Discussions and Web Log
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.
Discussions 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 are:
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- 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
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- Discussion Page
- Title
- Text
- Replies
- Found Discussions Page
- Title Field
- Discussion Text Field
- Created By Field
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- Modified By Field
- Active Field
- Expires Date Field
- Chapter ID Field
- Level Field
- Topic Field
- Private Field
- Discussion Replies Link
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