Creative Commons License © tsfm.net Joomlaboard Manual For v1.1.5 HelpAndManual_illegal_keygen Joomlaboard Manual2 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net Table of Contents Part I Introduction 3 31 License Part II Front-end User Guide 4 51 PART 1 - Your Forum's Home Page 72 PART 2a - Your Forum's Flat View 103 PART 2b - Your Forum's Threaded View 134 PART 3a - The Flat View of a Post 165 PART 3b - The Threaded View of a Post 186 Part 4a - Making a new post 217 Part 4b - Replying to an existing post 258 Part 5 - Your Forum Profile Page 289 Part 6 - Selecting an avatar 3010 Part 7 - Understanding Bulletin Board Code Part III Moderation & Review Guide 35 Part IV Administration Guide 37 371 Joomlaboard Control Panel 392 Joomlaboard Configuration Area 39Basics Tab 40Frontend Tab 42Security Tab 42Avatars Tab 43Uploads Tab 44Show Ranking Tab 44Integration Tab 463 Joomlaboard Administration Area 474 Joomlaboard User Profile Manager 475 Uploaded Files Browser 476 Uploaded Images Browser 487 Joomlaboard Template CSS Editor 488 Prune Forums Area Part V Install Guide 49 Part VI Upgrade Guide 50 Part VII Joomlaboard FAQs 51 Introduction 3 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net 1 Introduction This document is a copy of the Joomlaboard online documentation available here: http://www.tsmf.net/content/category/4/14/33/ The information was simply copied and output in PDF and CHM formats for the FireBoard community. Minor formatting changes were made, but the content is virtually identical. Note: This is not new FireBoard official documentation. This is just a small step to help the people who are new to FireBoard and Joomlaboard during the transitional development period. Some documentation is better than no documentation. Having PDF and CHM is better than just online documentation. It is my understanding that the FireBoard Documentation Team will produce documentation when FireBoard is stable. Makes sense to me. Hard to chase a moving target. You end up writing things multiple times. Regards. Ken McDonald (kenmcd) 1.1 License Documentation Here you'll find all documentation regarding Joomlaboard provided by tsmf. Most of our documentation is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License, this license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon our work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit us and license their new creations under the identical terms. 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Joomlaboard Manual4 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net 2 Front-end User Guide PART 1 - Your Forum's Home Page PART 2a - Your Forum's Flat View PART 2b - Your Forum's Threaded View PART 3a - The Flat View of a Post PART 3b - The Threaded View of a Post Part 4a - Making a new post Part 4b - Replying to an existing post Part 5 - Your Forum Profile Page Part 6 - Selecting an avatar Part 7 - Understanding Bulletin Board Code Front-end User Guide 5 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net 2.1 PART 1 - Your Forum's Home Page The forum home page is the first page you come to after clicking on the site's forum menu item, and it's also where you come to if you click the "home" link/icon in the forum's top menu. It gives you a quick overview of what's available - categories, forums etc - so you can decide where to go for information. A - Forum search Use this to search through the forum for a specific word or short phrase. eg. click in the box, type a word or short phrase and press your keyboard's enter key - the search results will appear with successful results in bold text. Click on the bold text entry, and you'll be taken to that particular post. If you have no luck finding something on your first try - don't give up. Be less specific and more general, or try words with a similar meaning. B - Board title This is the title of your board, and should probably reflect your site - eg. what your site is about, theme, content etc. You set this title via the admin configuration area. C - Main menu * Home - Clicking on this link takes you to the forum's home page. * My Profile - Click on this to set up personal preferences for the forum - eg. give yourself an avatar (little picture) or set a signature that appears at the bottom of every post you make. More on this later. * Show latest posts - this area allows you to view the latest posts based on specific time variables. * Help - Has some quick and useful information on using bulletin board code etc. * Rules - This is where people can read the rules of expected conduct on your forum. You can enable/disable this feature via the admin configuration area, and you insert your own rules by editing the rules.php file. D - Category name Think of a category as a "container" for a number of forums. In a way, it's a means to group and describe a number of similar forums within a single over-arching concept. For example, I usually have a forum category called "Housekeeping", and within that category I have forums called "Site Suggestions" and "Bug Reports" - the common theme is web site maintenance (housekeeping) - but Joomlaboard Manual6 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net they're very different forums in terms of content. E - Forum name This is a forum name - click on it and the forum with it's topic list will open up. There are 2 forums defined here. F - Forum description This is a brief description of the forum - it gives you an idea as to where to post something. If you can't make up your mind - most forum operators tend to have a fairly general forum :) G - New post indicator This column contains little exclamation marks - they're indicators as to whether there are any new posts in the corresponding forum. The site's administrator may use different indicators, or graphics - but