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The purpose of this document is to hopefully answer some of the people's questions about how to work with the administration functions on the CyberArmy.net forums.
Forum Options:
There are several options available to the forum administrator that control the way the forum looks and behaves.
- Forum Identifier: This is a unique name that internally identifies the forum, this should ONLY be changed by the CyberArmy forum administrators.
- Forum Name: This is the name that shows up at the top of the forum and in the forum list. This publicly identifies the forum
- Forum Description: This is the description that is shown on the forum list under the forum's name.
- Forum Icon: This is the URL to the small image that shows on the forum list next to the name of the forum.
- Forum Logo: This is the URL to the image that shows on the actual forum, at the top.
- Forum Type: This defines the type of the forum (i.e. brigade, normal, irc, ...). Basically this determines where a forum sits on the main forum listing. This should only be changed by the CyberArmy.net forum administrators.
- Guest Status: This allows you to determine what level of access guests will have to the forum. It specifies whether they are able to just read the contents, to reply to other posts, or to start new threads.
- Allow HTML: This checkbox enables or disables the use of BBCode on the forum. With BBCode you can add formatting and colors to your posts.
- Searchable: This checkbox enables or disables whether the forum can be searched. When it is enabled a search options is offered at the top of the forum.
- Locked: This checkbox locks and unlocks the forum. When the forum is locked only administrators are permitted to post.
- Forum Message of the Day: The message of the day is the message that shows up at the top of the forum page next to the logo.
Forum Access and Privilege Control
Now that the simpler stuff is out of the way we get into the harder part, the administrator, moderator, and access lists. I am covering these together because they function in basically the same way. The main difference is what privileges each one gives:
- Administrator List: This allows you to set the users and groups that have access to the administration page. These users can also act as moderators and delete threads and posts.
- Moderator List: Users and groups in this list are able to delete posts and threads, but do not have access to the administration page. Members or groups on the administrator list also have moderation access and do not need to be added to this list.
- Access List: This sets the list of users or groups that are able to see and use the forum. If an access list is setup, and a user is not included on it, the forum does not show up in their forum list. Administrators and moderators have access to the forum by default and do not need to be named again on the access list.
Also see AccessGroups.
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