are very simple:
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Introduction | ||||||||||||||||||
The forums menu in the application menu displays 2 links, one to the forum listing and another to the forum rankings.
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:
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. |
Forum Rankings | |
The forum rankings screen can be used to display rankings for the forums.
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How to get the forum messages by email ? | |
There are five ways to monitor messages: |
1.1.1. Monitor all messages from the forum | |
Like it usually works in email lists: copies are received from the initial messages (new topics) from all the new discussion threads, as well as from all their answers.
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1.1.2. Monitor only the initial message from all the new discussion threads from this forum. | |
You need to click in the eye icon on the left when looking at the topics list of a forum. For instance: (this way, you don't automatically get by email the answers from the new discussion threads, if we don't subscribe to them; see next step) |
1.1.3. Monitor the answers to specific discussion threads. | |
You need to click on a specific discussion thread in a forum, and click on the eye icon on the right of the initial message from that discussion thread. For instance:
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1.1.4. Monitor the forum by "group watch" | |
An admin of the site can set up your tiki to send messages to selected groups of users when the are some changes in objects of the tiki site, such a forum. Once Group watch is enabled tiki wide by an admin, a few new icons will show up to the right of the previous ones, allowing the admin to set which groups have to received emails:
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1.1.5. Monitor the forum by categories | |
Additionally, in Tiki 2.0 you can watch a categorized forum through watching the category that it belongs to. |
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