Create a New Forum

Location: Content Management/Forums/Duplicate Existing Forum -> Forum Editor

Overview: Create Forums for your members or students to be able to have an environment to share discussions. 

• Summary of Steps to Create a New Forum
• Overview of the Forum Editor

Summary of Steps  to Create a New Forum:

1. Navigate to Content Management/Forums
2. Find an existing forum and click once to access view mode
3. In view mode click on the duplicate icon to create a new forum
4. In the newly created forum, update or fill in the following fields.
   1. Name
   2. Description for the forum
   3. Assign a contact to be your forum Administrator
   4. Review the setting to show the Administrator's name and email to the public
   5. Set the Published setting to yes so when you put it on a page it will show.
   6. Review the Settings section
   7. Click Save and Close

Overview of the Forum Editor:

• New or Duplicate – General Section ->
  • Give it a Name
  • Give it a Description
  • Assign Administrator
  • Set yes/no value for showing the administrator’s name on the forum when the administrator posts.
  • Set Forum published setting to yes/no
• Appearance
  • At the moment, the forum appearance section is set by the Full Partner staff.
  • Once set, the appearance section will carry over when a forum is duplicated.

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Related Topics:

• Add a Forum to a Page
• Create a Discussion in a Forum
• Create a Thread within a Forum Discussion
• Forum Participants Post and Reply to Posts in Forums