Discussion Boards

The Discussion Board feature provides an opportunity for topic discussions on your Web site. A site or membership user with Add Topic permission creates a topic and posts a starter question. Site visitors can then reply.

An example of a Discussion Board is below. As you can see, the first screen has general topics, the second screen’s topics are more specific, and a third screen displays posts to the forum.

See Screen Sample

As an administrator, you can determine the following Discussion Board features.

The subjects being discussed

A starter post, which initiates a discussion

If users must sign in before posting to the forum

If a post appears as soon as someone submits it, or must be approved first

- If a post requires approval, you can edit or delete it before it appears

Whether or not posts must be approved, anyone with permission to the board can perform the following tasks on a post from the Workarea

edit

delete

reply

This section also contains the following topics.

Hierarchy of Discussion Board Elements

Implementing Discussion Boards

Working with Discussion Boards and Subjects

Working with Forums

Working with Topics

Working with Posts

Restricting an IP Address

Setting Up Post Reporting

Assigning Permissions to a Discussion Board

Sending Notifications for a Discussion Forum Activities

Inserting Discussion Board Server Controls

Using Discussion Boards on Your Web Site

Using Discussion Boards in Community Groups

Discussion Board Server Controls