•  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

3  General Settings

First section of the Administration Control Panel

---

---