•  Summary

• 1 • First steps with the forum
• 2 • The Administration Control Panel
• 3 • General Settings
• • 3.1 • General settings
  • • 3.1.1 • The forum general settings
    • • 3.1.1.1 • Name of the forum
      • 3.1.1.2 • Logo of the forum
      • 3.1.1.3 • Logo URL
      • 3.1.1.4 • Number of topics per page
      • 3.1.1.5 • Number of messages per page
      • 3.1.1.6 • Flags limit for the forum
      • 3.1.1.7 • Time Zone (in hour)
      • 3.1.1.8 • Appearance of your forum in the full forum list
      • 3.1.1.9 • Default language
      • 3.1.1.10 • Friendly forum URL(rewriting mode)
      • 3.1.1.11 • Forum Root :( super administrator)
      • 3.1.1.12 • Forum Directory Access
      • 3.1.1.13 • Force the automatic redirection to the default forum URL
      • 3.1.1.14 • Maximum width, height and size of avatars :( super administrator)
      • 3.1.1.15 • Maximum width, height and size of personal smileys :( super administrator)
      • 3.1.1.16 • Allowing smileys in poll
      • 3.1.1.17 • Limiting words characters
      • 3.1.1.18 • Rating system activation (stars)
      • 3.1.1.19 • Email Contact :( super administrator)
      • 3.1.1.20 • Cookies Directory Access
      • 3.1.1.21 • Sharing Forum Databases (super administrator)
      • 3.1.1.22 • Welcome Message
      • 3.1.1.23 • Forum Rules
      • 3.1.1.24 • Rating System Activation (Stars)
      • 3.1.1.25 • Contact Lists Management
      • 3.1.1.26 • Authorize member with multiple alias to post
      • 3.1.1.27 • Deactivate private messages
      • 3.1.1.28 • Shorten the page title when viewing a topic
      • 3.1.1.29 • Add branch to the tree-structured menu
      • 3.1.1.30 • Display the list of the forums on the server in the tree-structured menu.
      • 3.1.1.31 • Deactivate the search engine
    • 3.1.2 • Change the default colors
    • 3.1.3 • Graphism
    • 3.1.4 • Graphism (complementary information)
    • • 3.1.4.1 • The frame skins
      • 3.1.4.2 • Import/Export a graphical template
    • 3.1.5 • Icon Management
    • 3.1.6 • Forum counter
    • 3.1.7 • Close the forum
    • 3.1.8 • Daily statistics
    • 3.1.9 • Moderation Activity Statistics
    • 3.1.10 • Predefined Moderation motives
  • 3.2 • Forum Display
  • • 3.2.1 • Default Toolbar
    • 3.2.2 • Modifying the appearance
    • 3.2.3 • Link "Inform the moderators about this message"
    • 3.2.4 • Personal Quote Management
    • 3.2.5 • Avatar Management
    • 3.2.6 • Signature Management
    • • 3.2.6.1 • Image Display with the [img] tag in signatures
    • 3.2.7 • Polls Management
    • 3.2.8 • Smileys Management
    • 3.2.9 • Image Size Display
    • 3.2.10 • Image Size Display
  • 3.3 • Advanced
  • • 3.3.1 • Member List
    • 3.3.2 • Member Level Activation
    • 3.3.3 • Member Level Management
    • 3.3.4 • Personnalisation des titres HTML
    • 3.3.5 • Messages de bienvenue
  • 3.4 • Super administrators
  • • 3.4.1 • Access path and cookies
    • 3.4.2 • General settings (super administrator)
    • • 3.4.2.1 • Complementary Information field
      • 3.4.2.2 • Help description
      • 3.4.2.3 • Display on the homepage the total number of members for all forums
      • 3.4.2.4 • Display on the homepage the total number of posted messages for all forums
      • 3.4.2.5 • Enable the search engine for all forums
      • 3.4.2.6 • Images Host
      • 3.4.2.7 • Absolute path to upload images
      • 3.4.2.8 • Chemin des fichiers auto-générés
      • 3.4.2.9 • Maximum number of Personal Smileys
      • 3.4.2.10 • Maximum number of smileys per message
      • 3.4.2.11 • Authorize/Forbid the [size] and [centrer] tags
      • 3.4.2.12 • Display graphical theme on all pages
      • 3.4.2.13 • Number of identification icons for messages
      • 3.4.2.14 • Forbid email and password changes
      • 3.4.2.15 • Link to the server monitoring / Daily image monitoring
      • 3.4.2.16 • Ask for newsletter subscription
      • 3.4.2.17 • Sending emails, setting the SMTP server
      • 3.4.2.18 • Deactivate slave-to-master synchronization
      • 3.4.2.19 • Deactivate slave-to-master synchronization
    • 3.4.3 • Default Forum (super administrator)
    • 3.4.4 • Validate all subscriptions? (Super administrator)
    • 3.4.5 • Design/Integration Management (super administrator)
    • • 3.4.5.1 • Banner Modifications
      • 3.4.5.2 • Daily Intermediate Page
    • 3.4.6 • Images Directory (super administrator)
• 4 • Categories
• • 4.1 • Categories :
  • • 4.1.1 • Category order
    • 4.1.2 • Adding a category
    • • 4.1.2.1 • Name
      • 4.1.2.2 • Category type
      • 4.1.2.3 • Description
      • 4.1.2.4 • Password (for private categories)
      • 4.1.2.5 • Announcement (optional)
      • 4.1.2.6 • Visible
      • 4.1.2.7 • Restricted Forum access to members
      • 4.1.2.8 • Organize topics by creation date
      • 4.1.2.9 • Authorize members to edit their messages
