Forum Server Control

AllowAnonymousPost

Set to True to allow site visitors the option of
posting anonymously to the forum. When true, a Post Anonymous checkbox appears above the text editor used to create a post.

If a site visitor adds a check mark to this box, the word Anonymous appears where the Display Name normally appears. The default is True.

True - make the Post Anonymous checkbox available to site visitors when they create a post.

False - disable Post Anonymous checkbox.

Authenticated

Indicates if you are logged in to CMS Explorer and can use it to browse to Content, Collections, etc.

BoardID

The ID of the Discussion Board to display on this page if one is not defined in a query string parameter.

If you don’t know the ID, click Ellipses (), then sign in and select a Discussion Board.

CacheInterval

Sets the amount of time, in seconds, a server control’s data is cached. The default is 0 (zero).

For example, if you want to cache the data for five minutes, set this property to 300. See Also: Caching with Server Controls

CustomOrderBy

Provide a property’s Friendly Name defined in the Indexing Service to order search results by that property. For example, if you define DocAuthor, results will be sorted by the document’s author. Results can be ascending or descending based on OrderDirection. If you enter an invalid property, no search results are returned. If you specify both CustomOrderBy and OrderBy, the OrderBy property is ignored. The Friendly Name of a property can be found in Computer Management > Services and Applications > Indexing Service > Your Index > Properties > Friendly Name column.

DefaultObjectID

The Static ID of a community group.

DynamicForumParameter

Gets or sets the QueryString parameter to read a forum ID dynamically. The default is “f”. Note that a Forum resides one level below a Discussion Board.

DynamicGroupParameter

Gets or sets the QueryString parameter to read a group’s ID dynamically. The default is “g”.

DynamicObjectParameter

Dynamic Parameter for the community group id. Default is “id”.

DynamicParameter

Gets or sets the QueryString parameter to read a discussion board’s ID dynamically. Set to “None - Use Default” if you want to always display the default discussion board. Note that a Discussion Board is one level above a Forum.

boardid - reads a Threaded Discussion Board’s ID dynamically.

None - Use Default - use the default discussion board’s ID.

ID - reads a discussion board’s ID dynamically.

DynamicThreadParameter

Gets or sets the QueryString parameter to read an individual thread’s ID dynamically. The default is “t”. Note that a Thread resides two levels below a Discussion Board and one level below a Forum.

EditorCSS

Set the style sheet for the Editor when a site visitor creates or edits a post. By default, this property is blank. When a style sheet is not supplied, the style sheet defined in the Theme property is used.

EditorToolbar

Enter a comma separated list of items that you want to appear on the Editor’s toolbar. The default is StyleMenu,FontMenu,ParagraphMenu,
TextFormatMenu,LinkMenu,ClipBoardMenu,
SymbolsMenu,EmoticonSelect,WMV,Table

See Also: Adding and Removing Toolbar Items From the Editor.

EnableForumQuickSelect

If you set this property to true, a dropdown list of all forums appears below the Topic list.

The site visitor can click a forum and jump immediately to it.

EnableThreadRating

If you set this property to true, a ContentReview server control appears on any topic screen run by this server control. The site visitor can use the control to rate the topic thread.

An average rating for the thread appears next to each topic on the forum screen.

ExcludeList

Enter a comma-separated list of custom user properties to exclude from the Forum’s profile page. For example, to suppress the Subscriptions field value, enter subscriptions.

See Also: Custom User Properties and Suppressing User Information from the Forum Profile Display

FilterXslt

Enter the path to an XSLT file used to filter forum content, such as, HTML Attributes, Tags and unwanted words in a user’s forum post. This path can be relative or absolute. The user’s post is filter once he clicks Submit.

By default, this property points to <webroot>/<siteroot>
/Workarea/Xslt/ForumFilter.xslt

The above file removes hrefs with javascript:, vbscript: and “on” events in the link. You can modify this file or create a new one.

Warning! If you want to edit this file, it is strongly recommended that you make a copy, change its name and move it outside of your Web site’s Workarea folder. If you make changes to this file and do not move it out of the Workarea folder, this file and the changes will be lost when you upgrade.

For additional sample code used to create a filter XSLT, see the following KB article:

http://dev.ektron.com/kb_article.aspx?id=485

Hide

Select False to display this server control on the page. Select True to suppress it.

HideUserProfile

Set to True to suppress user profiles. The default is True.

True - hides user profiles from non-administrator users.

