PT Forums Site Configuration

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. Portlet UI Theme - The Portlet app utilizes jQueryUI Themes for styling of buttons, etc. There are some pre-installed themes that come with the ADF in the Thirdparty folder.
2. ADD POD WIZARD URL - Site relative URL for the Add Pod Wizard page. (Example: /webadmin/portletadmin/lightbox/AddPodWizard.cfm)
3. ADD POD WIZARD STEP2 URL - Site relative URL for the Add Pod Wizard Step 2 page. (Example: /webadmin/portletadmin/lightbox/AddPodWizard2.cfm)
4. ADD POD WIZARD TYPE EXCLUDE LIST - A comma-delimited list of Pod Types that should not be offered to user in the Add Pod Wizard. (Example: Links,Simple_Content,Custom_File)
5. POD TYPE WEATHER RSS URL - An RSS Weather Feed URL minus the Zip Code. Zip Code provided by user. (Example: http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p= )
6. POD TYPE RSS FEED ALLOWED HTML LIST - HTML Tags that should not be removed from RSS feeds. (Example: em,strong,b,i,br,table,tbody,thead,tfoot,tr,td,div,span,hr,li,ul,ol,a,u)
7. POD TYPE CUSTOM FILE URL - Site relative URL for the directory where Pod Custom Files are stored. Should be .cfm files. (Example: /ADF/apps/pt_portlet/customcf/pod_custom_files/)