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    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance

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    Post by Caihlem March 24th 2007, 2:44 pm

    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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    Post by Caihlem March 24th 2007, 2:45 pm

    Creating a Category


    Creating a Category

    Exclamation 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!

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Catego10

    Administration Panel => General => Categories and forums

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Captur92

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

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Captur93

    Arrow Choose the kind of forum you want > choose Category
    Arrow Category Name: Write the title your category will have
    Arrow 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
    Arrow Attached to: Leave the name of your board in this list
    Arrow 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.

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Captur94

    Finally, click on Save


    Caihlem
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    Post by Caihlem March 24th 2007, 2:45 pm

    Creating a Forum


    Creating a Forum

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Forum110

    Administration Panel => General => Categories and forums

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Captur95

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

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Captur98

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

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Captur97

    Finally, click on Save

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


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    Post by Caihlem March 24th 2007, 2:45 pm

    Creating a Sub-Forum


    Creating a Sub-Forum

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Sub-fo10

    Administration Panel => General => Categories & Forums

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Cat_an10

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

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

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Newsub13

    Finally, click on Save

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



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    Post by Caihlem March 24th 2007, 2:46 pm

    Table Category :: Forum :: Sub-Forum


    Table Category :: Forum :: Sub-Forum

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    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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    Post by Caihlem March 24th 2007, 2:46 pm

    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

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    Index Packing

    - None:

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Index210

    - Medium:

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Index310

    - Full:

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Index410

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

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Index510

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    Sub-level links on index ::

    - No

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Index610

    - Yes

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Index710

    - With Icons

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Index810

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    Display viewonline information box on index ::

    Categories and Forums - Creation and Appearance Index910

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


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