False - displays user profiles from non-administrator users. However, an administrator can view a profile regardless of how this property is set.

On the other hand, if the Private Profile is set to Private for any user, his profile information is not visible, regardless of this setting. If Private Profile is set to Colleagues, only colleagues can see profile information.

When the profile is visible, only properties and their values not listed in the ExcludeList property (above) appear.

For more information, see Suppressing User Information from the Forum Profile Display.

JavascriptEditorHeight

Set the height in pixels for the eWebEdit400 content designer. The default is 400. The minimum height is 300.

JavascriptEditorHTMLMode

Note: As of version 7.6, the JavaScript editor has been removed from Ektron CMS400.NET. This property has been deprecated.

Set to True to allow users to edit their posts and replies in HTML. The default is False.

JavascriptEditorToolbar

Note: As of version 7.6, the JavaScript editor has been removed from Ektron CMS400.NET. This property has been deprecated.

Decide which buttons are available in the JavaScript Editor.

JavascriptEditorWidth

Set the width in pixels for the eWebEdit400 content designer. The default is 625. The minimum width is 500.

Language

Set a language for viewing content. This property shows results at run-time (in a browser).

Setting this property to -1 (negative one) causes the Forum server control to display topics from all available languages.

ObjectType

Describes the type of forum displayed by this server control.

CommunityGroup - Used for forums inside a Community page.

DiscussionBoard - Used for forums on templates that are not Community pages.

OrderBy

The order of search results. For example, you want to sort search results by last modified date.

Title - The content title (alphabetical).

ID - The content ID number.

Date Created - The date the content was created.

Date Modified - The date the content was most recently modified.

Editor - The user who last edited the content (alphabetical).

Rank - The rank assigned to the content. See Also: Search Result Ranking

Note: The OrderDirection field determines the direction of the search results. For example, if you sort by ID and OrderDirection is set to Descending, the results sort by ContentID number with the highest number at the top of the list.

Warning! Specifying a CustomOrderBy property overrides this property.

OrderDirection

The direction in which search results are sorted. The default is Ascending.

Ascending - Alphabetical results from A to Z; numeric values low to high; dates from oldest to most recent

Descending - Alphabetical results from Z to A; numeric values high to low; dates from most recent to oldest

ProfileLink

Enter a link to the user’s social networking profile page, a part of ektron’s community platform. This allows a user to click another user’s name link or avatar and be taken to the user’s profile page. There are two variables used within the link that represent the user’s ID and the user’s display name.

{0} - represents the user’s ID.

{1} - represents the user’s display name.

You need to have both variables in the link. The Web form can be relative or absolute. Below is an example.

userprofilepage.aspx?uid={0}&dn={1}

The default for this property is ?g=profileu={0}.

When the default for this property is used, users are forwarded to a user’s profile page that is included with the forum control.

ProfileLinkTarget

Determines the type of window that appears on this Web form when a user clicks an item in the Friends control. The default is _self.

_Self - opens in same window

_Top - opens in parent window

_Blank - opens in new window

_Parent - opens in the parent frame

ShowCategories

If set to true, when this server control appears, the user see a Filter by Category option. This option helps a site visitor zero in on relevant content.

If false, the Filter by Category option does not appear.

See Also: Filtering Search Results by Category

SuppressWrapperTags

Suppresses the output of the span/div tags around the control. The default is False.

True - Suppress wrap tags.

False - Allow wrap tags.

TaxonomyCols

Use this property to determine the number of columns on the Taxonomy screen available from this Discussion Board.

In the illustration below, taxonomy categories are arranged in three columns (the default value).

TaxonomyMarkupLanguage

If you want to use an .ekml file to format the Taxonomy screen available from this Discussion Board, enter it here.

If the *.ekml file is located in the same folder as the Web form containing the server control, just enter its name. If the file is in another folder, enter the path relative to site root. For example, \CMS400Developer
\workarea\customfiles\markup\mylistsummary.ekml.

See Also: Controlling Output with Ektron Markup Language

Theme

Enter the custom theme’s folder name. The theme can be relative to the site root or located in the current folder. For example:

Relative - Theme=”/workarea/csslib/themes/winter”

Current Folder - Theme=”mytheme”

If you do not specify a theme, the property uses the location defined by the Discussion Board’s CSS theme property in the Workarea.

See Also: Using a Custom Theme

StyleMenu

FontMenu

ParagraphMenu

TextFormatMenu

LinkMenu

ClipBoardMenu

SymbolsMenu

EmoticonSelect

WMV