      • 4.1.2.10 • Authorized number of revisions
      • 4.1.2.11 • Number of messages in a topic setting the limit to the topic deletion
      • 4.1.2.12 • Forbid member to create topics
      • 4.1.2.13 • A priori Moderation
      • 4.1.2.14 • Authorize anonymous messages
      • 4.1.2.15 • Default avatar for non-logged in visitors
      • 4.1.2.16 • URL rewriting setting
      • 4.1.2.17 • Use the category design:
    • 4.1.3 • Modify the categories
    • 4.1.4 • Delete categories
    • 4.1.5 • Move a category
    • 4.1.6 • Multi categories settings
  • 4.2 • Sub-categories
  • • 4.2.1 • Sub category groups
    • 4.2.2 • Sub category order
    • 4.2.3 • Add a sub category
    • • 4.2.3.1 • Name :
      • 4.2.3.2 • Visibility on the homepage
      • 4.2.3.3 • Hide sub category in topic list
      • 4.2.3.4 • Parent group
      • 4.2.3.5 • URL Rewriting Setting
      • 4.2.3.6 • Link to another sub Category
    • 4.2.4 • Modify sub categories
    • • 4.2.4.1 • Automatic Topic prefixing [name_of_the_subcat]
      • 4.2.4.2 • Choosing a sub category
      • 4.2.4.3 • Sub Category Dynamic Listing
      • 4.2.4.4 • Hide Groups when a user is browsing a sub category
      • 4.2.4.5 • Default sub category
      • 4.2.4.6 • Automatic redirection
    • 4.2.5 • Delete all sub categories
    • 4.2.6 • Transform a sub category
  • 4.3 • Complementary Options
  • • 4.3.1 • Manage Super Categories
    • 4.3.2 • Managing RSS Feeds
    • 4.3.3 • Forbid category access
    • 4.3.4 • Topics with stickers
• 5 • Advanced
• • 5.1 • Moderation, administration
  • • 5.1.1 • Moderation/administration Logs
    • 5.1.2 • The Forum Moderators
    • 5.1.3 • The Forum Administrators
    • 5.1.4 • The Forum Super Administrators
  • 5.2 • Technical Management
  • • 5.2.1 • Rebuilding the topic list
    • 5.2.2 • Purge the forum
  • 5.3 • Rights Management
  • • 5.3.1 • Group Management
    • 5.3.2 • VIP Members by category
  • 5.4 • Limitations
  • • 5.4.1 • Words: auto replacement, banned
    • 5.4.2 • Antiflood Settings
    • 5.4.3 • Anti SMS
  • 5.5 • Forum Management
  • • 5.5.1 • Create a new forum (super administrator)
    • 5.5.2 • Delete a forum (super administrator)
  • 5.6 • Advanced Options
  • • 5.6.1 • Edit a member profile
    • 5.6.2 • Manage keywords and personal smileys (super administrator)
    • 5.6.3 • Retrieve a password (super administrator)
    • 5.6.4 • IP Blocking (super administrator)
    • 5.6.5 • Smileys Management
    • 5.6.6 • Delete a member (super administrator)
    • 5.6.7 • Delete avatar or personal smiley (super administrator)
    • 5.6.8 • Edit a nickname
    • 5.6.9 • Multiple log in management (super administrator)
    • 5.6.10 • Borrow a nickname (super administrator)
• 6 • Appendix
• • 6.1 • Validations
  • • 6.1.1 • Subscription validation
    • 6.1.2 • Smiley and image validation
    • 6.1.3 • Signature Validation
  • 6.2 • Newsletter
  • • 6.2.1 • The interface
    • 6.2.2 • Newsletter Types
    • • 6.2.2.1 • Newsletter type name
      • 6.2.2.2 • Sender address
      • 6.2.2.3 • Message displayed during the subscription process
      • 6.2.2.4 • Checked by default, delete, validate, and preview
    • 6.2.3 • Newsletters
    • • 6.2.3.1 • Compose a newsletter
      • 6.2.3.2 • Newsletter Management
      • 6.2.3.3 • Sending parameters
      • 6.2.3.4 • Sending a newsletter
      • 6.2.3.5 • Managing sending logs
    • 6.2.4 • Show the CSV files directories.
  • 6.3 • Search Engine Optimization Pack
  • • 6.3.1 • Google sitemaps
    • 6.3.2 • Related Topics
• 7 • Conclusion

1  First steps with the forum

Below, you can observe the different layout that you will get once logged in as an administrator

Compared to a classic user, an administrator obviously gets more options

As you can see, the three main options are displayed on the top bar above the root menu. The fourth option (private section) appears at the bottom. We will detail each of them.

• Access to the administration panel : this will directly link you to the administration control panel from where you can manage all the forum options

• Images approval : this will link you to the page where you can approve or disapprove images (avatars or smileys) See details about images approval.

• Subscriptions Approval: this will link you to the page where you can manage new members’ subscription. You can decide whether you approve new nickname creations See more details about this approval process.

• Signatures Approval: this will link you to the page where you can approve or disapprove signatures (avatar and smileys) See more details about this approval process.

• Access to the section reserved to moderators / administrators / super administrators: Only members with one of these statuses can access this section. This place was created to straighten coherence and to develop a team spirit.