PT Forum Overview

About Forums App

The Forums application is built in the Application Development Framework (ADF).

Overview

The Forums application provides the ability to create an online message board inside a CommonSpot site. Also, with the option to integrate it with other ADF applications, like PT Profiles.

With this application users can post and manage multiple Forum Categories, Topics and Threads. Discussions are organized into categories, topics and then threads. Categories are the top level buckets and work as the forum landing pages. As an example each department in an organization can be assigned a category. Inside of each Category can be multiple topics. Within each topic, messages are added to threads.

Requirements

ADF Library components that are required for the Profile:

• CEData_1_0
• CSData_1_0
• Data_1_0
• Date_1_0
• Forms_1_0
• Scripts_1_0
• CCAPI

The ADF must be configured correctly for your site. The Site Configuration wiki page has instructions for configuration.

Contents

The Forums application contains the following:

• Custom Coding - various components and scripts.
• CommonSpot Components:
  • Forums Categories - Custom Element
  • Forums Topics - Custom Element
  • Forums Threads - Custom Element
  • Forums Messages - Custom Element
  • Forums User Settings - Custom Element
  • ptForums Configuration - Custom Element

'Note:' Elements may contain one or more: Render Handlers or Custom Field Types. They do NOT use Display Templates.

Pre-installation Considerations

The ADF must be setup and configured on the server for the site that will be implementing the Profile application. For detailed instructions follow the ADF Overview wiki page for Site Configurations.

This installation guide assumes that you have no Custom Elements/Metadata Forms with the names above. Before the install, remove any Custom Elements/Metadata Forms with the names listed in the "Contents" section above. (If you do not remove existing elements with these names, you may have difficulties during the installation.)

Installation/Setup

Each of the following steps should be completed fully and in the order presented:

1. PT Forums ADF Configuration
2. Extract PT Forums Application
3. Styles
4. Import Custom Elements
5. Site Configuration
6. Build Templates/Pages
7. CCAPI Setup

Features

The Forums application provides the following features:

• Lightbox

Guides

• Getting Started

Known Issues/Bugs

Found a bug, view the Known Issues/Bugs wiki page. Your issue not on the list? Then post it so the issue can be addressed.