Operation Manual

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To manage your forum:
• Select the forum and click
Manage from the context toolbar.
• To explore the available options, scroll down and click Help at the
bottom of the dialog.
Forum security
By default, your forum is created with the Add new users on signup
feature enabled, which means you don't need to do anything except
moderate forum content when needed. Forum contributors simply
register and enter their own login details to post or reply to topics.
Technically, a forum uses a User List Smart object for access control,
which is created along with your forum if you have the Access Control
(New) option checked (see above).
Remember that a forum is a Smart Object itself! It is possible to use the
User List Smart object to manage forum users in several ways:
• Manually add users. You can add a set of users for private forums
rather than have new users sign up by themselves.
• Ban/suspend users. In a lively debating environment, there's often
the need for some timely moderation to keep forum contributor's
on-topic and adhering to "house" rules. You're able to ban or
suspend users accordingly.
To manually add forum users:
1. Select Smart Object from the Insert menu.
2. From the Smart Objects library list, select the User List smart object
of the same name as your forum.
3. Click Manage.