Forums

You can establish and maintain discussion groups by using the Forums module.

The module is organized as follows:

• Forums page
  To open the Forums page, in the main menu click Content » Forums.
  The Forums page opens, displaying an expandable list of all created forums, grouped in forum groups, with the number of threads and posts in each forum, together with actions you can perform on them.
• Forum threads page
  When you click on a forum, you can view a list of all threads in that forum and the number of posts in each thread, together with actions you can perform on each thread.
• Forum posts page
  When you click a thread, the Posts page opens where you can view a list of all posts in this thread, together with actions you can perform on each post.

You can set permission for all forums and you can set individual permissions for each forum.

To change the permissions for all forums, on Forums page, click Permissions link in the right side of the page.
The Permissions for all forums page opens.
For more information about changing permissions, see Administration: Global and section permissions.

To change the permissions of a particular forum, click its Actions link and from the dropdown box, click Permissions.
For more information about setting individual permissions, see Administration: Permissions of individual items.

To display forums on your website, you must use a Forums widget, and then configure it.
For more information, see Forums widget.
For more information about adding widgets on your page, see Add widgets on pages and templates.

You can then choose the way forums, threads, and posts are displayed by changing the templates that the Forums widget uses.
For more information, see Create and edit widget templates.