their job is still the same. You'll only see these if you're a logged in, registered member of the site though - as this function relies on cookies. H - Topics This indicates the number of different topics in the forum. I - Replies This indicates the number of replies in the forum. If you consider the number of topics and replies as a ratio - you'll get an idea of how active/busy/inefficient a forum is. J - Last post details Indicates the date, time and name of the last post on the forum. K - Newest post Clicking on the little page graphic will take you to the latest (newest) post in that forum. L - Mark read Mark all forums read - clicking on this will change all of the exclamation marks in the column marked "G" to show that there are no new unread posts. This is particularly useful on busy forums if you've been offline for a bit and are unable to catch up on all of the reading. M - Indicator key This is an explanation of the colour/icon coding used to show whether there are new posts (see "G") in a forum since your last visit. N - Version/copyright details This is the software version number and copyright details. You must leave these intact - for various reasons - including the occasional need to quote a version number when seeking help, and legal requirements associated with copyright laws. Front-end User Guide 7 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net 2.2 PART 2a - Your Forum's Flat View When clicking on a forum name on the home page, you'll enter the actual forum. If it's set to "flat view" this is basically what the forum will look like:- A - Forum search Use this to search through the forum for a specific word or short phrase. eg. click in the box, type a word or short phrase and press your keyboard's enter key - the search results will appear with successful results in bold text. Click on the bold text entry, and you'll be taken to that particular post. If you have no luck finding something on your first try - don't give up. Be less specific and more general, or try words with a similar meaning. B - Board title This is the title of your board, and should probably reflect your site - eg. what your site is about, theme, content etc. You set this title via the admin configuration area. C - Main menu This menu is slightly different to that which appears on the forum's home page. * Home - Clicking on this link takes you to the forum's home page. * My Profile - Click on this to set up personal preferences for the forum - eg. give yourself an Joomlaboard Manual8 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net avatar (little picture) or set a signature that appears at the bottom of every post you make. More on this later. * Threaded view - click this to change from the current flat view to the alternative threaded view of the forum. * Pending/No pending messages - click this to review posts that must be approved prior to publishing. A common misconception is this link is related to myPMS - it's not though :) * Help - Has some quick and useful information on using bulletin board code etc. * Rules - This is where people can read the rules of expected conduct on your forum. You can enable/disable this feature via the admin configuration area, and you insert your own rules by editing the rules.php file. D - Post new topic link/button Press this to post a new topic on the forum. E - Page This is where pagination is listed, enabling forum visitors to skip from one page to another. F - Boardwalk This indicates the path you follow while moving through the forum setup, and you can click on the various links to move back up the path you've traveled. You can also change the word "Boardwalk" via the forum's language file if you want. G - New indicator column This column contains little exclamation marks - they're indicators as to whether there are any new posts/replies to existing posts. The site's administrator may use different indicators, or graphics - but their job is still the same. You'll only see these if you're a logged in, registered member of the site though - as this function relies on cookies. H - Sticky indicator column Think of a "Sticky Topic" as a post-it note - it will stay at the top of the forum's list of topics. This is useful if you have something important you want everyone to see - rather than losing it down the list of new topic entries. You can see on this forum that the topic "Hello" has the "Sticky Topic" indicator next to it. I - Topic icon column This is where the little topic icons selected while making a post are shown. They may be used on a forum to indicate questions or other themes. J - Topics column This is the topic title. The topic title is hyperlinked, and clicking on it will open up the post for reading. K - Replies column The number of replies to the corresponding post. L - Views column The total number of view for the corresponding post. M - Author column The name of the initial post's author. N - Last post column Details of the latest reply for the post - includes the date, time and author. 