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Forums

Forums

Forums are online discussions related to specific activities, issues and topics. Use forums to facilitate interaction and collaboration between members regardless of geographic location.

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Members can gather and discuss relevant topics, pose questions to one another or share expertise - all by using an email client, web browser or smartphone device.

Key Features

  • Access Control - set permission levels to prevent unauthorized access to a forum; assign permissions to a forum, topic or reply; permissions set by user, role or group (none, read only or comments).
  • Attachments - attach documents, images and files to a forum topic
  • Authoring Topics - add topics to a forum using a basic or advanced WYSIWYG editor; add a title, summary and body text; insert attachments, images, multimedia and links into a topic
  • Broadcast - broadcast a new forum topic or thread to members 
  • Descriptions - add/edit text describing the forum (fully indexed for community search)
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  • Email Enabled - create or respond to forum posts via email or your mobile device; send a link to friends, colleagues and peers using your favorite email application
  • Notifications - subscribe to any forum or topic and receive email updates (instantly, daily, weekly or monthly) when new posts are added; members are automatically subscribed to receive instant notification when an email enabled forum is updated
  • Rating - rate forum topics by users identifying they have the same question, issue, problem or discussion.
  • Rename - change the name of the forum application (ex. Discussions)
  • RSS - add a forum channel to your RSS or Atom feed reader
  • Social Sharing - promote or increase the awareness of a forum on the public internet by linking it directly on social networking sites such as Digg, Twitter, Facebook and more
  • Tagging - tag forum articles; search for similar topics or related content  using tag clouds
  • Voting - members can vote on forum topics - thumbs up, thumbs down (Coming Soon!)
  • Widgets - configure and dynamically display forum contents on any area of the community
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