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6c. How are forums created in Genboree Commons?

Updated by roth, matt over 10 years ago.

Category: Genboree Commons Difficluty: Difficluty5
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Answer

The administrator of a project defines a list of forums in the Project Settings (authors and subscribers can not create forums). The forums allow users from a project to communicate with each others.

Each project can have one or more discussion forums. Each forum has the following properties:
  • Name: The text you want to be displayed to identify the discussion forum. This field is required.
  • Description: A short description to describe the subject of the specific forum. This field is required.

To add a topic in a given forum, click on the forum name, then click on New Conversation. You can now enter a subject, a body and attach files to your message.

Two options are available:
  • sticky: if checked, the topic will stay displayed at the top of topic list, in bold
  • locked: if checked, users can not add replies to the message