>>> FORUM AND CHAT SECTION:


The forum section let you to create and manage one or more discussion forums in your website, you can organize your forums by categories. You can create public or private forums, you can give a moderator to forums (you can choose a moderator from registered users) and you can choose the discussions expiration time. To activate a forum in your website you must create before a "Forum" page from pages section, after you must link it to a menu bar item (see menu bar section).


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If you click on Add new forum category you can create a forums category. To create a forum category you must insert the category name, description, category language and an icon. You can also delete and modify a forums category (if you delete a forum category, all the forums and discussions under it will be lost).

If you click on Create a forum, will appear the form in the picture 1, to create a new forum you must insert in the form a short forum title, the forum topic, you must select the forum language, the moderator (from registered users or the website administrator), the discussions and replies expiration time (number of days or unlimited) and the forum type (visibility) when you can choose between: Public forum when both, anonymous visitors and registered users, can write and read discussions and replies; Public forum when anonymous visitors can only read discussions and replies, and registered users can write and read discussions and replies; Private forum when only registered users can write and read discussions and replies.
You can also choose who have the permission that lets to write new discussions in the forum (you can choose between: visitors, users, users that are in the same group of moderator and moderator).
When you have filled all the fields, you can click on "Insert" to create the new forum.

In a forum, the administrator has the same permissions of a moderator.

In the bottom of this section (picture 1) will appear the forums list, is possible to enable/disable, modify and delete a forum by click on [ENABLE/DISABLE FORUM], [EDIT] or [DELETE]. When you delete a forum all the discussions and the replies under the forum will be also deleted without any confirmation.



The chat section let you to create and manage one or more realtime chatrooms in your website. You can create public or private chatrooms. To activate a chatroom in your website you must create before a "Chat" page from pages section, after you must link it to a menu bar item (see menu bar section).


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If you click on Add chatroom, will appear the form in the picture 2, to create a new chatroom you must insert in the form: the chatroom name, a description of the topic for the chatroom, the language and the chatroom visibility ("public" for all visitors or "private" only for registered users). You can also enable or disable a chatroom (a disabled chatroom will not be showed in the chat page). When you have filled all the fields, you can click on "Insert" to create the new chatroom.

In the bottom of this section (picture 2) will appear the chatrooms list, is possible to modify and delete a chatroom by click on [EDIT] or [DELETE].