What is it?
- Discussion forum for the visitors of the web site
What can it do?
- Visitors can start new discussion threads or answer already existing entries
- Discussion threads are shown as a tree structure by indenting the next line
- Configuration via templates
- The webmaster can delete entries
- Integration into the user management
- The forum can be searched
- Automatic filter for unwanted words
- Both the webmaster and the author are informed about new entries via e-mail
- Assigning of comments to objects such as articles, documents etc.
- Comments are assigned permanently to the objects, even when these are published again or moved into the archive
What are the benefits?
- Easy implementation of lively, interactive web sites
- Installation by the editor via drag & drop possible
- CI/CD will be observed – even though tried-and-tested standard components are being used
- Assigning to objects enables interrelated use
- Time-saving concept due to e-mail information
- Fast results due to full-text search
- No more unwanted entries
Description
With a forum module on a site, users get the chance to contribute content themselves. The user can start new discussion threads or answer already existing ones. Every new entry to a discussion thread is indented. Users can thus follow the discussion easily.
The editor can adjust the design via templates to the site. The webmaster can be informed about new entries via e-mail. So he can delete unwanted entries if necessary. A list of unwanted words (bad word filter) deletes automatically unwanted entries which the webmaster does not want on his site. He is supported by the notification function. The user can also be notified via e-mail about new entries.
These functions comply with the usual demands on forums.
In addition to that, the forum module – like many other modules of contentXXL – is also available as related forum. Here, a discussion is directly assigned to an object (Content Relationship Management). This object can be e.g. an article, a document or a link. If the object is opened in the single view, the user has the option to join the discussion right away. The title will then automatically be the topic. The advantage: if the discussed article or document is additionally published on other sites, the discussion automatically goes with it – also into the archive. Thus, no information will be lost.
With additional modules, e.g. recommendation ("send to a friend") or rating of the content, it is easy to build a lively Intranet. Making such "Integrated Collaborative Environments" (ICE) available entails a definite surplus value for both the webmaster and the user.