Website visitors post messages and comments, others follow up with replies. Replies can be followed up with further replies forming threads of conversation. Discussion Forums can be public or private and are generally formed around specific interests, groups or subjects.  This feature provides visitors the ability to interact with each other or with specified groups. Includes searchable archives making this feature ideal for propagating user self-help groups. Powerful hyperlink insert tool makes this a serious community builder.

 

Press release benefits include:

 

• Permits discussions to be public or private.

 

• Permitted users can open as many on-line discussions as desired from anywhere, anytime.

 

• Discussions can be organized by topic.

 

• Permanently archives and becomes part of the organization’s knowledgebase.

 

• Discussion archives may be searched and sorted by words or phrases. Conversation threads may be followed from matching records.

 

• Hyperlink insert tool allows discussion participants to redirect others to specific resources on the internet.

 

Some of the components, fields and settings of the Discussion Forums feature, discussed in detail in this chapter, are:

 

Discussion Topics

Discussion Management Pages

Discussion ID Field

Title Field

Created Date Range Fields

Last Modified Date Range Fields

Topics Field

Items Per Page Field

Discussion Page

Title

Text

Replies

Found Discussions Page

Title Field -

Discussion Text Field

Created By Field

Modified By Field

Active Field

Expires Date Field

Chapter ID Field

Level Field

Topic Field

Private Field

Discussion Replies Link