PT Forums Site Configuration

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Overview

The Forum App uses a custom element to store site specific configurations.

The fields for the ptForum Configuration custom element are defined below.

Configuration Fields

There are several Configuration Fields:

  1. CS USERS DSN - Where the Forums will get the Users and Groups info for Read,Post,Edit and Admin access to the site. (Example: commonspot-users)
  2. Forum UI Theme - The Forums app utilizes jQueryUI Themes for styling of buttons, etc. There are some pre-installed themes that come with the ADF in the Thirdparty folder.
  3. FORUM HOME URL - The URL for the HOME link in the forum pages. This can be the Forum home URL to go to the Categories page or the home of your site (Default: index.cfm - default page in the Forums Subsite)
  4. FORUM TOPICS URL - The CS Page for the Topics Listing page
  5. FORUM THREADS URL - The CS Page for the Threads Listing page
  6. FORUM MESSAGES URL - The CS Page for the Messages Listing page
  7. NEW MESSAGE URL - The CS Lightbox Page that forum users use to add new messages
  8. NEW THREAD URL - The CS Lightbox Page that forum users use to add new threads
  9. MANAGE NEW MESSAGE URL - The webadmin CS Lightbox Page to allow forum administrators to create new messages
  10. MANAGE NEW THREAD URL - - The webadmin CS Lightbox Page to allow forum administrators to create new threads
  11. SUBSCRIPTION FROM EMAIL - The FROM email address for thread subscription post notifications
  12. UNSUBSCRIBE CONFIRM URL - URL for the lightbox unsubscribe confirmation CS page
  13. UNSUBSCRIBE DASHBOARD URL - URL for the user subscription dashboard CS page
  14. AUTO SUBSCRIBE USERS - Users that will be auto-subscribed when a new thread is created