Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance

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Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance

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

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Creating a Category

Creating a Category Important: Once your category has been created, it must have at least one forum inside to appear on your board. Otherwise it will only be displayed in the admin panel, but not on your forum! Administration Panel => General => 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

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Creating a Forum

Creating a Forum Administration Panel => General => 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

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Creating a Sub-Forum

Creating a Sub-Forum Administration Panel => General => 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

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Table Category :: Forum :: Sub-Forum

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

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Changing the Display of your Board

Changing the Display of your Board It is possible to display your Categories, Forums and Sub-forums in different ways. Administration Panel >> Display >> Homepage >> Structure & Hierarchy Index Packing - None: - Medium: - Full: -------------------------- Split categories on index :: Splits the categories into different tables. 1 category per table -------------------------- Sub-level links on index :: - No - Yes - With Icons --------------------------- 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

This tutorial was written by the Forumotion Team.