0 - Most recent post indicator column Click this icon to go to the most recent post for the corresponding topic. Front-end User Guide 9 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net P - Jump box Use this to jump directly to other forums, rather than using the Boardwalk to move upwards and then across into other forums. Q - Post new topic link/button See item "D" above. R - Mark this forum read Mark all posts in the forum as read - clicking on this will change all of the exclamation marks in the column marked "G" to show that there are no new unread posts. This is particularly useful on busy forums if you've been offline for a bit and are unable to catch up on all of the reading. S - Indicator key This is an explanation of the colour/icon coding used to show whether there are new posts (see "G") in a forum since your last visit. Joomlaboard Manual10 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net 2.3 PART 2b - Your Forum's Threaded View If, after leaving the forum's home page for a specific forum - and the forum is set to "threaded view" - you'll have a very different look to the forum as can be seen by the image below. Most of the information is essentially the same, however there are differences in how it is laid out and presented. A - Forum search Use this to search through the forum for a specific word or short phrase. eg. click in the box, type a word or short phrase and press your keyboard's enter key - the search results will appear with successful results in bold text. Click on the bold text entry, and you'll be taken to that particular post. If you have no luck finding something on your first try - don't give up. Be less specific and more general, or try words with a similar meaning. B - Board title This is the title of your board, and should probably reflect your site - eg. what your site is about, theme, content etc. You set this title via the admin configuration area. [...]... Moderator when assigning Moderators to a Forum Assign Moderators to a forum Open Components- >Joomlaboard Forum->Forum Administration Select the Forum to which you want to assign Moderators If this Forum hasn't got Moderation enabled on it yet, do so first and save the changes Once Moderation on a Forum is enabled, you'll see a list of Moderators on this Forum Before the first assignment has been made,... License © tsfm.net 18 2.6 Joomlaboard Manual Part 4a - Making a new post With time and lots of forum posts, it's easy to forget that making a post can be an intimidating process for people new to online communities Bulletin board code, smilies and attachments can seem terribly complex - yet they're very easy to master A - Forum search Use this to search through the forum for a specific word or short... receiving emails notifications too This is to prevent a flood of emails to admins on busy forums Post Review before publishing Post review give you extra control over Joomlaboard, as it allows you to review all posts before they are published Open Components- >Joomlaboard Forum->Forum Administration Click on the forum name, and open the Advanced Tab The last item is where you define whether or not you... column Details of the latest reply for the post - includes the date, time and author M - Jump box Creative Commons License © tsfm.net 12 Joomlaboard Manual Use this to jump directly to other forums, rather than using the Boardwalk to move upwards and then across into other forums N - Post new topic link/button See item "D" above O - Mark this forum read Mark all posts in the forum as read - clicking on this... where you'll see a list of forums you're responsible for As a site super admin, you'll automatically have moderator status on all forums - so you won't actually see a list Creative Commons License © tsfm.net 28 2.9 Joomlaboard Manual Part 6 - Selecting an avatar 1 Avatar selection - Ready-made or made to order When you click on the select new avatar link in the Joomlaboard forum profile area, you'll... to forums (not categories) These moderators then have extended privileges on those forums only They will be regular users on other forums! To grant someone Moderator privileges, this person must: 1 Have a valid account on your site; 2 Have a user profile on your Joomlaboard Forum It is simple to get the latter; all registered users will receive a profile automatically upon first entry of your JB Forum... But remember: They must always enter the forum at least once after being logged in, before you can add them as a Moderator at all! Make Someone a Moderator To make someone a moderator the administrator must flag a registered user with a JB Forum profile as a Moderator In order to do this: go to Components- >Joomlaboard Forum->User Administration In here, search for the person you want to make moderator... you to the forum's home page * My Profile - Click on this to set up personal preferences for the forum - eg give yourself an avatar (little picture) or set a signature that appears at the bottom of every post you make More on this later * Help - Has some quick and useful information on using bulletin board code etc * Rules - This is where people can read the rules of expected conduct on your forum You... have Community Builder integration enabled If so, please refer to Community Builder documentation as a starting point A - Forum search Use this to search through the forum for a specific word or short phrase eg click in the box, type a Creative Commons License © tsfm.net 26 Joomlaboard Manual word or short phrase and press your keyboard's enter key - the search results will appear with successful results... These buttons enable you to achieve HTML coding effects through the press of a button before and after the text to be affected For more information on using board code - read the help page listed on the forum's top menu K - Text effects This extends upon board code, and enables you to change the size and colour of your forum signature L - bbCode help As you move your mouse over the bb code buttons, you'll . License © tsfm.net Joomlaboard Manual For v1. 1. 5 HelpAndManual_illegal_keygen Joomlaboard Manual2 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net Table of Contents Part I Introduction 3 31 License Part II Front-end. User Guide 4 51 PART 1 - Your Forum's Home Page 72 PART 2a - Your Forum's Flat View 10 3 PART 2b - Your Forum's Threaded View 13 4 PART 3a - The Flat View of a Post 16 5 PART 3b. Alike 2 .5 License. Joomlaboard Manual4 Creative Commons License © tsfm.net 2 Front-end User Guide PART 1 - Your Forum's Home Page PART 2a - Your Forum's Flat View PART 2b - Your Forum's