Please take care to read the full tutorial.

- CREATE A CATEGORY
- CREATE A FORUM
- CREATE A SUB-FORUM

- TABLE CATEGORY :: FORUM :: SUB-FORUM

- CHANGING THE DISPLAY OF YOUR BOARD

- HOW TO DELETE THEM

Creating a Category

Important: Once your category has been created, it must have at least one forum inside to appear on your board.



Administration Panel => Forum => Categories and forums



Right from your board's title, click on the + icon (Add a link)



Choose the kind of forum you want > choose Category
Category Name: Write the title your category will have
Description (optional): You can add a descripton of your Category.
Take notice that this description will not appear for a normal category, but will appear on a Category attached to another
Attached to: Leave the name of your board in this list
Position this forum after: Select here the positon your Category will have when displayed on your board in correlation with previous existing Categories or forums.



Finally, click on Save

Creating a Forum



Administration Panel => Forum => Categories and forums



Right from the title of your category, click on the + icon (Add a link)



Choose the kind of forum you want > choose Forum
Forum Name: Write the title your forum will have
Description (optional): You can add a descripton of your Forum.
Attached to: leave the name of your category
Position this forum after: Select here the positon your Forum will have when displayed on your board in correlation with previous existing forums.



Finally, click on Save

Notice: You also have access to the Autopruning and Permissions settings here, which will be dealt within the appropriate tutorials

Creating a Sub-Forum



Administration Panel => Forum => Categories & Forums



Right from the title of a forum, click on the + icon (Add a link)



Choose the kind of forum you want > choose Forum
Note: A sub-forum is merely a forum within a forum
Forum Name: Write the title your forum will have
Description (optional): You can add a descripton of your Forum.
Attached to: leave the name of the forum
Position this forum after: Select here the positon your Forum will have when displayed on your board in correlation with previous existing forums.



Finally, click on Save

Note: You also have access to the Autopruning and Permissions settings here, which will be dealt within the appropriate tutorials

Table Category :: Forum :: Sub-Forum



1.: This line represents your board

2.: This line represents a category

3.: This line represents a forum

4.: This line represents a sub-forum

Changing the Display of your Board

It is possible to display your Categories, Forums and Sub-forums in different ways.

Administration Panel => General Admin => Homepage => Hierachy



Index Packing

- None:



- Medium:



- Full:



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Split categories on index ::
Splits the categories into different tables. 1 category per table



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Sub-level links on index ::

- No



- Yes



- With Icons



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Display viewonline information box on index ::



Never: It will not be displayed
On root index only: It will be displayed only on your index page
Always: It will be displayed on your index page as well as in your Categories

How To Delete

To delete a Category, forum or Sub-forum:
Admin Panel => Forum => Categories & Forums

Next to the one you wish to delete, press the delete icon () and confirm after

You will delete all forums/sub-forums within unless they are moved before hand or during the confirmation step

Written by Eximma
Translated by Caihlem
Updated by Katt