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Jive Forums
Administrators’ Guide
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Jive Forums Administrators’ Guide
© 2004 Jive Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2004
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Jive Forums Administrators’ Guide
© 2004 Jive Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
All rights reserved.
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Jive Forums Administrators’ Guide
© 2004 Jive Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents
1.0 About this Document ........................................................... 11
1.1 Who Should Use this Guide?......................................................11
1.2 Document Conventions...............................................................12
2.0 About Community-Based Discussion ................................... 13
2.1 Community Hierarchy .................................................................13
Category .......................................................................................14
Forums .........................................................................................14
Threads.........................................................................................14
Messages .....................................................................................15
2.2 Community Roles ........................................................................15
Administrators and Moderators .................................................15
Users and Groups........................................................................16
3.0 Before You Get Started ........................................................ 17
3.1 Plan Your Community .................................................................17
3.2 The Admin Console .....................................................................18
Navigation Tabs...........................................................................19
System..........................................................................................19
Settings ........................................................................................22
Content .........................................................................................23
Users/Groups ...............................................................................23
Skin ...............................................................................................24
Reports .........................................................................................24
NNTP ............................................................................................25
3.3 About Permissions ......................................................................25
Administrative Permissions........................................................26
User and Content Permissions ...................................................27
Default Content Permissions ......................................................29
4.0 Create and Manage Categories and Forums......................... 30
4.1 Categories .................................................................................... 30
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Add a Category or Subcategory .................................................30
Delete a Category ........................................................................31
Edit a Category’s Name and Description ...................................32
Edit a Category’s Extended Properties.......................................32
Grant New Category Permissions ..............................................33
Remove Category Permissions...................................................34
Add a Category Administrator....................................................34
Remove a Category Administrator.............................................35
View Category Summary List .....................................................35
4.2 Forums .........................................................................................36
Add a Forum ................................................................................36
Delete a Forum ............................................................................36
Move a Forum to Another Category ..........................................37
Edit a Forum’s Name and Description .......................................37
Edit a Forum’s Extended Properties...........................................38
Remove Forum Permissions.......................................................39
Add a Forum Administrator or Moderator ................................40
Remove a Forum Administrator or Moderator..........................40
View a List of Current Forums ....................................................41
4.3 Forum Filters and Interceptors ...................................................41
Add a Forum Filter.......................................................................42
Add a Forum Filter Class.............................................................42
Reorder, Change or Remove Forum Filters ...............................43
Add a Forum Interceptor.............................................................43
Add a New Forum Interceptor Class ..........................................44
Reorder, Change or Remove Forum Interceptors .....................45
4.4 Additional Forum Management .................................................46
Merge Two Forums .....................................................................46
4.5 Threads.........................................................................................47
Edit Thread Properties.................................................................47
Delete a Thread............................................................................47
Move a Thread.............................................................................48
Lock a Thread...............................................................................48
Add Extended Properties to a Thread ........................................49
4.6 Moderate Forum Content............................................................50
View Forums That You Moderate...............................................50
Accept or Reject Pending Messages without Editing ...............51
