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mxBoard Manual |
Here you can give your forum a name. |
Here you set the default-language of your forum. |
Here you set the default theme of your forum. If you choose "default",
forum will use colors of the pragmaMx theme. Please note: The default-theme is handled by the "defaulttheme.php" and have nothing to do with the "default"-forumtheme you can find in the admin menu under themes. This "default"-theme is only a "space holder" so that you can choose a "default"-theme. |
If active, a short version of the subject from the last modified or generated thread will be shown as forums-lastpost. The next setting also belong to this. |
How many chars of the subject should be shown in the forums-view? |
If you activate this option, you can find in the administrator menu under
"forums" a point that allows you to link a forum into another one. Linked forums are
displayed with an animated link-picture. By using this function you increase total process
time of your forum. How much this is depends on your system. Best is to make a test once
with this option enbabled, second time with the option disabled. It is normal that linked forums are displayed after the "normal" subforums at the end of the page. If you set e.g. 25 forums to be displayed on one page, then there will be ALSO 25 linked forums been displayed on this page (if so many forums are linked into this forum), so that the total number then is 50! |
Whis this option team-members have the possibility to link threads to
another forum so that they are accessible from more than one forum. With activating this
option total prozessing time of your forum will increase. How much this is depends on your
system. Please have a look onto the total prozessing time at the bottom of the pages to
find it out for you. It is normal that linked threads are displayed after the "normal" threads at the end of the page. If you set e.g. 25 threads to be displayed on one page, then there will be ALSO 25 linked threads been displayed on this page (if so many threads are linked into this forum), so that the total number then is 50! |
How many Posts (answers) will per default be displayed on one page. Every user can change this value for itself in its profile settings. |
How many threads (contributions, Threads) will per default be displayed on one page. Every user can change this value for itself in its profile settings. |
How many members should be displayed on one "memberlist"-page |
Here you adjust how many answers to a contribution are required so that this contribution gets the status "Hot Topic". |
Here is set the time in seconds before a user can transmit its next contribution. This makes it more difficult to "spam" the forum, e.g. with the reload-function of the browser. |
You hereby can deactivate the forum. The forum is then if e.g. maintenance work is executed only accessible for administrators. Normal users are shown the text which is written in the text field below (if the forum is deactivated). |
If this function is activated, on the mainpage of the forum (and the
center block) is show which members are online in the forum. |
This option is only available if "Who's online in index" is active This advanced option shows a kind of "tracking list" accessible over a link in the header of the forum. On this list you can see who is in which forum online and how long. |
If this option is activated, only regged users of the pragmaMx system can access the forum. |
If you activate this, on the index-page of the forum no forums will be shown, only a list of you different categories. |
If this is active, user can only see forums to which they have access. |
User will see sorting-options at the bottom of the forumdisplay-page if
active. |
When you activate this, you will get a button at the bottom of you pages "board rules". When you click on it a popup-window will open showing the board rules from the textfield below. |
If option is on, users are allowed to seach into the forums threads and
posts. |
If active, a link in the header will show all messages of the day. You can adjust the day-range below |
Here you set the range of days which is shown in the "Messages of the day"-page |
If active, FAQ-link is shown in the header. Here users can get more information about BB-rules and member-status. |
If active, a link is shown in the header of the forum (and the center-block) which displays a forum member list |
Only available, if "Member List Status" is active If this option is turned off, no anonymous user can access the member list |
If active, users can access advanced statistics of your forum. |
How many lines of each categorie should be shown in the statistics. |
Shows short-stats on the mainpage of the forum. |
Shows a Quick-Jumper at the bottom of each page. With this, you can easily
jump between the forums. It is actuallized every time you change something in the
"forums"-option of the administrator menu. |
Only available, if "Display Navigation Jumper" is active. What does dynamic means? This jumper only contains the forums as jump-target, the user is allow to access. The "static" jumper contains all forums of the forum, also staff and private once. |
If active, users can choose an icon for their threads and
posts. |
Here you set how many lines and rows of Smilies are displayed when writing
a thread or a post. All other Smilies will be accessible over the "more smilies
...."-option. |
If this is active, user avatars will be show in the "threadview" |
If active, all users can set the priority of a thread. Otherwise only
team-members can set the priority of a thread. HINT: if there are now different colors shown when changing the priority of a thread, the "style.css" of you pragmaMx system will filter it out. So you have to modify the "style.css" of the system, use another theme or give the forum it's own "style.css"-file. |
With this option member have the possibility to send private messages to
the author of a thread or post by using the "u2u"-button. |
If this is active, users can report new posts to the author of a thread
and the moderator of the forum. |
Shows total processing time at the bottom of the pages. |
Here you can choose if an administrator is handled as a normal user with the stars or if administrators should allways have three stars more than the highest user-rank. |
Here you set the "from"-address for emails delivered by the forum |
This option activates the notify-service for administrators. |
Here you can enable or disable notify-service for different kind of
changes in the forum. Each administrator has to set in his profile too: if he wants to be
notified and in which cases he or she would like to be notified. These settings here are
global that means, if they are switched off, administrators can't use the disabled
notify-cases. This might help you to reduce your traffic. |
This option activates the notify-service for moderators. |
Here you can enable or disable notify-service for different kind of
changes in the forum. Each moderator has to set in his profile too: if he wants to be
notified and in which cases he or she would like to be notified. These settings here are
global that means, if they are switched off, moderators can't use the disabled
notify-cases. This might help you to reduce your traffic. |
With this settings you define the size of the compose-"message box" |
If switched on, BB-Code is allowed in the user signature |
If switched on, HTML-Code is allowed in the users signature |
Here you can define a default size of picture signatures |
If the default time-setting in the forum is 24-hours or 12-hours. Each user can change this in his profile. |
Define default date format for the forum. Each user can change this in his profile. |
If this is active, one time is used for the whole forum. Users are not allowed to use their own timezone. |
Here you set the differenz between GMT-timezone and your local timezone in hours |
Here you can specify the default-values for creating new forums. These settings will only take effekt for NEW FORUMS, not for old once! |
Here you can specify the default-values for creating new members. These settings will only take effekt for NEW MEMBERS, not for old once! Please handle these settings with care (e.g. the email-adress of you members)! |