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For developers: Delete forums

To delete a forum, you must perform the following:

  1. Get an instance of the manager.
    Get an instance of the ForumsManager object.
  2. Get the specified forum.
    Get an instance of the forum. For more information, readFor developers: Query forums.
  3. Mark the forum for deletion.
    To mark the forum to be deleted, call the DeleteForum method of the manager and pass the forum as argument.
  4. Save the changes.
    To delete the group, save the changes to the manager.

NOTE: To delete multiple forums, query them and execute the code below for each forum.

NOTE: If you try to delete a forum that has threads in it, the threads will get also deleted. If you do not want them to be deleted, you can move the threads to another forum. For more information, see For developers: Move forum threads.

NOTE: When deleting the forum, the attachments library associated with the forum will also get deleted together with the attachments in it. For more information about the forum libraries, see the For developers: Forums topic.

Here is a code example:

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