Forum How To

How to do common things in the forum such as create new discussion groups, create new categories within a discussion group, delete groups and categories, and edit forum settings. Be responsible with your admin status. If you want to delete something, make sure to check with the team first.

Create New Discussion Group

The discussion groups are meant to keep the forum organized into grouped discussion areas that may have several distinct categories.

  1. go to the Site Management page
  2. under the manage site menu, click on Forum & discussion
  3. now click on Structure
  4. observe that you can now see all the groups on the right portion of the screen
  5. at the bottom of all the listed groups, click on create a new group
  6. input a group name
  7. input a group description - don't skip this part if you can help it
  8. click on save
  9. observe that your new group is now available

Create New Category

The categories help to keep group discussions organized into smaller discussions.

  1. go to the Site Management page
  2. under the manage site menu, click on Forum & discussion
  3. now click on Structure
  4. observe that you can now see all the groups on the right portion of the screen
  5. find the group you want to add a category to
  6. under the group description, click on add category
  7. input category name
  8. input category description - don't skip this part if you can help it
  9. select a maximum nesting value or just use the default
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