Forum Admin
Management
Forum Permissions
Pruning
See also:
Forum Admin
General Admin
Group Admin
Styles Admin
User Admin
Management
The Forum Management panel is where most forum
configuration is done. Here you will control the
organization of forums and categories.
Configuration of a forum's name, description,
and auto-prune settings is also handled here.
Adding Forums
To create a new forum, look to the bottom of
the category you want your new forum to be in.
Enter the desired forum name in the text box at the
bottom, and click Create New Forum. You will be taken
to the General Forum Settings panel.
(For more information on this panel, see "Editing Forums")
Editing Forums
To edit a forum, look in that forum's row and click
Edit.
You will be taken to the General Forum Settings panel.
Here you may adjust the following settings:
Forum Name - This is the name of the forum. (e.g. General Chat, Movie Reviews, Support, etc.)
Description - Describes your forum. This is the smaller text that appears under each forum name on the Forum Index.
Category - A dropdown list box that will allow you to choose what category a forum is contained in.
Forum Status - A dropdown list box that will allow you to lock or unlock a forum.
A locked forum may not be posted to except by moderators and administrators.
Auto-Pruning - Here you can enable/disable auto-pruning. (For more information, see "Auto-Prune")
Moving Forums
A forum's location can be described in two ways.
A forum is in a category, and has a location relative to other
forums in that category.
To change the category that a forum is in, use the General Forum Settings panel,
as described in "Editing Forums".
To change a forum's position relative to other forums in its category,
use the Move Up and Move Down links in the
Forum Administration panel.
Move Up will swap the position of the desired forum with the forum above it.
Move Down will swap the position of the desired forum with the forum below it.
Move Up has no effect on the top forum in a category, and, likewise,
Move Down has no effect on the bottom forum.
Resync
Some information in the database is contained it multiple tables.
This makes the board run faster by reducing the number of
database queries on some pages. Sometimes the information in different
tables of the database gets out of sync.
This usually is caused by a connection problem which interrupts updating
of the database.
When this happens, your forum may start behaving in a strange way.
Links to topics or posts that don't exist are common symptoms of this problem.
If you are having this problem, you can fix it by clicking Resync
in the General Forum Settings Panel.
This will recalculate the forum information based on the actual posts that exist.
This operation has no harmful effect on the forums,
just generates a small amount of overhead while you are doing it.
This is a good thing to try if you are not sure what is causing a problem on your board.
Auto-prune
Auto-prune is a feature that will cause a forum to prune itself.
To enable auto-prune, make sure the checkbox is checked.
You may set the age of posts to prune.
All posts older than the set age will be pruned.
You may also set the frequency of pruning.
For example, you could have the forums prune themselves once a day,
or once every seven days.
Adding Categories
To add a new category, look at the bottom of the forum/category listing. Enter the desired category name into the text box and click
Create New Category.
Editing Categories
By clicking on the Edit link next to a category name,
you can edit the name of the category.
Simply edit the name in the textbox and click the Update button to change the name
of the category.
Moving Categories
To move a category, click Move Up or Move Down in the
category's row. Move Up will swap the position of the desired
category and the category above it. Move Down will swap the position
of the desired category and the category below it.
Move Up has no effect on the top category, likewise Move Down has
no effect on the bottom category.
Forum Permissions
In this panel you can control the forum permissions.
You can restrict the behavior of different types of users on a per-forum basis.
Here you can control who can read and post in a forum.
You can also control who can make special posts, like Sticky topics or announcements.
To edit a forum's permissions, select the forum in the dropdown box and click Look Up Forum.
Setting Simple Permissions
There are seven simple permission levels in phpBB 2.0.0.
For more information, see "Permission Levels" and "Permission Types". Here is a description of the behaviors allowed by each of the simple settings.
Public - Anonymous users can read and post.
Registered Users can additionally edit their posts, and create and vote in polls.
Moderators and administrators can make stickies and announcements.
Registered - Anonymous users can read the forum.
Registered Users can additionally post, reply, edit their posts,
and create and vote in polls. Moderators and administrators can make
stickies and announcements.
Registered [Hidden] - Anonymous users may only register.
Registered Users can read, post, edit their posts, and create and vote in polls.
Moderators and administrators can make stickies and announcements.
Private - Non-Private users may only see the forum.
Private Users can read, post, reply, edit their posts,
and create and vote in polls. Moderators and administrators
can make stickies and announcements.
Private [Hidden] - Only Private Users may see the forum.
Private Users can read, post, reply, edit their posts, and create and vote in polls.
Moderators and administrators can make stickies and announcements.
Moderators - Anonymous and Normal users can only see the forum.
Moderators and administrators can read, post, reply, edit their posts,
create polls, vote in polls, and make stickies and announcements.
Moderators [Hidden] - Normal users cannot see the forum.
Moderators and administrators can read, post, reply, edit their posts,
create polls, vote in polls, and make stickies and announcements.
This table shows the equivalent Advanced Permissions for each Simple Permissions setting.
Setting Advanced Permissions
Advanced Permissions allow you to precisely control all behaviors in a forum.
To set advance permissions for your forum, click Advanced Mode after choosing the
forum to edit. You are presented with a table that has each permission type
with a dropdown box underneath it. You may set each of these permissions to any
level you like by using the dropdown boxes.
For more information on permission types and levels, see "Permission Types" and "Permission Levels".
Permission Types
There are ten Permission Types.
Each of these types refers to a specific behavior within a forum.
This is the behavior that each of these permissions grants:
View - The user may see the forum on the forum index page.
Read - The user may view topics in a forum, and read posts in those topics.
Post - The user may post new topics in the forum.
Reply - The user may post replies to existing topics in the forum.
Edit - The user may edit his/her own posts in the forum.
It is not recommended that this be set to "ALL",
because that will allow any anonymous post to be edited by any anonymous user.
Delete - The user may delete his/her own posts in the forum.
A post can only be deleted by a non-moderator if it has not been replied to.
It is not recommended that this be set to "ALL",
because that will allow any anonymous post to be deleted by any anonymous user.
Sticky - The user may make sticky Topics (for more information, see "Sticky Topics").
Vote - The user may vote in Polls (for more information, see "Polls").
It is not recommended that this be set to "ALL", because that will allow
an anonymous user to vote more than once.
Poll create - The user may create Polls (for more information, see "Polls").
Permission Levels
There are five permission levels.
A user may be a member of more than one permission level.
To be in each of the permission levels:
ALL - Every user in the board is in this permission level.
This level is used particularly to grant permissions to users who are
not registered and/or logged in.
REG - A user is in this permission level if he/she is both
registered at the board, and is currently logged in.
PRIVATE - There are two parts to being a private member of a forum.
In the forum permissions, there must be at least one permission type set to
the permission level PRIVATE.
Additionally, in the User Permissions or Group Permissions panel,
the user or group must be "Allowed Access" to the private forum
(or have permission types set to "ON" in advanced mode). For more information, see "Group Admin".
MOD - Someone is in this permission level if they are a moderator of the forum.
ADMIN - Board administrators (and no one else) are in this permission level.
Pruning
To prune a forum, select it (or "All Forums")
from the dropdown box and click Look up Forum.
Specify a number of days in the text field.
All posts with no replies to them in the range specified will be removed.
Pruning is typically done to remove old unneeded posts and to save space.
If you like, you can set a forum to prune itself automatically.
For more information, see "Editing Forums".
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