PT Social Media Site Configuration

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Overview

The Social Media App uses a custom element to store site specific configurations. Most of these fields will not need to be modified from their default values. There are a few fields that the values will need to be customized for your specific install of the Social Media App. These fields will be listed below.

The fields for the ptSocialMedia 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